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Happy Friday! Gin and tonic with homemade spruce bitters.
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Have a MZ that is gonna meet the liver during campfire time.
 
Sounds awesome! Details on the homemade bitters?


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Grabbed it from a site called Belly to Bacon except I added a teaspoon of wormwood to mine in addition to some other goodies. Spruce tips were from blue spruces that line a hedge row in my back yard. I figured it was time to put those trees to work.

Spruce Tip Bitters

2 cup spruce tips
1/2 star anise
1 cardamom pod
1 teaspoon coriander
1 teaspoon wormwood
Zest from 1/2 grapefruit
Half zest off a tiny key lime

1 cup moonshine
Step one: Combine all ingredients in a jar. Shake every few days for a month.

Step two: Strain into a bottle/jar.
 
Haha...that is super old but I'm catching up FAST. I just don't encounter many 50 year old + hop heads, so I thought it was cool. But I'll stick with my Two Hearted and 60 Minute. I do have a handful of High Life in the cooler.

That is awesome! Bring over a high life and let the stories ensue! (of course, pack a two-hearted in case he curls his nose up at the HL)! All-Day is basically my desert island beer, anyone that drinks more than one is awesome in my book.
 
Grabbed it from a site called Belly to Bacon except I added a teaspoon of wormwood to mine in addition to some other goodies. Spruce tips were from blue spruces that line a hedge row in my back yard. I figured it was time to put those trees to work.



Spruce Tip Bitters



2 cup spruce tips

1/2 star anise

1 cardamom pod

1 teaspoon coriander

1 teaspoon wormwood

Zest from 1/2 grapefruit

Half zest off a tiny key lime



1 cup moonshine

Step one: Combine all ingredients in a jar. Shake every few days for a month.



Step two: Strain into a bottle/jar.




Awesome- thanks!
On to beer number 2.

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Umm.... Is it just me, or is the little one giving the Bronx cheer?

Anyway... Been a while since camping, jealous!

Grabbed it from a site called Belly to Bacon except I added a teaspoon of wormwood to mine in addition to some other goodies. Spruce tips were from blue spruces that line a hedge row in my back yard. I figured it was time to put those trees to work.

Spruce Tip Bitters

2 cup spruce tips
1/2 star anise
1 cardamom pod
1 teaspoon coriander
1 teaspoon wormwood
Zest from 1/2 grapefruit
Half zest off a tiny key lime

1 cup moonshine
Step one: Combine all ingredients in a jar. Shake every few days for a month.

Step two: Strain into a bottle/jar.

Rocking! Going back to email myself - I love a good Manhattan, and I have a big bitters collection.

Now, on topic - bathing the little one, Great Return 1 & 2.

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Umm.... Is it just me, or is the little one giving the Bronx cheer?


Haha. I did a double take on that too


This is my next beer, and I've been looking forward to finishing this so I can move onto it! Cheers!



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Homebrew Citra IPA to start the night.



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Cheers! That was my first White Rajah. Damn good! Now onto an Old 21 DIPA from Brew Kettle. Not as good. Probably should have opened it sooner
 
B. Stiff...root beer, from Oskar Blues in Brevard, NC. Also...the beer can arch leading to the tap room. No DD, so had to make my purchase and leave 😭. Would love to have had a flight...or tried the Cask of Green Tea something or other. Alas, SWMBO was in no mood to accompany or accommodate. Funky place, though!

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