Day 266/365: Booze!

[nanila]

I asked for rhubarb gin as my birthday presents, and my siblings-out-law delivered. Well, Amazon Prime did the delivery but the sibs, bless them, believe me when I say I desire something, and thus ordered exactly what I wanted.

Cue receiving two types of rhubarb-and-ginger gin. Please forgive the quality of the photos. I'd been drinking, you see.


From one set of out-laws: Jawbox Small Batch Rhubarb & Ginger Gin Liqueur and a fancy gin glass. The cocktail contains ice cubes, soda water, and a small piece of crystallised ginger. It was lovely.


From the other set of outlaws: Whitley Neill Rhubarb & Ginger Gin. The cocktail contains ice cubes, soda water, and ajika salt. Ajika is a Georgian/Abkhaz spice. We call it "crack salt", as everything savoury that you sprinkle it on instantly becomes 100x more edible. Anyway, it may sound a peculiar thing to put in a cocktail, but it was the perfect complement to this gin.

One other exciting occurrence was buying a Kilner jar and foraging a big lot of perfectly ripe damsons with the children. Then going home, putting all the damsons in the jar and submerging them in sugar and vodka, along with a bit of pear and apple. This should be ready to drink around Christmas time.


I know I'm getting old when making my own liqueurs from foraged fruit is a highlight of my birthday!

Comments

[wohali]

This all looks super awesome and delicious. I envy your selection of gins!

Happy Happy and all that :)

[nanila]

Thank you! Yes, I shall be savouring these. :)

[hamsterwoman]

Your homemade liqueur-to-be sounds delicious and intriguing! I look forward to hearing about the taste test in a few months :)

(And anything made with foraged ingredients is 100x better automatically :D)

[nanila]

Me too! And thank you for reminding me to go an give the jar a shake this morning. :)

[silveradept]

Hooray, boozes! Hopefully they're all going to be delicious and useful.

[nanila]

I do believe they will be coming in very handy over the cold dark months. :)

[marymac]

Oooo. I had a go at the Jawbox liqueurs at the whiskey social I took my dad to a couple of weeks back, the rhubarb even my gin hating father enjoyed! The pineapple is questionable though.

[nanila]

See, normally, I'm a proponent of the philosophy that pineapple can go with everything (because I love pineapple). But pineapple gin does cause me to raise eyebrow.

[marymac]

Put it this way, they' local to us, so the independent offie got given six bottles of it when they came out with it and they still have six and they can't get any of the staff to try it and those boys will drink anything once.

[lurkingcat]

All of those look delicious and amazing. There should be more cocktails with ginger in them.

[nanila]

I agree!

[ironed_orchid]

Those all look and sound amazing.

[nanila]

Well, I can vouch for the first two being so, but the third will have to wait for a couple of months to be put to the test. :)

[uninvitedcat]

Your post has made me thirsty - those all sound *delicious*!

[nanila]

They are great. I had the Jawbox with a bit of ginger and Innocent summer fruit juice last night. It was lovely.