I used two bottles for the blackberry gin. I decanted half from one bottle of gin into another and added 125g of blackberries to each bottle, as I squished them down the neck, one by one. I then used a funnel and added 125g of white sugar. As with the sloe gin, I shake it periodically and it's darkening every day.
Are you picking up on a pattern here? Same weight of sugar as fruit, stuff fruit into the spirits. I used vodka with the raspberries after seeing a bottle of rapsberry vodka in the supermarket. I bought the raspberries and blackberries on offer and both were 99p a punnet for 250g.
Are you picking up on a pattern here? Same weight of sugar as fruit, stuff fruit into the spirits. I used vodka with the raspberries after seeing a bottle of rapsberry vodka in the supermarket. I bought the raspberries and blackberries on offer and both were 99p a punnet for 250g.
Here's the haul so far. I added a dash of vanilla essence to the raspberry vodka and a dash of almond essence to the sloe gin and didn't add anything at all to the blackberry gin. Foster Mummy makes blackberry vodka and tells me that you should keep it in a dark cupboard, if only to stop visitors thinking that I have a boozing problem! I'm hoping to get started on these for Christmas! but the longer you leave them, the better they are. When you want to drink them, simply sieve into a clean bottle and I assume eat the fruit before falling asleep on the sofa!
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