Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

I recently bought a 28ml bottle of this essence and the instructions state to mix it with five litres of 40% ABV spirit. :o :o Five litres, that sounds like a bloody big dilution to me.

Can anybody else that has used this essence guide me in the right direction. Five litres is a fair bit of booze to bugger up.

Maybe better to divide it up by 4 and only make up 7ml in an 1250ml of spirit?

Just a thought.

Cheers
GTH

grumpthehermit wrote:Maybe better to divide it up by 4 and only make up 7ml in an 1250ml of spirit?

Just a thought.

Cheers
GTH

7ml in 1250ml just does not sound right to me. I did think of that and found a small syringe to do the job.

Some of the gin essences are pretty concentrated. Sounds like a good value one if you ask me; that is, if it tastes any good.

A syringe is the best way to accurately measure out smaller doses of essence. Let us know how it tastes.

Its just super concentrated thats all, you will notice a lot of companies are doing this these days. Just about every dishwashing liquid and (normal) cordial you buy now says "2 x the strength so you only need half as much", which is them just saving on packaging and shipping costs even if the product is inferior.

Having said that if you use something like the Still Spirits Whisky Profile Kit and only want to mix one bottle the recipe will call for 2ml of "A" and 1.8ml of "B" etc etc, like said try and get your hands on some small syringes, one of the easiest sources I know is small kids medicine have little syringes used for a couple of ml and must be accurate so might be able to get them from the chemist cheap or free? I was lucky enough to get given a shit load of 5 and 10ml syringes. If you want some give me a PM and I can post them to you.

My God :o I made up 500mls at 40 abv to just see what this stuff is like. Seeing as this is 1/10th their suggested amount, I carefully measured off 2.8mls of essence (1/10th of the 28ml bottle) and added it to the 500mls. Hmmmmm, tastes like raw spirit, so I gave it another 2.8 ml hit. Hmmm still not good. So I eventually added four more hits with a total of 16.8 mls of this essence before I reckon it could possibly pass as Gin.

So isn't that a great effort, more than half the bottle in 500 mls. :evil: :handgestures-thumbdown:

Well in that case they are out to rip you off then!

Divey wrote:My God :o I made up 500mls at 40 abv to just see what this stuff is like. Seeing as this is 1/10th their suggested amount, I carefully measured off 2.8mls of essence (1/10th of the 28ml bottle) and added it to the 500mls. Hmmmmm, tastes like raw spirit, so I gave it another 2.8 ml hit. Hmmm still not good. So I eventually added four more hits with a total of 16.8 mls of this essence before I reckon it could possibly pass as Gin.

So isn't that a great effort, more than half the bottle in 500 mls. :evil: :handgestures-thumbdown:

maybe you could buy some vodka essence to fix it :whistle:

I tried that one when I was starting out, utter shite. In fact, I never found an essence that was satisfactory (and gin does lend it's self to being reduced to an essence, unlike some other spirits). Making your own gin is great fun, and could keep you busy for a life time, but its pretty easy to make really bad gin, but once you get your eye in, you have the opportunity to make something unique (in a good way)

HaveIMentionedThatIReallyLikeGinAl

Not to promote any LHBS .. but the StillSpirit Classic Blue Jewel is a cracker of a essence ..... pretty damn close to blue sapphire and very very very easy to drink ... I have found a few others that are kick arse but this is my favourite !!!

I use the SS Top Self English Gin, everybody loves it :handgestures-thumbupleft:

ya could get loads of free syringes ifen ya bust open one of those little yellow boxes in a public shithouse :laughing-rolling: kidding . One would think if they can't get a gin essence (botanical extracts) right then there's just about no hope for anything PS What the hell is vodka essences , distilled water maybe :icon-lol: :icon-lol: :icon-lol:

The Stig wrote:I use the SS Top Self English Gin, everybody loves it :handgestures-thumbupleft:

having never tasted gin i was at a Delmer at asking my mates have ya ever tasted Gin ??
as i has a SS packet and wanted to use it so decided to try it its added to 1 ltr of 40%
its as they say fukn fantastic .

im a gin addict now :scared-eek:

Yup Still spirits london gin is the go ....my pommy inlaws lovd this stuff as do I .
Sorry but essencia essences suck ...I have tried many of themand all of them are shite

Yummyrum wrote:Yup Still spirits london gin is the go ....my pommy inlaws lovd this stuff as do I .
Sorry but essencia essences suck ...I have tried many of themand all of them are shite

not to hyjack the thread but yer i am find that as well i have there tennassee whisky and they say gets better with a few days age on it i am finding it just tastes like a vanilla been tho mixed with cola its ok its even better mixed with some SS bourbon to take the Vanilla taste down a bit but yer was hoping for jacks
i got peters icecream
hey im still learning anyway so ill know not to get that again 8-}