DIY Bathtub Gin Recipe
DIY Bathtub Gin Recipe: Time to Get Crafty! Fancy a bit of Prohibition-era fun? Making your own batch of bathtub gin today is a cinch!
Equipment
- vegetable peeler
- small saucepan
- quart-size glass jar
- coffee filter
Ingredients
- ½ ounce fresh cilantro use stems and leaves, weigh before washing and drying
- ⅜ ounce lemon or lime peel use a vegetable peeler to get just the peel; Meyer and Bearss lemons are great
- 3 grams fresh marjoram leaves about 2 lightly packed tablespoons, no stems
- 14 to 16 juniper berries available at health food stores and specialty markets
- 2 to 4 green cardamom pods crushed; use more if you love that menthol vibe
- 10 white peppercorns
- 2 ½ teaspoons sugar
- 8 ½ fluid ounces vodka we used Smirnoff
- 3 ⅜ fluid ounces Trebianno white wine a bone-dry Italian white wine, known as Ugni Blanc in France
Instructions
- Pop all the ingredients into a small saucepan.
- Heat over medium-high until bubbles appear at the edges.
- Lower the heat to medium and set a timer for 2 minutes to let those aromatics really open up.
- Turn off the heat, transfer everything to a quart-size glass jar, and cap it.
- Let it steep at room temperature for 18 to 24 hours.
- Strain through a paper coffee filter, and voilà! Your homemade gin is ready to sip and savor.