Sunday, January 27, 2008

lastest batch of rootbeer

5 lbs corn sugar, 4 gals water from pur, 1 cup Iowa Kennedy honey, 1 tblspn mexican vanilla extract, 1 pack gnome.

cooked on med high for longer to get rid of the honey crystals.

in the fridge to chill, want to transfer it to the 2.5 gal keg to take to jeff's superbowl party. I think I'll carb it first before moving.

looked at counterpressure fillers, and roots at midwest. I found in my book a couple recipes that make only a little more than a gal which works great for the little keg. Once the gnome is gone I'm off on my own recipes. Got a cream soda to do next.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

hot sauce

all my peppers, stems cut off, into the food processor with 4 cloves garlic chopped, ran it for several minutes, added about 3 tablespoons vinegar, and half tablespoon celery salt. Also, tablespoon dried onion flakes.

put in about 2-3 tablespoons water, cooked, forgot about and it boiled over.

it thickened up though, I froze it in individual containers about a half cup in each.

warm. Need to post some reviews to these things.

want to go with pat or on my own to a pepper place in belle plaine, new prague, Pepper yoda is there.

I like finding these yoda's. I wonder if i'll be one someday.

diet sprechers

sister gave me a gallon of low cal sprechers for xmas and a package of draft gnome.
made the low cal sprechers, 1 gal to 4.5 gal of water, foamed up quite a bit when pouring into the keg. force carbed at 35 lbs, this time after chilling keg for one day I sat it on my lap and then shook, rocked it to force carb, after it sat a day or so the flavor really improved. I pulled it off to put on a keg of 1919 for the cavalier new years party. very tasty. I was able to pull the keg off and then retap one day later, still tasted good, with the force carbing I can ensure not alot of gas loss.

The last batch, think i called it the 3rd batch turned out pretty good. i think i'll make another gnome and try bottling next, I've been reading about using counter pressure filler to bottle, that way you can make sure the the liquid doesn't lose gas. Next I need jill to do a logo for my label, i got a recipe book from carol and I'm thinking it'd be fun to try to make the extract myself.