Flavoured Spirits

Juliav_2

thanks for all the ideas. just made things worse for myself after finding some frozen blueberries in the freezer.

Going to try and do a blueberry vodka.

250g blueberries pricked
1l bottle vodka
175g caster sugar

Wish me luck?

Bongedone

There was a post a while back using Wetheralls hard toffee. Looked as if would be really nice. I was going to make it but forgot. Thanks for the reminder.

arkonite_babe

There's an old thread for flavoured spirits

I can personally recommend the skittles vodka

I didn't separate the colours though so mine looked a bit manky :lipsrseal

madge7

good luck with the blueberry vodka!!

janeym8

i made lemon and lime vodka with the green and yellow jelly babies from 2 big packets.the vodka that i had to take out to make room for the jelly babies i made strawberry?? vodka with the red coloured ones.to be honest i havent tried either of them but my friend who makes this all the time says its fab.oh and its best to wash the cornflour off of them first.i didnt heat up the jelly babies at all but my friend said if you want them to work quicker to place the bottle of vodka + the JB`S in a basin of hot water.

good luck !!

janey xxx

OwtForNowt

Hi there.

I have just paid around £10 for a Gin home brewing kit.

I was just wondering if I could put anything in to it during the brewing process to add a bit a flavour? I was thinking lime zest or something?

Or would this effect the process?

Thanks

Andy.

Penelope_Penguin

OwtForNowt wrote: »

Hi there.

I have just paid around £10 for a Gin home brewing kit.

That's a new one on me - I thought you weren't allowed to make spirits without making a payment to Cusoms and Excise (HMRC)? Do you have a link to the kit, please?

Take a look at this thread on Flavoured Spirits (I'll merge this later to keep ideas together).

Penny. x

OwtForNowt

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

That's a new one on me - I thought you weren't allowed to make spirits without making a payment to Cusoms and Excise (HMRC)? Do you have a link to the kit, please?

Take a look at this thread on Flavoured Spirits (I'll merge this later to keep ideas together).

Penny. x

Yeah sure.

Its here;

http://www.halfcost.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=11&productId=53765&langId=-1&cache_entry=-1

And thanks for the link.

ManAtHome

Will probably be very weak unless you're planning to distil it... Saw similar kits years ago, but were marketed as "gin and tonic" or similar - strength around 10-12% rather than the distilled 40%.

OwtForNowt

ManAtHome wrote: »

Will probably be very weak unless you're planning to distil it... Saw similar kits years ago, but were marketed as "gin and tonic" or similar - strength around 10-12% rather than the distilled 40%.

Damn, i just seen it takes it up to 22%.

How tough is it to distill?