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A pleasant weekend bottling wine and making banana liqueur.

Posted in Home brewing, tagged , , , , , on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The weather was so gorgeous last weekend I felt almost human. I don’t know about you but I feel so much more energetic when the sun is out but its not too hot. I have been meaning to bottle some of my home made country wines for ages. As I prefer to do this out [...]

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Blackberry Whisky

Posted in Home brewing, self sufficiency, tagged , , , , , , on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Due to popular demand I am putting up the recipe for this. I didn’t make any this year due to the wedding but definately will next year. Leave for as long as possible before drinking (within reason!)…..it improves with age.
400 g ( 14 ozs) blackberries
200 g (7 ozs) sugar
426ml ( 15fluid ozs) whisky
15 ml ( 1 tbs ) [...]

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Pear Liqueur

Posted in Home brewing, self sufficiency, tagged , , , , on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As promised.
The strawberry liqueur I made a few days back is coming along fine ( right), so as I had a glut of pears I have made some pear as well. Its interesting that both the kilner jars hold approximately the same amount of liquid, it doesn’t look as though they do, does it? This is [...]

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Strawberry liqueur

Posted in Home brewing, tagged , , , on September 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I am told Strawberry Liqueur is rather sweeter than the other fruit liqueurs, because strawberries are naturally a sweeter fruit. It is recommended  poured over pancakes, or over the sponge in a trifle, and if you take a galia melon, cut it in half, and fill the middles with strawberry liqueur and perhaps a little sugar, [...]

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