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Gin with flavors

Pete Maddex

Pete Maddex

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Red current, kumquat and orange, Raspberry and lemon

The only gin that might be ready is the Kumquat and orange the other two will need a couple of months in a cool dark place at least.

Pete
 
If I ever come over again...

I've made two batches of Ginger Wine. It's OK now, I'm hoping it will the Nectar of the Gods by next winter.

Last week we scrumped a goodly bowl of cherries off our neighbour's tree. They were sweet and juicy, if a little on the small size (apparently this has been a very good year for cherries - even in the supermarkets they are "only" €7.99/kg).
Today I went back for some more and the remaining ones are black and wizened and totally over :)

Our two square metres of raspberry canes have yielded just two raspberies, delicious but only two of them, and similarly 2 strawberries. Fantastic flavour but again, only two.

Our Charlotte potatoes must be getting ready to harvest, but our neighbours, who gave us the seed ptatoes they had left over, have a Colorado Bettle infestation. Ours look OK, but as the two beds are only 150m apart, I think we shall have to keep our eyes peeled.
S
 
I hate feeling drunk so I can self regulate my drinking. It fell off a cliff after the last time I had Covid I didn’t have an alcoholic drink for a few months then maybe one every fortnight, I just couldn’t be bothered.
Hopefully I can increase my consumption a bit as I have some gin to look forward to.

Pete
 
Pete Maddex said:
I hate feeling drunk so I can self regulate my drinking. It fell off a cliff after the last time I had Covid I didn’t have an alcoholic drink for a few months then maybe one every fortnight, I just couldn’t be bothered.
Hopefully I can increase my consumption a bit as I have some gin to look forward to.

Pete
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Mmm...I can relate to that. Working on the house, I come off at J22 on the M5. If I go right on the A38 I go home. If I go left, I take the road across country which will, (even though there are turn-offs) take me home. But if I continue then it takes me to the wondrous town/village of Wedmore and The George Inn with a delicious pint of Fallen Head.

This evening, I turned right. Went all the way down towards our rental...and .......stayed on the road to Wedmore. Delicious pint.
 
I could kill for a proper English pint. This French stuff tastes horrible. It all comes in little bottles (25cl) but much of t is very strong, 6, 7, 8% is normal and I've seen it at 9.5%. It's too much for me. I just want a pint of Timothy Taylor Landlord. Or Bass at a pinch.
Sigh
S
 
I had a 1900 LVA (Licenced Victuallers) annual, unfortunately lent and not returned. It used the common and possibly incorrect differentiation between beer and ale - beer, being dark, ale being light - and gave the average strengths of each as 5% and 8%. Bass is nothing like it was when brewed by Bass, it first detiorated when they stopped using the Burton Union system ( https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/IdBjsaZjWz/irc ) about 1983 - it used to be far more distinctive than it is now.

I used to make wine. One of the best I ever made was rosehip. It wouldn't clear no matter what I did so I sealed the cork on a demijohn and put it away. About three or four years later I came across it again, it was superb. The night it got drunk was the closest I ever got to getting two young ladies in bed at the same time.:)
 
Steve Maskery said:
I could kill for a proper English pint. This French stuff tastes horrible. It all comes in little bottles (25cl) but much of t is very strong, 6, 7, 8% is normal and I've seen it at 9.5%. It's too much for me. I just want a pint of Timothy Taylor Landlord. Or Bass at a pinch.
Sigh
S
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Same here Steve, there’s tons of micro breweries which you would think would be good but to a man they produce IPA - not my favourite but they don’t do it as a sane Englishman would it’s all polluted with fruit and invariably hazy, and nothing under 6% abv quite often 8% +.
About the only pint that’s reliable is Guinness, and that’s a bit insipid compared to the stuff back home, maybe it’s the fact that it’s almost frozen, so cold you can’t taste it. Grrrrr
 
I’ve simple tastes. Flavoured gins are like flavoured teas to me. I’ll stick with Gordon’s.
Beer is one of the essentials that fill the car up on each visit back to UK. Old Peculiar if I can find it, Old Speckled Hen will do.
 
It's amazing what memories this thread throws up; Licenced Victuallers! As young 20 yo bobby, I'd never heard of those words, until I was posted to the town where they had their boarding school…………and the girls used have skinny dipping sessions around midnight! :)

BTW, the beer was rubbish in them days, Watneys Red Barrell or Whitbread Best or Double Diamond.
 
We have an Aldi here, I'll have to see if they stock it. Doubt in TBH. When I made some Rhubarb Gin in Kirkby, I used Morrison's own brand. It was very good, as was Tesco's.
I know it's the market leader, but I can't stand Gordon's. My goto is Bombay Sapphire, but I wouldn't adulterate it with fruit.
S
 
Steve Maskery said:
I just want a pint of Timothy Taylor Landlord.
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You have my sympathies there Steve it’s a really lovely pint, I was fortunate to be at a memorial do yesterday at The Nelson, Burton Joyce. It was a free bar & they had TT landlord on draught, I’d like to say I didn’t make a pig of myself, I really would 🫣🙂

As for American beer I believe Eric Idle summed it up best when he said it was like making love in a canoe, though I best not type the punch line 😂😂😂
 
I've just looked that up. Very funny!

I was in the US last September and we went to bar one evening. There you can order a Flight. It's a board with holes in to hold 5 glasses, each one half a (US) pint. Of course, the server asks what I want, but I have no idea, not recognising any of the names and she not knowing anything I suggest. So it's a bit of description ("I don't like citrussy beers, I do like a bit of hoppiness") and hope for the best. They arrive on the Flight in the order intended to be consumed, the lightest first and the most robust last.
It's a good way of trying out a range of different beers withough getting drunk. If I like it, order next time, if not, remember to avoid.
S

PS I've just opened a bottle of Trois Monts Tripple. It's revolting. I really should read the lable first. 9.5% ABV. Yuck.
 
Oh for a pint of Taylor’s Landlord!
Doug said:
You have my sympathies there Steve it’s a really lovely pint, I was fortunate to be at a memorial do yesterday at The Nelson, Burton Joyce. It was a free bar & they had TT landlord on draught, I’d like to say I didn’t make a pig of myself, I really would 🫣🙂

As for American beer I believe Eric Idle summed it up best when he said it was like making love in a canoe, though I best not type the punch line 😂😂😂
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Well yes that used to be correct, but as mentioned things have changed I now have difficulty finding anything to drink under 5% and most are 7 or 8 or more.
This from my local, just check out the ABV column.IMG_0505.jpeg
 
I went over last September. I was struck by just how expensive everything was. Food was expensive (comparable to France, noticeably dearer than in the UK) and when I tried to find a new baseball cap I looked at the tag - $60. Yes really.
S
 
Steve Maskery said:
I could kill for a proper English pint. This French stuff tastes horrible. It all comes in little bottles (25cl) but much of t is very strong, 6, 7, 8% is normal and I've seen it at 9.5%. It's too much for me. I just want a pint of Timothy Taylor Landlord. Or Bass at a pinch.
Sigh
S
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I discovered TT Landlord when visiting the FiL sometime ago. Nice pint. Bottled only in my neck of the woods but still not too bad.

I remember the bass quote on the toilet wall of my local years ago:

Bottom fallen out of your world?

Get drunk on bass and let the world fall out of your bottom!
 
I don't know if it still does, but the Cap and Stocking at Kegworth used to bring Bass up in a jug from the cellar. It was never piped.
Fun Fact : The red triangle used by Bass was the first ever Registered Trade Mark. But you knew that.
 
Did you never go to the Holly Bush Inn at Makeney when we used to go for a pint with Brian, Ed et al Steve, they served Bass in a jug.
The best pint of Bass I ever had was the pub behind the Bass brewery in Burton many years ago, they had the barrel behind the bar.
 
Well I have been there, but I don't think it was with you, it was with the inlaws.....
Was that Burton place like a terraced house down a back street alley? It was like going into someone's home, with the scullery at the back stacked with various barrels. They did come round with jugs. Fantastic.
S
 
Steve Maskery said:
Was that Burton place like a terraced house down a back street alley?
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Exactly that Steve, the guy behind the bar made a comment that Bass doesn’t travel well & as his hadn’t traveled much more than 30 yards I wouldn’t get a better pint & to be fair he wasn’t wrong.
 
I went with a mate once., Well, ex-mate now, unfortunately. I'd never been anywhere like it, it was like going back in time. I half expected Charles Dickens himself to come through the door.
I tried to find it again years later and couldn't. Shame.
S
 
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Anyway, what's all this got to do with Pete's (almost certainly) most very excellent Gin?
Sigh.
S
PS Had a clear out today and found a pristine jar of Madd Jam. Well that won't last long.
 
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