How do you consume your blackberries?

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Re: How do you consume your blackberries?

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Some of the fancy stuff from £25 per bottle i have seen it for £45, daylight robbery when you can make a gallon of your own for £18.
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What - do you distill your own gin? Really?

No - I meant the price for cheap gin that you would use to make sloe gin or so.
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:flower: Sorry Ina that's my bad grammar, its really cheap spirits i can buy locally :flower:
mind you i would love to have a go if it was legal !!!! but you can make rice wine and grain fermented whisky, i don't know how good it is i might have a go :wink:
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Post: # 293015Post Green Aura »

ina, even the folks that make the craft gins don't distil the alcohol. They buy spirit in, steam the botanicals it, and then either re-distil it or add sugar as a liqueur. (Guess who's just been on a gin tour :wink: :lol:).

Russ, my Dad used to have a recipe called Poor Man's Brandy, which was a wine made from potatoes and I think it had a grain (rice or barley) in it too. Something like this, maybe.

http://www.wine-making-guides.com/potato_wine.html

Not distilled obviously but I seem to remember it was quite potent.
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Thanks for the link it looks a really good recipe, i'm going to try that this week you can never have enough in reserve :shock: :flower:
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Post: # 293027Post old tree man »

That link is great Maggie i got a great recipe for Saki i'm going to try :thumbright: :flower: :flower:
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Green Aura wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 9:48 am ina, even the folks that make the craft gins don't distil the alcohol.
Yeah, I know. But having to buy in the spirit at a minimum of £14 per bottle makes this a very expensive hobby.
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That's true Ina but i tend to make the spirit infusions around now for Christmas time as a treat and some prezzies for family, we make hampers for family made up from all home made products that we have done over the year. :flower:
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I'm "lucky" in a way that I have to make/buy hardly any presents. Few family get calendars (easy to post), even fewer friends mostly get books. Most would rather ignore Christmas (and all that present stress) anyway. So if I make that kind of infusion, I basically "have to" drink it all myself.
But tomorrow I'm getting a kilo of blueberries from work... Yeah, they breed blueberries (and other fruit), so at least we get that relatively cheap!
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:lol: :lol: I must say I struggle I have the urge to drink it all :iconbiggrin:
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Re: How do you consume your blackberries?

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old tree man wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2019 7:50 pm :lol: :lol: I must say I struggle I have the urge to drink it all :iconbiggrin:
That would be my struggle, too! :mrgreen:
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