Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

I was given this recipe the other day but I won't make as I am a white spirit drinker :obscene-drinkingdrunk:

6lb carrots (2.7kgs carrots)
4lb sugar (1.8kgs sugar)
1 gallon water (3.8lts water)
12oz raisins (chopped) (340g raisins)
2 oranges
1lb clean wheat (454g clean wheat)
2 lemons
30grams yeast

Method –
Wash the carrots well (do not peel) and boil them in the water till tender.
Slice the oranges and lemons and place in a bowl. Pour on the hot water in which the carrots were boiled. Add the sugar, stir until dissolved, leave to stand until cool, then add the raisins, wheat and previously activated yeast.
Cover and leave to ferment for 12 -15 days, skim, syphon and bottle.

bottle? or distill?

its bottle and age for 6months - 2 years.
http://forum.downsizer.net/viewtopic.php?t=2645
anyone going to try it?
:puke-huge:

So its carrot beer not whiskey....

so the person who gave this recipe to me stole it from some1 else :violence-stickwhack: I shall have a talk to her when I see her :violence-smack:

Hmm seems like a carrot wine/mead really...
I am interested in a carrot whisky recipe though as I have that one rellie who tries my stuff but still just goes on and on about this mate he used to have that made carrot whisky and it was amazing etc etc .... :angry-banghead:

Couldn't you use malt or enzymes to convert the starches in carrots into sugar much the same as you can in potatoes or beets? Not sure of the end results though and don't have access to good enough gear to try myself. Still struggling to get corn whiskey right.
20kg bag of carrots can be had for about $20 in Perth at the local Asian shop.

warramungas wrote:20kg bag of carrots can be had for about $20 in Perth at the local Asian shop.

spudshed usually has juicing carrots. would be about 10-40c a kj :handgestures-thumbupleft:

I have successfully made a carrot and ginger brandy - have a few bottles aging now
I found the enzymes helped

What did you do as a recipe for the brandy with ginger. Turn out ok?