Flavoured Spirits

eamon

Its not difficult. The internet & plumbers merchants are your friends. However you may attract the attention of HMRC. They will not be best pleased.

http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/forum/topic.php?id=4

OwtForNowt

eamon wrote: »

Its not difficult. The internet & plumbers merchants are your friends. However you may attract the attention of HMRC. They will not be best pleased.

http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/forum/topic.php?id=4

Damn that's rubbish.

So am i right i thinking you legally allowed to brew up to 22% abv?

Looks like ill have to keep to that.

ariba10

Many years a go we belonged to a wine making circle and took a wine making magazine.

Every few months or so, they would publish a warning that it was illegal to distill wine to make spirits.

Even the method whereby you put wine in an open dish in the freezer and skimmed off the ice crystals as they formed, leaving a fortified liquid behind.

Former_MSE_Dan

Thanks for letting us know about this Penny.

As the question of the legality was answered and accepted by everyone, and the debate has moved on, we're going to re-open this one

babyshoes

So, back to the original question! If it was me (not that I have ever brewed gin from scratch) I would be worried about putting extra stuff in at the start, so would rather add flavourings to 'infuse' afterwards. We made some LUSH damson gin last year from cheapo gin and excess damsons. It tasted like flavoured petrol at first, but it mellowed nicely and now tastes gorgeous.:dance: :beer: