I was watching gin a video the other day where someone tried to recreate the original Coca-Cola recipe. The ingredients caught my attention, because they seemed to resemble a gin recipe (minus the juniper).
10 grams of orange peel
10 grams of lemon peel
4 grams of cinnamon
1 gram of nutmeg
1 gram of coriander seed
and lastly 4 grams of neroli or bitter orange, but I couldn't find any so I did some research and found that kaffir lime leaves are comprised 80% of neroli compounds so I used 4 grams of them instead.
It got me wondering, has anyone tried using a recipe like this to make a spirit? My first thought would be to make the 7X infusion and distill it like gin, and then to sweeten and color much like the original recipe. Or, leave it unsweetened and treat it like gin.
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. - Mark Twain
