Simple Cheap and Tasty, Raspberryade

[Ian_]

Now onto my third batch. Nomnomnom!!

[L2wis]

I brewed some of this and used a whole kilo of sugar in it. I must have left it going for best part of a year, when I went to bottle it the airlock was empty and it'd gone off ... gutted.

[Ian_]

Eek! A KILO?? blimey! Its just about right with 300g in it, might go for 350 in the next batch to see what happens.
Guys at work getting interested in what i'm up to now as i've been printing labels up for the bottles!

Do they do any other flavours?

[far9410]

I started reading this , way back when it first started, so to save me trolling through all the posts, can somebody tell me the definitive recipe for this?

[Ian_]

4500ml water.
1 bottle of unpronounceable polish raspberry stuff.
300-500g sugar.
1 tsp yeasties.

In the FV for up to 14 days then bottle with a carby drop. ignore for another 10 days. Drink. Fall around a lot.


Sugar according to taste, i used 300g and it was dry and bitter, so anything up from that is probably going to be sweeter.

edit:added a nought.

[far9410]

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[Stufat]

450ml water.
1 bottle of unpronounceable polish raspberry stuff.
300-500g sugar.
1 tsp yeasties.

In the FV for up to 14 days then bottle with a carby drop. ignore for another 10 days. Drink. Fall around a lot.


Sugar according to taste, i used 300g and it was dry and bitter, so anything up from that is probably going to be sweeter.

450ml of water??? Not gonna make much.
I started one of these on Saturday, took about 2 days to start bubbling, got me worried but its going along fine now

[Ian_]

Heh, sorry. 4.5l of water!!
Dear oh dear, 450ml of water is gonna be a bloody strong mix !!

[Stufat]

I've not been able to find one of these polish raspberry syrups yet. May have to ask a mate at work who goes to a polish shop each week.
Have picked up a rather posh looking raspberry and grapefruit cordial from waitrose, no preservatives or gunk in it. Will give it a go......just need to buy another one. No spare demijohns at mo, so er.... Drunk it. It's lush

[jmc]

I've not been able to find one of these polish raspberry syrups yet. May have to ask a mate at work who goes to a polish shop each week.
Have picked up a rather posh looking raspberry and grapefruit cordial from waitrose, no preservatives or gunk in it. Will give it a go......just need to buy another one. No spare demijohns at mo, so er.... Drunk it. It's lush

Looks like its on offer at Tesco at the moment at £1 a bottle (to 6/1/13).
£1 as ASda too

see MySupermarket listing for Lowicz Raspberry Syrup (440ml)

[nathanrich]

Hi, I have been noseying around for a while and as a bit of a novice I thought I would I would give this a bash with raspberry bottle

I followed directions and recipe, simple as can be and ended up with a pretty slow starter for which I blame a cold room. Wrapped it in my blanket and added 1tsp of yeast nutrient . Two days on I am having to keep an eye on it incase of a blow out. Im using a 1 gallon PET so no real biggy. It does however smell strong but I do love the smell of raspbs.

P.S I also picked up two 500ml bottles of a coridial that was on offer in Tesco. It was to for 3.50 or something like that. I got them as a) they had different flavours b) they were all natural ingredients. The only preservative was sodium diox, off the top of my head.

I started one, apple and plum, but I didnt boil it because I couldnt be arsed and I wanted to see if it inhibited fermentation but no its going canny. Iused same recipe as Polish stuff but ammended sugar to suit, it looks canny and smells like a weird can of Apple Tango. There are a few flavours if anyone is interested. They all have similar sugar content at about 369g ish per 500 ml bottle. Im starting the elderflower one once a dj or PET opens up.

[afur130173]

Guys at work getting interested in what i'm up to now as i've been printing labels up for the bottles!

Do they do any other flavours?

i too like to make my own labels. polish shops if you can find them usually have a few varieties. mine has strawberry, raspberry, cherry, blackcurrant and orange. they stopped selling the lemon, apple and cola varieties as they were not selling enough.

i made a 9.5% orange and lemon once, rocket fuel and very drinkable once you get past the first mouthful. i am gonna do some hunting for other varieties.

also, i came a cross a chocolate syrup with no preservatives that i think would go well in a stout. not so sure about just brewing it on its own though. alcoholic chocolate doesnt sound very appealing but may be worth the experiment.

[cellone]

Just put on of these on. I look forwad to seeing how it turns out.

[Nikster]

Managed to locate some of the syrup, now sat in my garage bubbling, not spare heat belt so have to go with nature and see how it turns out.

[Bert]

They have the raspberry, strawberry and cherry versions of this syrup for £1 in tesco atm