Time to bottle the homemade rhubarb gin

If you have followed me for a while you may of seen my post on making some flavoured gin with a lot of home grown rhubarb from the garden. If not check out the link below

https://steemit.com/food/@digitaldan/i-m-making-rhubarb-gin

Well I feel like it’s time to get this in the bottles to free up the jar for some other exciting food/drink experiments i have planned

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Lets hope its been worth the wait

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The first thing to do was gather all the bits together with the jar of Rhubarb gin, the bottles after been sterilised and labels attached and a funnel to make sure no gin was wasted through spillages 😅

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Flip top for the win

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I got these bottles from wilkinsons in the UK they stock a lot of great household and kitchen things but also have a great range of jars/bottles and containers for preserving and homebrewing. These will last a very long time no doubt but one of the reasons I choose these over reusing other glass bottles is the nice appearance will be handy if I wanted to gift/barter with them down the line

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not quite two full bottles

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I’ve ended up with a little over a full bottle and a half which isn't bad, I’s i had some cheese cloth i could of probably squeezed a lot more out of the rhubarb but that wasn’t an option this time (but its been added to the list of things to buy when i can)

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Pink Gin!

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The bottles really don’t do this gin justice its taken on a beautiful soft colour and im not going to lie me and the wife had a pretty good swig of this and the taste is amazing, it's not too sweet which is something I was really worried about from the original recipe and added a fraction of the sugar it mentioned, the taste of rhubarb is strong but not overpowering and should develop a little with time i hope. This is one i will definitely be doing again, and again when the garden allows

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Safely tucked back up in the rack

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Once they were bottled up i had to quickly tuck them back up in the rack as the temptation is there pour a glass and i don’t want to use them straight away.

I hope you like the pictures, the labels i used will be getting a mention in my next post or two when i start labelling up all the jars in the pantry and I’m sure you’d agree they look pretty snazzy :D

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As always thank you so much for taking the time to read, upvote, resteem and especially commenting on my posts these small acts of appreciation and encouragement really help me to keep going 👍

All the best

Dan