I'm Making Rhubarb Gin! 🍸😀

What more can I say I love my garden, greenhouse and the great things it grows for me, one other thing that I love is sitting there as the sun goes down with a cold crisp drink, To be honest most of the time it’s a soft drink or a coffee but if I’ve work extra hard I can claim a treat.

Flavoured gin’s

I’ve made a few of these over the years and I have always found them great with my favourites been homemade damson and sloe gins, this year I’m thinkgin of branching out and trying some new types.

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lets make some gin!

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Storm damage

I’ve been away a few days and came back to very sorry looking rhubarb plant either the winds have been to strong or someone has taken a dive in it as its looking rather limp and has a fair few stems broken. Rather than let them go to waste and to have a change from the usual rhubarb and crumble I’m going to give this a whirl, hopefully it won’t result in the wasting of a bottle of gin

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Stems broken due to wind

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This was super simple to get to this point and it involved the following

• Lots of rhubarb
• A glass jar
• Some sugar
• And a bottle of gin

The first thing I did was to wash and cut out any damaged or bad bits of the rhubarb

Once this was done it was cut into smaller chunks that were then put into the jars that had been cleaned.

Once I had managed to get enough rhubarb into the jars I then added roughly 50-100g of sugar to each and then gave them a good shake, the recipe online I saw called for 500g of sugar for one of those jars, the thought of that amount of sugar just make me feel sick. depending on the taste I may have to add more down the line, but we will see.

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Adding in the sugar to jars

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So the last bit to do is to give it a good shake to get the sugar around as this will help to draw out the amazing flavours of the rhubarb, leave it for 24 hours to let the to top it up with gin. The hard part is it needs to be left to infuse for the next 5 weeks then it will be decanted into bottles and drank at every appropriate opportunity haha 😀

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Waiting for the gin to be added

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All the best

Dan