Blackberry Whisky

[wellie]

Who's Willie?

[dexterdoglancashire]

Ooops! sorry! It was 5am and I'd been up since 2am worrying about Dexter the dog! DDL

[wellie]

DDL, I hope Dexter The Dog is ok.... it's really upsetting when animals aren't well.
Wishing you both well.

[dexterdoglancashire]

DDL, I hope Dexter The Dog is ok.... it's really upsetting when animals aren't well.
Wishing you both well.

Thanks wellie, he seems a bit better at the mo. Good days and not so good days. Perhaps a snifter of blackberry whiskey could do the trick! Bernie aka Dexterdog

[Flummery]

Just found this thread. Last October I made the usual sloe gin, damson vodka (had a brilliant set of fruit on my damson tree) and bullace (wild plum) brandy. All gorgeous, just the fruit, sugar and the spirit. Would try any again and I really fancy the idea of using blackberries. I collected lots last year and made blackberry jelly.

[Brewer-again]

blackberries

You can brew Blackberries to make a lovely drink that is about 18% without the expense of buying shop bought spirits. Just take the juice and add yeast and leave it to work.
Lovely drink for negligable outlay

[jacob marley]

when you strain the fruit out of the spirit melt some cooking chocalate and mix together when cool chocalate liqueur

[dexterdoglancashire]

Wished I'd known that earlier jacob!

[Soldierfire]

I am getting ready to make some blackberry brandy. last year i made some chokecherry brandy that was super smooth. Brandy by nature is the alcohol distilled from fruit. I cook the wine in a pressure cooker and distill the alcohol from the vent so far this method works well but you have to have the vent vlamped tight. I am new to this forum

[Soldierfire]

I stated making beer last year and have made several hundred bottles. I have some persimmon wine but may turn that into brandy since it seems no matter how many times i rack it i still have a hint of astringency. I mixed peach and grape wine and it is acceptable, my wife actually prefers it. Living in germany spoiled me with all of the inexpensive wines.

[Polly Fouracre]

You could always brew the berries as a wine and then freeze distill the result. This would provide an excellent berry brandy which would be in the style of a french liqueure brandy but would only cost the sugar. My dictionary accepts that there are liqueure whiskies so they must be around. Perhaps you need a really old smooth whisky into which you put berries. It just seems such a waste of the whisky brewers talent.

Freeze distilling is a new one on me and as this must be illegal perhaps you would give me detailed directions just so I dont do it accidentally!!

[Soldierfire]

I distilled the persimmon wine into brandy. Man is it strong, knock your socks off, flavor is not bad like corn whiskey with a hint of fruitiness. I just checked and i have persimmons comming on this year, we had a bad freeze and i though it killed everything. I have to work on my distillation, i have a steamer but it gets to hot and it blew the safety plug, i will have to regroup and use a lower temperature. I am going to check my blackberry wine and beer today they have both stopped fermenting.

[Soldierfire]

I checked the blackberry wine today and it was very good. I like a wine with a touch of sweetness like the german spatlase. I may try to use splenda to sweeten instead of sugar before i bottle.

[Brewer-again]

flavour concentration !!

Polly fouracre ! Hi
Even some beer companies use the same process to concentrate the parts of a brew that do not freeze as quickly as water. Water is the first part to freeze so place your brew in a freezer then take it to that stage. Then pour the rest into a container and save it, it really concentrates the flavour and other parts. The ice can be dumped.

[Flummery]

They used to do it in Cananda with cider - Stick it in the snow, chuck out the ice from the top. The result is called applejack.