"Aging" with foodcolor?

[rednose]

Today I went to a local store (had to kill time waiting for some tramits in the duties) which has a lot of stuff for coloring and flavoring and bought some food grade colors like green, caramel, coffee, yellow etc.

Well, than at home I made some tests with especially UJSSM and caramel color, it turned out pretty nice and didn't change the flavor at all.

Also tried yellow for a anis spirit I made yesterday with Staranis, something similar to Pernod but with or without the yellow color it didn't get milky adding water.

Anyhow, is there anything bad to use this way to "age" our likker?

[olddog]

Anyhow, is there anything bad to use this way to "age" our likker?

This is not ageing it's colouring.

I sometimes use caramel in my UJSSM when ageing for a few months has not reached a dark enough color, yet has enough oaky taste.

[rednose]

Yep, couldn't find the right word and set it into " ".

I use also burned brown sugar but with this food grade colors you could help a little to find the right color.

The problem is that here no likker will age enough as all my friends and family are pretty thursty.

Anyhow, is there anything bad to use this way to "age" our likker?

This is not ageing it's colouring.

I sometimes use caramel in my UJSSM when ageing for a few months has not reached a dark enough color, yet has enough oaky taste.

[Dnderhead]

git rid of the "friends "" or make more or tell them to make there own.
sounds like the ones that are "friends" as long as you have something they want.
cut them off for awhile and see if they keep coming meanwhile stock up.

[rednose]

Good idea, but after the test phase.

Actually they save me money not buying rats and mice to test the booze.

git rid of the "friends "" or make more or tell them to make there own.
sounds like the ones that are "friends" as long as you have something they want.
cut them off for awhile and see if they keep coming meanwhile stock up.

[rubber duck]

Good idea, but after the test phase.

Actually they save me money not buying rats and mice to test the booze.

git rid of the "friends "" or make more or tell them to make there own.
sounds like the ones that are "friends" as long as you have something they want.
cut them off for awhile and see if they keep coming meanwhile stock up.

That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.

[Barney Fife]

If you're a mixer(IE: rum and coke), go ahead and use some flat, caffeine-free coke or diet coke to add color; you'll be amazed at how little is needed to bring your spirits to a perfect golden coloring. I do this when I'm going to travel and need to get my coloring as perfect and "normal" as can be. And I'll be damned if some of my best drink hasn't been this colorized stuff; there may be something to long term(one week or two) mixing like this. But make sure the soda is flat; folks may look at you with suspecting eyes when you twist the cap off your "Captain Morgan's Dark" rum and it sounds like you opened a beer. Been there, done that. Now I keep a big bottle of caf-free coke with the cap only loosely in place, to be sure it's damn good and flat.

Anybody "see" any reason to not actually age(months/years) spirits with a bit of coke added to it? Does coke(or pepsi for that matter) "go bad" over time?

[rednose]

I'm gonna try it with some bourbon, folks here drink bourbon with coke, me included.

Yep the CO2 will make some surprising noise when opening the bottle.

Coke is mainly made of burned suger (caramel) if I'm not very wrong.

Anybody "see" any reason to not actually age(months/years) spirits with a bit of coke added to it? Does coke(or pepsi for that matter) "go bad" over time?