Random notes on alcoholic experiments

Recipe

Cooked Ingredients

Cooked Ingredients

  • 750 ml white wine
  • 20 cardamom pods
  • 20 juniper berries
  • 5 cloves
  • 1 star anise
  • 1 tsp rooibos

Cardamom

Crush the cardamom pods and juniper berries and break up the star anise by hand. Add the dry ingredients and the wine in a lidded pot and bring to a boil....

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In preparation for batch #19 of my sweet vermouth, which I will be making this weekend, I thought I'd better give a quick overview of batches 1-18.

When I first decided to make my own vermouth, my plan was to begin with as few ingredients as possible, and then start filling in missing flavors. Af...

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I currently have five tinctures in my cabinet that do a lot of the heavy lifting in nearly everything that I make. I have three bitter herbs: wormwood, cinchona, and gentian, as well as bitter and sweet orange peel extracts.

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