Fresh fruit lemongrass sugar salt water and club soda required not included.
Make your own tonic water kit.
Hi i made the tonic during the week yesterday it was ready i prepared a little batch of syrup.
Once you taste really good tonic water homemade or a good brand like q or fever tree it s hard to go back to the commercial stuff.
Tonic water is a popular mixer for alcoholic beverages and can be used to make flavored sodas.
To obtain a super clear tonic try using a agaragar filter.
It has much more flavor than any tonic water you can buy.
Why make your own.
The kit includes enough cinchona citric acid lemongrass cubeb pepper and jamaican allspice to make about 1 quart of concentrate enough for 30 60 tonic waters depending how strong you like it.
All particals cling to agar and wont pass but flavor.
What is tonic water exactly.
The plastic bag contained a recipe card and several.
My brother in law sent a self contained make your own tonic water kit from the oakland spice shop.
Liam boylan if you re unhappy with the flavor of commercial tonics and like to geek out in the kitchen diy tonic is a lot of fun.
You can make your own citrus tonic water at home with just water sugar cinchona bark ginger and citrus fruits.
As we generally consume it it s a soft drink that s sweet and bitter and citrusy.
Some of the ingredients involved in making tonic are hard to find or expensive but laurel bay tonic water kits give you exactly what you need in the right amounts so you don t wind up buying pounds of herbs and spices.
To make the tonic all you have to do is prepare a simple syrup add the citrus ingredients and strain the liquid before storing it.
It s basically like tea.
After reading all comment i had high hopes and was a little disappointed but i think that the problem was the sparkling water a newly opened san pelegrino bottle but it lost it s bubbles to quickly so my g t was a little bland it was like gin diluted in water with bitterness.
When syrup is diluted yields 4 6 7 8 gallons of tonic water depending on dilution rate.
It s way cheaper and it tastes way better.
Next day take out of freezer and defrost in double cheese cloth.
Freeze when dropped to room temp.
Tonic is a non alcoholic beverage.
Well you know what tonic water is.
Make ur infusion i actually 1st make a large cinchona mix then a few base mixes mix 1 1 5 grams of agaragar to 500ml liquid.
If you re making your own tonic water like with laurel bay tonic water kits tonic is an infusion.
Tonic making kit yields 120 144 oz of concentrated tonic syrup depending on amount of sweetener used.
The main ingredients in tonic are herbs spices fruits and sugar.
This basic recipe goes well with gin and is a great starting point for playing with your own unique herb and spice combinations.
Don t let the brownish tint scare you homemade tonic is awesome.
Lynn and carol.