My First Odins Easy Gin

[The Dark Alchemist]

Wow!!! Easy and had a small glass tonight after distilling in the week and blending to 42%.... Testing week 1 of 5 of course.
Very nice already.........

Thanks for the recipe, tips and all the advice I have taken from these forums [THUMBS UP SIGN][THUMBS UP SIGN]


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[fizzix]

You see some gin recipes that throw all kinds of ingredients into the mix. It's impressive what just the few botanicals do to this gin.
If you don't drink it all at once, the 5-week conditioning wait really pays off!

[NZChris]

I've never bothered with waiting 5 weeks for an OEG. It is nice enough straight off the still and I've always made enough that there is some left after five weeks. After an early sample of the first run you can get a fair idea of what changes you might want to try for your next run, so there is no need to wait for five weeks before designing your next gin.

[nuncaquite]

''You see some gin recipes that throw all kinds of ingredients into the mix. It's impressive what just the few botanicals do to this gin.''

Im with you on that. My tongue is just not sophisticated enough for some gins.
Odins gin is a keeper. If it fails look within.

[The Dark Alchemist]

I've never bothered with waiting 5 weeks for an OEG. It is nice enough straight off the still and I've always made enough that there is some left after five weeks. After an early sample of the first run you can get a fair idea of what changes you might want to try for your next run, so there is no need to wait for five weeks before designing your next gin.

I poured half a litre into a Bombay bottle to sample over the next couple of weeks. Not sure my taste buds will differentiate, but I am willing to try. Beautiful already with Fever Tree Mediterranean Tonic, and a slice of lemon......

[fizzix]

I've never bothered with waiting 5 weeks for an OEG. It is nice enough straight off the still and I've always made enough that there is some left after five weeks. After an early sample of the first run you can get a fair idea of what changes you might want to try for your next run, so there is no need to wait for five weeks before designing your next gin.

I poured half a litre into a Bombay bottle to sample over the next couple of weeks. Not sure my taste buds will differentiate, but I am willing to try.

What I find over the 5 weeks is the mellowing of the tangerine skin twang. I tried cutting back on the skin, but it wasn't as good.

[NZChris]

What I find over the 5 weeks is the mellowing of the tangerine skin twang. I tried cutting back on the skin, but it wasn't as good.

I celebrate the difference, using various peels and consuming my gins as both young and old. Some of the flavors that I like disappear soon after distillation and adding more doesn't seem to make any difference. The gin in my glass right now was poured from two different runs and is very nice, but I wouldn't combine the two runs just to free up glassware as they are both nice gins in their own right.

[The Dark Alchemist]

What I find over the 5 weeks is the mellowing of the tangerine skin twang. I tried cutting back on the skin, but it wasn't as good.

I celebrate the difference, using various peels and consuming my gins as both young and old. Some of the flavors that I like disappear soon after distillation and adding more doesn't seem to make any difference. The gin in my glass right now was poured from two different runs and is very nice, but I wouldn't combine the two runs just to free up glassware as they are both nice gins in their own right.

Well, almost at the 5 week mark and been drinking the last week. An awesome recipe, simple, friends are amazed and I am stoked with the outcome. Looking at my next BW, thinking its another 3L of that magic!!!

The first batch was with rough "I'm guessing what I'm doing" cuts, so as I improve and get more selective, it can only get better......

[still_stirrin]

...Looking at my next BW, thinking its another 3L of that magic!!!....it can only get better......

Try the All Bran recipe in the T&T recipes. It makes a very nice neutral to use as the base of Odin’s EZ gin. Ferments quick and clean. The “sugar bite” is buffered by the bran cereal making it very clean and neutral. Try it.
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[bitter]

OEG is a great one.

I like it best with the tangerine peal cut back a bit if you have really nice fresh larger tangerines. I did normal coriander and juniper and cut back to about to about 2/3 the Tangerine skins in my 26l batch I did. got 26 750's @ 43% long gone... except about 1/2 a bottle I found a couple weeks ago. It is much softer now... but still an amazing gin... as a starting point for your own recipe. My FIL like the full amount of tangerine best from one my earlier test batches but the later batches are more well balanced.

I think the tangerines are key to get nice fresh and very fragrant tangerines. If I had poor quality and smaller tangerines original recipe would be perfect (was in a test batch early of 1l I did as a test with not great tangerine skins).

Another thing I put the juniper in the food processor for a bit to chop it up, Then soak everything for 2 weeks, strain and run based on Odins recipe.



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[The Dark Alchemist]

...Looking at my next BW, thinking its another 3L of that magic!!!....it can only get better......

Try the All Bran recipe in the T&T recipes. It makes a very nice neutral to use as the base of Odin’s EZ gin. Ferments quick and clean. The “sugar bite” is buffered by the bran cereal making it very clean and neutral. Try it.
ss

Thx ss - so many recipes, so little time!!!! I'll give this one a crack too...

[The Dark Alchemist]

OEG is a great one.

I like it best with the tangerine peal cut back a bit if you have really nice fresh larger tangerines. I did normal coriander and juniper and cut back to about to about 2/3 the Tangerine skins in my 26l batch I did. got 26 750's @ 43% long gone... except about 1/2 a bottle I found a couple weeks ago. It is much softer now... but still an amazing gin... as a starting point for your own recipe. My FIL like the full amount of tangerine best from one my earlier test batches but the later batches are more well balanced.

I think the tangerines are key to get nice fresh and very fragrant tangerines. If I had poor quality and smaller tangerines original recipe would be perfect (was in a test batch early of 1l I did as a test with not great tangerine skins).

Another thing I put the juniper in the food processor for a bit to chop it up, Then soak everything for 2 weeks, strain and run based on Odins recipe.



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Now that I have experienced the base result, it's time to play... I now have a heap of botanicals, all infusing, so I'll do some blending to see what botanicals I like together, then play with some bigger runs..........

[bitter]

Another tip use the cleanest neutral you can make. I do 35g ferments then strip 3 and then run them all for a final run after diluting.. Make very clean cuts!

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