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SARA’S CHOCOLATE SIN

in blender

  • 1 cup hot fudge syrup
  • 1 cup Kahlua
  • 1 1/2 cup chocolate mousse ice cream
  • 1 tablespoon mint or raspberry extract
  • 1/2 cup crushed ice

blend and fold for 1 min.
or until everything is mixed in
sprinkle cocoa powder and cinnamon
&/or crushed espresso beans
in glass, and pour in.

Jack’s Coffee.

Load to grinder

  • One scoop coffee beans-your choice
  • One scoop Cocoa Beans
  • “Herbs” of your choice,
  • Kava kava, licorice, mint, strawberries, orange rind
  • whatever you’ve got hanging around

Grind and Brew

DRAGONS BLOOD

One shot each of:

  • Blackberry brandy
  • 151 Bacardi
  • Absolute
  • Grenadine
  • Kahlua

Serve cold in a frosted goblet with a sliver of dry ice.

MEAD: Drink of the Gods

Bob the Bear’s Basement Mead

  • Approx 2 cups hops flowers
  • 1/3 cup cinnamon sticks broken
  • 1/3 cup damiana
  • 1/3 cup catnip
  • 2/3 cups crushed whole cloves
  • 1 pound brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup each:
    • sage leaf
    • valerian
    • lemon balm
    • star anise
  • 6 pounds honey

Heat all in a 2-3 gallon stew pot, (don’t Boil)
When hot and well mixed Put into carbouy with airlock and keep in warm place for 6 weeks
Or when the fermentation is done

the other version

  • 6 pounds honey
  • 1/2 cups cinnamon sticks broken
  • crushed nutmegs
  • star anise
  • cloves

As before heat to simmer again-DO NOT BOIL.
After heat is off, add 3 tablespoons malt powder mix in
Put in carbouy w/ airlock and store for 6 weeks

Magewine for Masses

3 lb. honey per gallon of hot spring water
Add 1 campden tablet per 2 1/2 gallon and let sit overnight.
Mix one packet Pasture yeast with yeastfood and add after 24 hours
Wait 6 weeks (PRIMARY FERMENTATION)then rack 4 gallons of mead into clean 5 gallon carbouys. (dump dead yeasties) Then make one gallon of tea for each 4 gallons mead.(to equal the 5 gallons).

Herb Tea

3 cups Hops
1 1/2 cups:

  • Damiana
  • Saw Palmetto
  • Catnip
  • Valerian
  • Mugwart
  • Cloves

I cup ea.:

  • Sage
  • Cinnimon
  • Star Anise
  • Lemon Balm
  • Poppy Seed

1/2 cup Fresh Orange Peel chopped

Squeeze all the tea from the mash and add to carboys (SECONDARY FERMENTATION) wait for 4-6 weeks bottle and keep chilled

Magewine for Madmen

Follow the same instructions for Magewine, However in this brew, the tea mixture is different.

  • 4 cups Hops
  • 2 cups ea.:
    • Damiana
    • Saw Palmetto
    • Catnip
    • Mugwart
    • Valerian
    • Wormwood
  • 1 cup ea.:
    • Cinnimon
    • Cloves

Allow to sit for 8 weeks or until you can see through jug.

WARNING beware who drinks this! These are HEAVY herbs! I take no responsibility for what you do after drinking. But please stay in one place!

Brian’s Mead Recipe

Mix 3 lb. honey with enough water to make a gallon.

(If you heated the honey to mix easier, let it cool before going on…)

Add one pinch Fleischmanns Bread Yeast.

Cap loosely and let it sit at room temp for several months.

ABSINTHE:

A collection of recipes:from various times

“Sweet and Sticky Insecticide”.

10 teaspoons dried Wormwood
1 (750) bottle 190 proof Clear Springs
mix and let sit overnight.
Strain & Cut 50/50 with 1 bottle Pernod

TO SERVE
Put one lump sugar under 1/4 cup crushed ice
mix 1 shot Absinthe to 3-5 shots water &
pour over ice

French 1890′s

Using tinctures

oils of:

  • wormwood: 36 drops
  • orange peel: 30
  • star anise: 12
  • neroli petate: 5
  • lemon: 9
  • acetic ether: 24

sugar: 30 avoirdupois oz.
deodorized alcohol: 90 fl. oz.
Distilled water: 78 fl. oz.
Dissolve oils and ether in alcohol, sugar in water. Then mix in the color green and filter clear.

British 1890′s

  • oils of :
    • wormwood: 96 drops
    • star anise: 72
    • aniseed: 48
    • coriander: 48
    • fennel: 48
    • angelica root : 24
    • thyme: 24
  • alcohol: 162 fluid oz
  • distilled water: 30 fl. oz.

Dissolve oils in alcohol and water. Color green and filter to clear.

The 1855 Way

To make 1 Liter:

  • 25.0g wormwood
  • 50.0g anise
  • 50.0g fennel

Muddle together
Soak in 950ml of 190 proof grain alcohol for 12 hours,
add 450ml water
Distill to 950ml distillate,
remove 40ml distillate and add:

  • 10.0g wormwood
  • 10.0g hyssop
  • 5.0g lemon balm

Extract these at moderate temp.
Siphon off liquor, strain and filter.
Add remaining 550 ml distillate dilute with water to 11.

1931`Mari Gras Style

  • 1 pint vodka
  • 2 tsp. crumbled wormwood
  • 2 tsp. anise seed
  • 1/2 tsp. fennel seed
  • 4 cardamom pods
  • 1 tsp. marjoram
  • 1/2 tsp. ground coriander
  • 2 tsp. chopped angelica root
  • 1 2/3 cups sugar syrup

pour vodka in large jar w/ tight lid. Add wormwood and shake steep 48 hours and strain. crush seeds and pods in mortar. Add all to vodka and place in warmth for 1 week. add sugar syrup to taste.

1922 NYC

  • 1 tsp. wormwood
  • 1 cup vodka
  • 2 tsp. mint leaves
  • 1 piece lemon peel
  • 1/3 cup sugar syrup

steep wormwood in vodka for 48 hours, strain and add other spices. steep for 8 days. strain and sweeten.

1921 London

  • 2 tsp. peppermint
  • ” thyme
  • ” hyssop
  • ” sage
  • ” wormwood
  • ” lavender
  • ” marjoram
  • 2 pints port wine

Steep herbs for one week. Filter and bottle.