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I'm planning to revive in my family one of regional traditions of Poland. It goes like this: Serve wine from a wooden (usually oaken) barrel during baptism party of your child. After the party, fill it with vodka and bury it in soil. Dig it out when the child is getting married and serve vodka from it during the wedding party. I didn't find any tips in the web and I've never talked to somebody that has tried this. I …
in my country it's illegal to buy or sell alcoholic drinks. so I started trying to make them at home. I make vodka by distillation and it tastes good as any other vodka. A few days ago I bought non alcoholic beer from store and it was sugar-free type (which people who don't want get fat use), I added some vodka to my non alcoholic beer (by simple calculation it should contain 9% alcohol). today I opened a bottle and …
Is it possible to use normal yeast from tesco (for baking) to make vodka? I want to try making it in a 2 litre bottle since I'm space limited but could buy a 5 litre bottle in the future. How much of the yeast and how sugar would I need to add to a 2 litre bottle to make a decent amount of vodka? How much time would it take to brew and how strong would it be? Also whats …
So I have recently been looking into making my own vodka and/or gin. The laws around producing drinks like these in the UK don't see, very clear, so I was hoping someone here had more experience in it. I know it's illegal in the UK to produce spirits with a still, without the proper license. It also appears to be illegal to produce spirits in any other way, within the UK. The confusion comes around the use of the word …
I'm hoping to get some confirmation on what is probably a stupid question. I'm getting ready to rack a chocolate coffee milk stout and am going to be using nibs for the first time. I understand soaking them in vodka for ~2 weeks is ideal for a lot of reasons so that is the route I've gone. My question is- do you add in all of the soaked nibs + vodka? Or do you drain the vodka and only add …
How would one calculate the ABV of a beer if distilled spirits were added? For instance, when making a beer recipe that called for adding bourbon as a flavoring agent. If you started with, say, 5 US gallons of beer at 5% ABV and you added 1 quart of "80 proof" spirits, how would one calculate the resulting ABV?