The bottling technique: Add your spirit to a Kilner jar or another sealable container. Make sure your kit is clean and sterile to avoid the spirit going bad. Then add your infusing ingredient and leave it to leach into the spirit. Here's a rough time guide:Leave strong chilli, vanilla, cardamom or citrus for less than a day.Hardy spices and strong-flavoured veg will need five to seven days.Berries and strong fruit can take around three to four weeks to impart as much flavour as possible.Milder ingredients like apple or florals will take up to a month.

Method: Serve long over ice and garnish with the fresh lime wedge. J.J. Whitley Nettle Gin with Lamb & Watt Basil Our Nettle Liqueur is definitely a more earthy affair than that, but is equally simple to make, and really tastes rather good. We try to despatch all products by Royal Mail second class post within 3 working days. If you are purchasing for a birthday try using the note box to send them a birthday wish and we will enclose a postcard with your text handwritten. Also let us know the birthday date and if its time critical we will try to make sure it arrives on time, by early despatch, or upgrading you to first class post. Delightful gin. Light and refreshing. Serve with tonic, ice, lemon wheel and a sprig of basil or mint. Just lovely. All our gin liqueurs work in sparkling water but Stinging Nettle in particular makes a refreshing gin spritzer.....try it with ice and a slice of lemon, or lime and grapefruit is awesome too !!We haven’t tried this one yet but we’d love to… how beautiful does it look?! Dodd’s Gin partnered up with Kew Gardens in London to make produce Kew Gardens Organic Gin. Its peculiarity stands in using seasonal flora from Kew Gardens as part of the 42 botanicals that come from all around the world. Ingredients: 35ml Liverpool Valencian Orange Gin, 125ml Lamb & Watt Hibiscus Tonic Water, 25ml freshly squeezed pink grapefruit juice, 1 tsp pomegranate seeds, grapefruit zest to garnish It has a pleasant earthy taste, and you definitely know its nettle based, with a taste reminiscent of the Nettle Cordial we made last year. A liqueur is simply a sweetened alcoholic beverage made from a distilled spirit such as vodka that has been flavored. Over the 48 hours our infusion got progressively darker, and to be honest I expected it to taste pretty disgusting when I tried it, but in fact it tastes really rather good.

When you're happy with the flavour, sieve to remove any solids, then pass through a very fine piece of muslin or a coffee filter to get rid of any sediment. Rose Cottage is the owners' family home built by his father in the 1950's and at the time was the only thatched home in the North East of England. Pour the gin into a glass filled with ice. Top it with light tonic water and garnish with a lime wedge. Fruit, cream, herbs, spices, flowers or nuts are the traditional choices, but you will also find some more imaginative creations on the internet including various candy concoctions such as Skittle Vodka. Method: Serve long over ice and garnish with a thin slice of ginger and a wedge of lemon. Whitley Neill Quince Gin with Lamb & Watt Cucumber Tonic

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To make I collected approximately 40 nettle tops, which I washed and dried in a salad spinner, and then popped in a jar with the zest of 2 lemons.