Dirty blue lagoon and left over fruit wine

[Gordonmull]

Hi folks

not been on here and not been brewing for a number of months now. I've been busy converting the back garden from lawn to produce. Been a backbreaking task with a huge learning curve but summer's(?) here now and the recent wet weather has forced me indoors to find empty barrels and djs looking at me accusingly.

So, I immediately told them to get back under the shelf. I had a more important task at hand. Having promised SWMBO a home-brew cocktail "The Dirty Blue Lagoon" I had the penultimate piece of the jigsaw to put in place. Since most of us are by our very natures afecianados of booze, most of us will know that a blue lagoon is vodka, cointreau, blue curacao and lemonade.

Now, the vodka I can't do anything about. I don't want to, nor am I allowed to create.

The cointreau is orange juice and GV3, fed with sugar until it conked out. I'm hoping for 18%

Blue curacao was started. Valencia oranges and a bottle of vodka were purchased. The oranges were skinned and the skins dried on the radiator. The skins were steeped in 1/2 bottle of vodka overnight, then removed and then a pinch of coriander seed, two cloves and 1" of cinammon stick were added. It'll sit another week now and have sugar syrup and blue dye added.

I'll make the alcoholic lemonade when the time comes. This stuff gets put in the fridge halfway through ferment to get fiz but not bottle bombs.

The other half bottle of vodka was poured into a jar and stuffed with peaches that SWMBO had bought and let go a bit wrinkly. Hence, to her, inedible. Should make some incrediblly nice peach schnapps. Plus I'm well up for eating the peaches afterwards!

Which brings me to left over fruit wine. The same deal - it's gone a bit wrinkly. So I started chucking "bit wrinkly" fruit in the freezer. Ha! She won't eat it but she damn sure will booze on it! Yesterday's brew was 500g brambles left over from last years harvest, 4 kiwi fruits, 2 passion fruits, 3 apples, a banana, 3 clemantines, all the orange flesh from the curacao making, 300g grapes, 1kg sugar, water to 5 litres. Should be interesting.

Cheers

Gord

[Curious Brew]

I did an alcoholic lemonade ages ago. Search on here for "atomic lemon".