Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Hey all, made this before, all i can say is fuck yeah!!!. One of my fav shots and its alot smoother than the shop brought one.

2 cups 40% neutral spirit
7 drops aniseed essential oil
1 3/4 cups sugar syrup
1 tsp glycerin

Put the oil into the spirit and give a good shake, mix into the sugar glycerin brew. Give it a few days, a week to infuse a bit.

Sounds interesting, I am going to try it. 2 questions:

What sort of shop has aniseed oil?
What have you tried in terms of essences to compare with?
I normally use Willards black pre-mix and it is excellent.

G'day Geoff, the missus said try health shops first, then have a look online, if you get stuck, give me a buzz, my missus can get it. I havnt compaired it to other essences, just the stuff ya buy commercially. Tastes even better after a few days. Ive read a bit about essences and looks like you get about 1.5L per essence bottle? at between $10-$17? . I did a quick calculation before and i should get about 40 750ml bottles out of one 15ml essential oil bottle, all for $7 :laughing-rolling:

My missus makes fragrances for us with essential oils using vodka as the base transport spray.
Some of the oils can get pretty pricey (some 10 or 15mL bottle can be over $40-50) - but you are only using a few drops at a time so, as googe's calcs show, it would still work out cheaper than HBS essences

googe wrote:G'day Geoff, the missus said try health shops first, then have a look online, if you get stuck, give me a buzz, my missus can get it. I havnt compaired it to other essences, just the stuff ya buy commercially. Tastes even better after a few days. Ive read a bit about essences and looks like you get about 1.5L per essence bottle? at between $10-$17? . I did a quick calculation before and i should get about 40 750ml bottles out of one 15ml essential oil bottle, all for $7 :laughing-rolling:

OK, I'll try that thanks googe. The Samuel Willards is about $13 and makes 1.125 litre. Bit pricey really but not if you compare with Galliano.

No worries mate, yeah its dear shit from the shop hey. Good luck.

Just made a batch. Bewdiful! This ones goin straight to the pool room! Cheers for the post!!

i must say on making this today it does smell pretty good.. will wait for it to settle before tasting...
Althought maybe im a different generation... but i actually had to go and google conversions.. damn imperial measurements...

Good stuff fella's :), glad you like it, must say it smoothes out heaps when its sat for a while. Doesnt have the big bite like the shop brought stuff. Im doing the next batch at maybe 50-60% :D

googe wrote:Good stuff fella's :), glad you like it, must say it smoothes out heaps when its sat for a while. Doesnt have the big bite like the shop brought stuff. Im doing the next batch at maybe 50-60% :D

Yeah you are using 2 cups at 40% and adding 1.5 cups sugar syrup, that would bring the ratio down to 25% ish... its normally sold in the shops at 40%.

Sounds like a nice recipe though.

Had some of this though the week that had been sitting for 2 months, bloody hell.it's nice, shits over the shop brought stuff. Doesn't seen to be the case boomgate, it's got more than enough fire now it's sat a while :handgestures-thumbupleft: