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  • #52
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,754 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    The Davestator wrote: »
    Made a few bottles of elderberry gin last night. They'll be given as presents and drank over the Christmas

    I forgot about the elderberries, suppose to be great for one's health but not gone on their flavour but probably really nice as a gin.

    Also nettles when young are a good healthy food.


  • #53
    Sycamore Tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Sycamore Tree


    What is the story with the so called "witches spit" which covers some blackberries and rots them?
    It looks like a fungus of some sort.


  • #54
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    The Davestator wrote: »
    Made a few bottles of elderberry gin last night. They'll be given as presents and drank over the Christmas

    Have you tried gorse/whin wine?


  • #55
    Sycamore Tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Sycamore Tree


    I think some of you are making wine from obscure fruits just as an excuse to drink even more "healthy" alcohol. ;)
    Gorse wine? Soon ye will be making cowpat wine. :)


  • #56
    Whispered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    little fella went for a walk with his granny today and came back with a belly and a bucket full of damsons.


  • #57
    Whispered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    Sycamore Tree wrote: »
    Soon ye will be making cowpat wine. :)

    "A smooth wine, with strong tannins and earthy notes, goes well with beef"


  • #58
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    You can rob honey from bumblebee's nests.

    No you can't. Bumblebees store nectar, not honey.


  • #59
    Snotty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭Snotty


    Ah feck all that, I'll just go to the supermarket


  • #60
    Dakota Dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,774 ✭✭✭Dakota Dan


    The Davestator wrote: »
    Made a few bottles of elderberry gin last night. They'll be given as presents and drank over the Christmas

    Gin? I’ve heard of elderberry wine but didn’t know you can make gin out of it.


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  • #61
    The Davestator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,500 ✭✭✭The Davestator


    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    Gin? I’ve heard of elderberry wine but didn’t know you can make gin out of it.

    My first time trying it. 400g berries, 200g sugar and a bottle of aldi gin. Shake daily for a month and open at Christmas.

    I'll be collecting sloe's this weekend if I can find them as sloe gin turned out really well last year

    fingers crossed!


  • #62
    mariaalice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,630 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    The Davestator wrote: »
    My first time trying it. 400g berries, 200g sugar and a bottle of aldi gin. Shake daily for a month and open at Christmas.

    I'll be collecting sloe's this weekend if I can find them as sloe gin turned out really well last year

    fingers crossed!

    I have made that loads of times as well a raspberry and blackcurrant ones from the fruit in our garden very easy and they turn out lovely. The French make a thing called https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/blackberry-liqueur-creme-de-mure


  • #63
    Pretzill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,696 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    The Davestator wrote: »
    My first time trying it. 400g berries, 200g sugar and a bottle of aldi gin. Shake daily for a month and open at Christmas.

    I'll be collecting sloe's this weekend if I can find them as sloe gin turned out really well last year

    fingers crossed!
    One year I made sloe gin - it tastes more like a liqueur. But the thought of ruining a perfectly good bottle of gin again annoy me :o- Would love to have the time/patience to make wine.


  • #64
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,269 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    kylith wrote: »
    Recipe please!
    This is the one I'm using: https://www.wineturtle.com/homemade-blackberry-wine-recipe-in-4-easy-steps/


  • #65
    chite
    Registered Users Posts: 112 ✭✭chite


    Josepha Madigan and her predecessor Heather Humphreys had been pushing the Heritage Bill (basically allowing the cutting of hedgerows from the 1st August instead of the 31st), which was passed earlier this year. I apologise for turning this lovely thread into a FG bashing thread.

    I had no hedgerow left since a week ago, even though the minister hadn't commenced the Heritage Act that would've permitted cutting from the 1st August. No blackberries, sloes or well a hedge for biodiversity anymore where I am.


  • #66
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Whispered wrote: »
    "A smooth wine, with strong tannins and earthy notes, goes well with beef"

    A taste that demands attention, possibly medical.


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  • #67
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Pretzill wrote: »
    One year I made sloe gin - it tastes more like a liqueur. But the thought of ruining a perfectly good bottle of gin again annoy me :o- Would love to have the time/patience to make wine.

    I'd always associate sloes with being very dry and bitter. Fuchsia flowers insides are sweet, I wonder if they are used for anything.


  • #68
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    chite wrote: »
    Josepha Madigan and her predecessor Heather Humphreys had been pushing the Heritage Bill (basically allowing the cutting of hedgerows from the 1st August instead of the 31st), which was passed earlier this year. I apologise for turning this lovely thread into a FG bashing thread.

    I had no hedgerow left since a week ago, even though the minister hadn't commenced the Heritage Act that would've permitted cutting from the 1st August. No blackberries, sloes or well a hedge for biodiversity anymore where I am.

    FG also proposed the selling of the hedgerow berry picking rights to a Malaysian jam conglomerate which has known links to Islamic extremism.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • #69
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    FG also proposed the selling of the hedgerow berry picking rights to a Malaysian jam conglomerate which has known links to Islamic extremism.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    They fund the mujahmdeen!


  • #70
    chite
    Registered Users Posts: 112 ✭✭chite


    Atoms for Peace wrote: »
    FG also proposed the selling of the hedgerow berry picking rights to a Malaysian jam conglomerate which has known links to Islamic extremism.:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Nah, they didn't have time to consult expert stakeholders and also on the grounds of road safety, oh wait...


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