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Alcoholic infusions
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First batch of blackberry brandy made today. Will take about three months. Now patiently waiting for sloe season0
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Blackberries already out?0
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There have been quite a few early ones in my garden.North Lower Neil said:Blackberries already out?
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This one:IdleHans said:What's your recipe, @McBobbin?
It sounds lovely.
Our blackberry brandy recipe
For every 70cl bottle of brandy you’ll need about 320g of blackberries and 160g of sugar. I’m happy to use the cheapest booze I can find – the brandy I bought yesterday was so cheap it came in a plastic bottle.
Put all ingredients into clean, sterilised jars with tight fitting lids and shake. Continue to agitate every day or two for a few weeks before reducing the shake frequency to weekly until you’re ready to strain and bottle. Ideally this would be after three months but it will taste perfectly acceptable a few weeks earlier. As with all fruit liqueurs, the bottled drink will continue to improve with age.
Sounds good anyway! I scaled it up for a litre.
And yep, quite a few blackberries already out. Looks like it might be a bumper long season round me. Not sure what else I can do with them. crumble perhaps.2 -
Will have to take a look then! My four year old can't wait to pick them, and I'm looking forward to the blackberry whiskey!PopIcon said:
There have been quite a few early ones in my garden.North Lower Neil said:Blackberries already out?
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This is very simple and great with blackberries instead of raspberries:McBobbin said:
This one:IdleHans said:What's your recipe, @McBobbin?
It sounds lovely.
Our blackberry brandy recipe
For every 70cl bottle of brandy you’ll need about 320g of blackberries and 160g of sugar. I’m happy to use the cheapest booze I can find – the brandy I bought yesterday was so cheap it came in a plastic bottle.
Put all ingredients into clean, sterilised jars with tight fitting lids and shake. Continue to agitate every day or two for a few weeks before reducing the shake frequency to weekly until you’re ready to strain and bottle. Ideally this would be after three months but it will taste perfectly acceptable a few weeks earlier. As with all fruit liqueurs, the bottled drink will continue to improve with age.
Sounds good anyway! I scaled it up for a litre.
And yep, quite a few blackberries already out. Looks like it might be a bumper long season round me. Not sure what else I can do with them. crumble perhaps.
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My blackberry brandy has matured... Currently filtering it into the bottle. Very, very nice indeed. Just the right amount of sugar in it.
I ate one of the berries and it nearly killed me. Blew my head off. Think I'll keep them.1 -
Bought some green ginger wine going cheap in Aldi's today and infused it with some whisky I found in the cupboard. Very nice, and instant, winter warmer.
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Just made some orange and rosemary infused gin. It really is top notch with tonic1
