Re:
Posted: Saturday Apr 25, 2009 7:00 pmdrsmurto wrote:Yep, cloves are a spice used to make mulled wine and also in a lot of asian. middle eastern cooking. Supermarkets sell them but asian grocery stores are much cheaper.
Thought i would update you all on this beast.
I put down a version of the GB from scratch that Oliver posted.
Slight variation thanks to the input of you lot! Very Happy
~750 g of ginger
1 cinnamon stick
8 cloves
2 lemons
2kg raw sugar
1 sachet champagne yeast (EC-1118?)
15L. Works out to be ~7%. Mixed 2:1 with lemonade and is very popular,
DrSmurto
G'day DrSmurto
A couple of quick questions
1 - Did you mix the GB with commercial Lemonade?
2 - Stupid qstn but did you add sugar when you bottled it?