Making Your Own Booze

Tomorrow I'm going to have a go at some Elderflower gin. I made an elderflower gin liqueur last year by steeping elderflowers and sugar in gin, but this year I want to do it a bit different and make normal gin with it by sticking the flowers in with the other botanicals at the start.

This is the recipe I'll be using:

Ingredients:

13 g juniper berries.
9 g coriander seeds
7 g elderflower
Whole skin of one tangerine.
1/2 lemon (peeled)
1g Angelica
0.1g Orris root
2 black peppercorns
1 L 40% neutral
1 L water

I've got an elderflower tree so lots of elderflower to play around with.
 
Old Tom Gin.

A London Dry style gin that I added a little sugar to and then lightly aged with oak chips from a whisky barrel. As you can see it turned the gin a whisky colour. If you go to the cocktail thread you can see I used it in a few cocktails on Friday and it's a really great gin (it's the tall brown bottle). I'll definitely be making this again.

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I also made some rose gin this summer. Nabbed some rose petals from a friends garden who lives down the road and steeped them for short while. Only enough to fill a 500ml bottle as it was an experiment, but it was really nice. I've still got a little left... but not much! I've been drinking it with raspberry lemonade. It's a lovely drink, will definitely make it again next year.

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@Captainfog these are inspiring.

So for the gin-based stuff. Are you making your own with the recipe from above or purchasing a standard as your base? Also what is neutral? Across the pond translation needed.

Also the moroccan tiles in your kitchen are cool
 
My dad and I homebrew when I visit home, but not seriously. Mostly kits from the local shop. Not even all grain at this point. I'd love to move up to all grain but I don't do it frequently enough, nor do I feel like I have the experience necessary to justify buying the extra equipment. Maybe someday. We have a red ale in the fermenter right now. Hoping to have it bottled and carbed by the time we host our first basement party.
 
I really want to start homebrewing. But my wife can't have gluten and is strongly against me making things she can't also benefit from.
 
Djxfactor511 said:
My dad and I homebrew when I visit home, but not seriously. Mostly kits from the local shop. Not even all grain at this point. I'd love to move up to all grain but I don't do it frequently enough, nor do I feel like I have the experience necessary to justify buying the extra equipment. Maybe someday. We have a red ale in the fermenter right now. Hoping to have it bottled and carbed by the time we host our first basement party.
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It's basically the same equipment unless you decide to keg, which I think is worth the investment for the time saving and quality control alone. There are inexpensive mills to grind your grain.

I haven't brewed in several years but I miss the hobby sometimes. It was a lot of fun when I had a brew partner but jobs separated the partnership c'est la vie

If you ever want some solid recipes / clones I can hook you up
 
jaycee said:
@Captainfog these are inspiring.

So for the gin-based stuff. Are you making your own with the recipe from above or purchasing a standard as your base? Also what is neutral? Across the pond translation needed.

Also the moroccan tiles in your kitchen are cool
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Yep, I'm making everything from scratch. Start with a big tub of water, sugar and yeast!

Neutral spirit is basically vodka. Flavourless alcohol. Lots of booze starts with a neutral spirit that is then flavoured.
 
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