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"Come on let's put it in" :dance:

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:text-+1: On everything Bayshine said, that's exactly my method. Frozen berries and let the sugar do its thing.

Never had one go wrong, I have done it with 70% from the pot and 95.6% ( :teasing-tease: ) from the NEUTRALISER

SGD.. hmm has a nice ring to it :handgestures-thumbupleft:

bayshine wrote:"Come on let's put it in" :dance:

Send us a reminder in the morning mate, I'll shove SGD in TNP section.... just dont like touching those buttons after drinking ;-)

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:text-+1: On everything Bayshine said, that's exactly my method. Frozen berries and let the sugar do its thing.

Never had one go wrong, I have done it with 70% from the pot and 95.6% ( :teasing-tease: ) from the NEUTRALISER

SGD.. hmm has a nice ring to it :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Hey urrazeb, I'm interested to know how you go about proofing something with a lot of solids in. Are you using a calculator of some type? Thats the one thing that worries me with my spd.
Thankyou in advance. :think:

I record how much alc and what abv goes in, from this I use a dilution calculator and work it out backwards, if I get carried away and make the batch up.

If I'm thinking straight then... For example; If I start with 4L @95% and require a 40% final product I know I need a final volume of 9.5L, I will sweeten to taste and add water last to get the volume.

Glycine (sp) is added if more mouth feel is needed in the case of SGD

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If it didn't work for you, do it my way. I have never had a bad batch. Its all about getting quantities right. You don't need to macerate with 90% neutral with this recipe. I've tried both and found 40% is perfect for frozen strawberries.

Get your container and fill it with:

500g fresh strawberries (frozen), or frozen strawberries. Halved.
500ml of 40% Neutral.
80g of sugar.

Leave it for 5 days to macerate then pour off the excess. Continue to do this over the coming days as it gives off left over juices.
Then add:

1/4 teaspoon of citric acid.

If you want it sweeter, add more sugar, add some glucose if you want to thicken it up a bit.

I think that's perfect for what I want. Borderline alcoholic strawberry jam!

Well thought out write up Zak, just one idea. If there is a link to a dilution calculator it would be handy on the recipe, as it's needed on this style of maceration. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Good idea mate, I'll sort it out tonight.

I just thought I'd get something in the TnP section now so we can all make something a bit different coming into summer :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Yep I reckon some of my next neutral run will be set aside for this :dance:

Really is a cracker! I was only 2 or 3 runs into the game when i tried the original but wow!!!
You know the story, Happy wife, Happy...

Yea after reading this thread I did decide to go and get 2 new fermenters just for TPW to get a stock of neutral up, now just got them in my new shed with towels wrapped around and using EC118 yeast had to put a tad more and both had stopped due to that cold snap we had, but both are down to 1020 and chugging along. I'm thinking I may plumb up my ol' reflux still thats sat in my shed for years to run the TPW and got a nice range of botanical's here to try a few flavours. SWMBO has dried out some licorice root so will give that a go and the silvenberry is flowering now, if local guy's like a chilli vodka my Manzano Chilli tree will produce a few dozen this season.

The best part of this recipe is the whisky can age and just get better in time too.....

Had some neutral around so thought I would give this ago, I used 500 gm frozen halved strawberries, 800 ml @ 50% neutral and about a Tbsp lemon juice. I am not really a fan of sweet drinks but it looks so nice thought why not.



Now a bit of a wait (-|

Got a tree loaded with huge mulberries, going to give this a go with a litre of my lemon vodka I reckon..... sweet n sour G dropper :))

I believe the strawberries were spent when I came home from work the flesh was all soft like trying to put a pipi on a hook and a very pale pink. I believe it was done in 24 hrs so I strained the alcohol off the top and put in a separate jar then added sugar enough to cover the strawberries and more and a squirt of lemon juice to the fruit jar .

Smells amazing, tried a small sample without the syrup addition and was tasty but sharp, the syrup test will be interesting. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Holy shit man. This stuff is good!! :drool:
Made up about 600ml using 55% alcohol.
Ended up with 700ml after adding the sugar juice.
This is easy to drink straight at high abv but,
I watered it down to 1L.
Also made the same amount using frozen mango.
Is definitely drinkable but nowhere near SGD standard.

1 2many wrote:I believe the strawberries were spent when I came home from work the flesh was all soft like trying to put a pipi on a hook and a very pale pink. I believe it was done in 24 hrs so I strained the alcohol off the top and put in a separate jar then added sugar enough to cover the strawberries and more and a squirt of lemon juice to the fruit jar .

Smells amazing, tried a small sample without the syrup addition and was tasty but sharp, the syrup test will be interesting. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Update time 1 2... How is it? It's hard to Stuff up ;)

Muppet wrote:

1 2many wrote:I believe the strawberries were spent when I came home from work the flesh was all soft like trying to put a pipi on a hook and a very pale pink. I believe it was done in 24 hrs so I strained the alcohol off the top and put in a separate jar then added sugar enough to cover the strawberries and more and a squirt of lemon juice to the fruit jar .

Smells amazing, tried a small sample without the syrup addition and was tasty but sharp, the syrup test will be interesting. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Update time 1 2... How is it? It's hard to Stuff up ;)

:text-+1: did ya lose the g? :laughing-rolling:

Well I forgot to take the bottle to me mates :angry-banghead: so she missed out.

But the result is great although I wanted to filter it to get the product as clean as possible but that gave me the shits so didn't bother (using coffee filters).

Taste great straight up but I prefer with a dash of lemonaide.

And I only used a small amount of syrup to sweeten so as not to make it to sickly which leaves plenty left to top off the ice cream. Now to try some different fruits. :D