Batch 24: More Krupnick!
Last Saturday (June 26), while we were brewing the elderberry mead, we also brewed up a batch of krupnick.
Peter brought some commercially produced krupnick, which I'd never had before. It was good, but not as intense as the stuff we make.
PARTICIPANTS
Lady Claire
Peter
Brynjolf
SPICE LIST
20 Allspice berries
1 oz. Juniper berries, broken
1 oz. quality cinnamon sticks
20 cloves
1/2 tsp cardamom seed
1/4 tsp tumeric powder
3 vanilla beans
3 heaping tsp aniseed
1 cracked nutmeg
PROCESS
Spices were added to a hops bag and put in a pot with 8 oz. water, then boiled until volume was reduced to less than half.
We then added 5 pounds of clover honey and allowed to cool. Through a miscommunication, the heat was turned on again, so the honey was boiled for a few minutes.
When luke-warm, we added 1500 ml Luksosawa potato vodka.
The batch was split into three bottles. Peter and karen each got a 750 ml bottle, and I got a 1500 ml bottle. After aging, my bottle will be split into 750 ml for me and 750 ml for the Shire cellars. There was about 350 ml left over, which I gave to Karen as thanks for letting us demolish her kitchen.
In focusing on the mead, we forgot to add orange extract to the krupnick, so the 750 ml bottles each got 1/4 tsp added directly, while the 1500 got 1/2 tsp.
Peter brought some commercially produced krupnick, which I'd never had before. It was good, but not as intense as the stuff we make.
PARTICIPANTS
Lady Claire
Peter
Brynjolf
SPICE LIST
20 Allspice berries
1 oz. Juniper berries, broken
1 oz. quality cinnamon sticks
20 cloves
1/2 tsp cardamom seed
1/4 tsp tumeric powder
3 vanilla beans
3 heaping tsp aniseed
1 cracked nutmeg
PROCESS
Spices were added to a hops bag and put in a pot with 8 oz. water, then boiled until volume was reduced to less than half.
We then added 5 pounds of clover honey and allowed to cool. Through a miscommunication, the heat was turned on again, so the honey was boiled for a few minutes.
When luke-warm, we added 1500 ml Luksosawa potato vodka.
The batch was split into three bottles. Peter and karen each got a 750 ml bottle, and I got a 1500 ml bottle. After aging, my bottle will be split into 750 ml for me and 750 ml for the Shire cellars. There was about 350 ml left over, which I gave to Karen as thanks for letting us demolish her kitchen.
In focusing on the mead, we forgot to add orange extract to the krupnick, so the 750 ml bottles each got 1/4 tsp added directly, while the 1500 got 1/2 tsp.