Used Damsons

[charlie]

I've just bottled my Damson Gin and it seems a shame to throw the damsons away, and the gin residue might produce something interesting as well.

Hawkshead Brewery at Stavely do a very nice Damson Stout, but what I thought I might do is add them to secondary under airlock of soething light like 100% satisfaction and then leave to infuse for a few months before kegging.

Comments welcome.

All pretty academic at the moment as, having attended hospital on Wednesday 25/4/7, I am now in the same situation as DAAB and am not allowed to lift anything for eight weeks, please don't make me laugh.

But it leaves plenty of time for planning and as soon as I can round up some help to keg the 5 galls I've got in primary at the moment I'll have four full kegs, so no real urgency there either.

[SteveD]

A friend of ours lives in Zummerzet and he makes sloe Gin and Brandy. A local in the pub asked him what he did with the sloes after they'd been used. Chuck'em he said.

"Eee don't wanna do thaarrt. Fill thur jarr with soider and wait fur two or three weeks. Then eee've gart sloe soider. Luvverly"

And it is!! To translate into English. Once you've decanted the spirit, leave the sloes and spirit ullage in place and re-fill the jar with cider. They'd use Scrumpy, or any rough country cider. Smoothes it out a treat. Close it off and leave it 2 or 3 weeks, but no more, and then enjoy on a hot day.

I see no reason why it wouldn't work with damsons as well.