Thursday, August 02, 2012
Decant 2
Going round the Horton Clockwise Walk this morning, noticed that there are some black blackberries in the hedges. Maybe not all that ripe, but black. This prompted me to make a move on the gallon jar of blackberry whisky which has been sitting in the corner of the study since January 17th, the odd bottle still sitting in the cupboard under the stairs, untouched.
The gallon jar has filled up six standard screw top booze bottles, washed but not sterilised, leaving a thick sludge in the bottom of the jar and maybe half a bottle of not so clear fluid. These last two discarded and the six bottles containing something that looks a bit like almost neat Ribena have now taken their place under the stairs. I think the original recipe said to leave the stuff for at least a year so we have a little time to go yet before broaching the stuff.
The blackberries were picked on or about August 22nd last year, being picked direct into the jars after BH decided that she had quite enough berries in her freezer and quite enough jam in her cupboards. Just as well I could find the relevant post as I could not remember whether the recipe involved sugar or not. It did.
The gallon jar has filled up six standard screw top booze bottles, washed but not sterilised, leaving a thick sludge in the bottom of the jar and maybe half a bottle of not so clear fluid. These last two discarded and the six bottles containing something that looks a bit like almost neat Ribena have now taken their place under the stairs. I think the original recipe said to leave the stuff for at least a year so we have a little time to go yet before broaching the stuff.
The blackberries were picked on or about August 22nd last year, being picked direct into the jars after BH decided that she had quite enough berries in her freezer and quite enough jam in her cupboards. Just as well I could find the relevant post as I could not remember whether the recipe involved sugar or not. It did.
# posted by Jim @ 7:59 AM 
