I thought I best go through how I got to the above stage in more detail. Just for everyone here:
All the indrediants are available anywhere in the world really, you just need to sorce them:
Don't "That Will Do" and use cinnamon ground for instance. Try and get as authentic and as it comes straight from the tree. You could use Chris's video as a guide for ingrediants. Fresher the better.
The top 3 in the list are all Dry ingrediants that will need rehydrating. I used wheat beer for this as it was Made in Germany and they only make beer without chemicals etc.... part of their beer making laws so I've heard. Anyway, I couldn't find anything "Organic" to use so I thought this was a good alternative. This is what I meant earlier by mentioning just gathering ingrediants can take a lot of time. So this is a long old process. But it it worth it? Well let me try and see :-)
So......
Good old wheat beer.
Fill the jars 1/3 material, all 3 of them, then fill up the kilners 3/4 with the beer. I tended to go just over half way, to give me more room for the sugar.
I then left these for 24 Hours with the lids on.
You can then sit back, relax a little and do some more OHN research until you're ready to start fermenting.
After your 24 hours you can take your next 2 wet ingrediants.
So.......
Mash up the ......(maybe think of someone who annoys you? Get some anger out!) Garlic roughly and 1/3 fill the jar.
Then take the Ginger and do the same.
Remember to purchase the same sized jars for this, so be prepared, you'll need at least 6! 7 makes things easier weighing up:
Now you can start mixing your brown sugar equal weight to your wet material in the 2 jars.
Make sure you stamp down all your wet ingrediants down well in the jars, you don't want any air pockets.
Then do the same with your re-hydrated materials. Add the sugar, then leave it for 7 days.
Then after leaving the pots covered with cheese cloth, and left somewhere dark and cool. It's time to start stopping the fermentation process and add in your high alcohol, i.e. vokda.
Then left for a further 2 weeks, which get's me to this point I am at today.
I suggest that if you are able, to try watch the video as I have, many times
Take notes, check your notes and ensure you know every stage
Primarily looking at this process it seems much like a long stretched cooking recipe. But that way it is easy to forget about things and forget to stir every day, each jar seperately after adding your vokda.
If all goes well I'll be selling this, just make sure you don't have to re-mortgage the house
A lot of effort, so let's hope it's worth it?
