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Francois_346702

First tryout at home made Tonic Syrup. Kick ass...

Will post a proper drink picture later...

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lfmichaud

Had great experience making my own syrup. Care to share your recipe?

Francois_346702

I started by using an old post from here: https://www.chefsteps.com/forum/search?q=tonic

I also made this one, which is my favorite: https://pinchandswirl.com/homemade-tonic-water-for-the-ultimate-gin-and-tonic/

I'd be happy to get other receipes...

douglas_bd

Nice!...I've got some Cinchona bark and have been waiting to try this. Been making lots of my own bitters. Made some absinthe bitters with wormwood, fennel, aniseed, etc. Crazy bitter but so good. Did you buy quinine, or use bark for the extract? The jar on the left says 4% - how did you measure that? Refractometer? Extracted into water?

Francois_346702

Hi Brian,

I would be keen if you could share your bitters, especially the absinth one ! I am in the process of making bitters as well... So any new recipe is welcome!

I used powdered quinine, which needs to be carefully filtered to avoid particulate quinine in the final syrup, which can be toxic at high doses. The 4% are 4% in weight, so 4g of powdered quinine in 100g of water, then the whole thing filtered. So yes, technically its not a real concentration as I filtered the powder. It comes from this recipe:

https://food52.com/blog/10833-how-to-make-quinine-syrup-for-a-better-gin-and-tonic

Cheers,

douglas_bd

Thanks! I'll pull out my notes and send you my 'recipe' for the absinthe bitters. Hard to call it a recipe as it was really just me throwing a bunch of extractables into the siphon in a ratio that seemed reasonable. It's iteration #1 of the absinthe bitters, and will probably last me quite a while before I get to iteration #2. I've been making vastly different variations on bitters just to play around with the different flavor profiles and haven't focused on really improving any specific recipe. I've used a couple of sources as inspiration - Liquid Intelligence (orange bitters), Chefsteps (coffee bitters, bitters #13), Modernist Cuisine, and various other bitters books.

Francois_346702

Hi Brian,

Any chance you found yoru absinthe note?

Correction to my previous post, its not 4g of quinine in 100g of water, but 100g of alcohol!

Thanks