Orange Brandy
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 1:30 pm
G'day Guy's,
Well about a month ago my missus madeup a Orange infused mulled wine and had a couple of litres left over after the party and surprisingly she asked to go something with it. :scared-eek:
So filtered out the Orange and the mulled herbs and did a few strip runs in my minime but didn't have enough low wines so just added some 90% neutral to top up the boiler for the spirit run. I put the orange and the botanicals back in the boiler for the run too. The smell on the spirit run was very interesting and the first D.P. went close to blowing me away with the taste. :happy-partydance:
Now after that first try I decided to go grab a 5 litre Coolabah Rose goon cask and mulled the mulling herbs and some freshly cut Navel orange slices keeping the heating under 70 C for about 3 hours. Then I filtered out the botanicals and did several strip runs to get the low wines for the spirit run. I threw the orange and the botanicals back in the boiler and in the thumper went some of the original mulling wine mix.
Once again the smell and D.P. was amazing and the final spirit was watered down to 65% and some freshly charred/toasted French Oak was cut from my 2.2kg domino and added.
Now after a few weeks the taste has really started to develop and I'm thinking for such a small run calling it and making a bottle or two.
I do need to go see a few wineries and see if i can get some red wine cheap to strip so I can do a full run over 4 plates in my bubbler setup. In order to get 45 litres of low wines from a red grape based wine I would reckon I'd need close to 100 litres of red wine. So with many wineries close by I'm sure one may come to the party.
Anyway if you have a small pot still setup this is worth trying as the result is simply stunning.
Cheers Bryan
Well about a month ago my missus madeup a Orange infused mulled wine and had a couple of litres left over after the party and surprisingly she asked to go something with it. :scared-eek:
So filtered out the Orange and the mulled herbs and did a few strip runs in my minime but didn't have enough low wines so just added some 90% neutral to top up the boiler for the spirit run. I put the orange and the botanicals back in the boiler for the run too. The smell on the spirit run was very interesting and the first D.P. went close to blowing me away with the taste. :happy-partydance:
Now after that first try I decided to go grab a 5 litre Coolabah Rose goon cask and mulled the mulling herbs and some freshly cut Navel orange slices keeping the heating under 70 C for about 3 hours. Then I filtered out the botanicals and did several strip runs to get the low wines for the spirit run. I threw the orange and the botanicals back in the boiler and in the thumper went some of the original mulling wine mix.
Once again the smell and D.P. was amazing and the final spirit was watered down to 65% and some freshly charred/toasted French Oak was cut from my 2.2kg domino and added.
Now after a few weeks the taste has really started to develop and I'm thinking for such a small run calling it and making a bottle or two.
I do need to go see a few wineries and see if i can get some red wine cheap to strip so I can do a full run over 4 plates in my bubbler setup. In order to get 45 litres of low wines from a red grape based wine I would reckon I'd need close to 100 litres of red wine. So with many wineries close by I'm sure one may come to the party.
Anyway if you have a small pot still setup this is worth trying as the result is simply stunning.
Cheers Bryan