What's everyone drinking?

[warramungas]

H2O with a dash or three of antibiotics thrown in for good measure.
Had a ball tearer. Cant drink anything with a hydroxy group bonded to it at the moment.
Great Xmas!

[Professor Green]

That's harsh mate; you'll have to make up for it at New Year!

Cheers,
Prof. Green.

[bluc]

Or on new years :teasing-tease:

[Sam.]

Cant drink anything with a hydroxy group bonded to it at the moment

Get out :laughing-rolling:

[bluc]

All grain peated whiskey :happy-partydance: (with apple turnover custard and whipped cream :D )

[RuddyCrazy]

Well finished off those JS beers I had in the esky found out well why waste the ice in the esky when on can go and decant some Strawberry G dropper vodka. No frills just 50ml in a 150ml bottle then top it up with 40% neutral.

Tasting great on ice too :)) :)) :))

[pingu]

aussie cream yum :teasing-nutkick:

[bluc]

Peated whisky rum and ujsm not nessacaraly in that order :teasing-tease:

[bluc]

Corn whiskey :teasing-neener:

[bluc]

Rum. man its a good drop :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Nino]

Single malt white dog (one week old), and it is very good.

[bluc]

Corn whiskey...everything is drying up :angry-banghead: ~x( x_x

[bluc]

My 33op rum and coke. Lots dark fruit flavour prune sultanas etc :dance: I will have to age more in future at this proof I reakon :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Sam.]

Glenlivevit, might have to check out the chat soon :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[a_d_twomey]

rum and coke

[Professor Green]

My first gin run went well so tonight it's gin and tonic.

Cheers,
Prof. Green.

[Fishleg]

Any chance you could post your botanical bill prof?

[Professor Green]

No problem fishleg.

It's a really simple gin with a low botanical count but it's an absolute cracker. It's basically "Odin's Easy Gin" as it is known in other parts of the world but I added orris root as a fixative.

3 litres neutral @ 43% ABV ( I used neutral from a recent bran wash)
36g Juniper berries
9g Coriander seed
Zest from a lemon
Zest from a lime
Zest from a mandarin
1/2 tsp orris root

I macerated all the ingredients for 12 hours.
Then I gently and slowly distilled the macerated liquor (including all of the botanicals) in a pot still on a double boiler with a power controller.
I discarded first 10ml as per the original instructions, and collected the next 1200ml which came out at 81%
This was proofed down to 45% and I took a 200ml sample to drink today and have the remainder resting to allow the flavours to fully meld.

It's a little citrus heavy (probably due to me leaving the zest in the pot during the distillation) so I will probably increase the quantity of juniper next time to give it a bit more presence.

Dead simple!

I won't post a link here but if you google "Odin's easy Gin" you'll find his thread over on the HD forum that has more info on this gin including but not limited to what to do if you have direct or immersion heating.

Odin has also written some really good stuff on gin making in general on the ADI forum (Google "Odin on Gin").

Cheers,
Prof. Green.

[bluc]

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Rum and pizza does it get any better than this :D

[Fishleg]

Thx prof, recently I had a go at zymurgy bobs gin extract which was quite good. I've found it hard to find decent quantities of botanicals in Canberra which makes these macerated styles more appealing.

I'll give your recipe a go :handgestures-thumbupleft: