Anyone use blackberries??

[Richiee]

Hi All

I just wondered if anyone had any experience of flavouring neutral with blackberries. The hedgerows are full of them at the moment in the UK.

I flavoured some neutral with sloes last year which turned out very very nice (I have managed to keep one bottle stashed to age for a few years hopefully).

Anyhow I really think the blackberries could work put nice but has any one here tried it? I did search and found a lot of stuff on blackberry wine but that’s not the route I want to take. I was wondering if I should try the SPD method, or do what I did with the Sloes, steep them in neutral - I'm sure it was 500g of frozen fruit+ 500g of caster sugar per 1L of neutral soaked for 3 months. Then filtered and stored in bottles for as long as I could manage!

Richie

[rednose]

Yup, blackberry is very yummy.

I use for 1 gallon 60% light rum 1 Kg blackberries and 500 gr. sugar.

Shake the hell out of it each day and strain after a week.

I reload it 2 times (3 gal total), mix all strains together and bring it to 30 ABV with purified water, add suger sirup if needed.
Some drops of limes juice would help to keep the color.

Joe

[Richiee]

Thanks Joe

I know what I'm going to be doing this weekend then!! Come one kids, coming for a walk with Dad.............

[rednose]

One add Richie

When you water it down try 40% ABV first, some like it stronger, like me.

But most ladies here love it at 30%.

Joe

[Samohon]

Yup, blackberry is very yummy.

I use for 1 gallon 60% light rum 1 Kg blackberries and 500 gr. sugar.

Shake the hell out of it each day and strain after a week.

I reload it 2 times (3 gal total), mix all strains together and bring it to 30 ABV with purified water, add suger sirup if needed.
Some drops of limes juice would help to keep the color.

Joe

Gonna need to try this one Joe. Brambles we call them here in Scotland.
I think their the same thing:

Now to try an get the girls to go with me, think I'll play the lonely daddy card....

[rednose]

Brambles is same thang, wild ones are even better.

I use this base receipt for many other stuff, here some pics examples: Strawberry, Cinnemon and Guayaba (my favorite).

I also use coffee beans, cacao, banana, mango and many more.

Also like to try some blending between them.

Strawberry

Cinnemon

Guayaba

[Richiee]

This is opening up a whole new world now!!! Better get another wash going :

[hstuurman]

I use this base receipt for many other stuff, here some pics examples: Strawberry, Cinnemon and Guayaba (my favorite).

What is "Guayaba"?

[Samohon]

I use this base receipt for many other stuff, here some pics examples: Strawberry, Cinnemon and Guayaba (my favorite).

What is "Guayaba"?

They are from the pomegranate family native in mexico... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guava

Never seen them here in the UK, but they do look tasty...

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[hstuurman]

I use this base receipt for many other stuff, here some pics examples: Strawberry, Cinnemon and Guayaba (my favorite).

What is "Guayaba"?

They are from the pomegranate family native in mexico... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guava

Never seen them here in the UK, but they do look tasty...

images.jpg

Reminds me of a drink a drank when I lived on St. martin. Guavaberry liquor:http://www.guavaberry.com/
Not the same as guava http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guavaberry.
Guavaberry liquor was a sweet strong warm likker, really nice, but so drunk

[rednose]

Never seen them here in the UK, but they do look tasty...

That's the one, they grow wild here, you can catch 10 fruits in the local market for 1 USD.

They are a little bigger than a goose egg.

They are used a lot for milk shakes and are very delicious with a very strong flavor.

As I said, it's my favorite, they don't color much the likker but leave A LOT of flavor.

Today setup a pineapple (was toooo cheap in the market to leave 'em there) rum with the same base.

For next week I purchased ripe coconuts, that will be a nice experiment.

Joe

[Richiee]

Well thats the bramble started, now for the hard part.....waiting

Better go and start picking the sloes next

[Caprimulgus]

This might be OT, but sneak in a vanilla pod together with the cinnamon. After straining, I recycle the cinnamon sticks and vanilla pod by boiling them in cream to make ice cream.

[Richiee]

Thanks Caprimulgus, I really like vanilla but I'd never thought of using it. I will defo give that a try. I'm running out of space, neutral, fermenting bins, kilner jars, time....its all consuming but oh so worth it.

[Caprimulgus]

Space.....I had forgotten what that was.

[MuleKicker]

My dad has a chunk of property loaded with them. I picked for hours last year to make a 5 gal wash. stained my hands for days. made me a 750ml of fine brandy fer all that work.