I need some help

[wildcatter]

Crush a few in the butter in the frying pan when you cook your grouse breast and finish the demi glaze with chardonnay and a little flour .Drizzle over the breasts and roasted baby potatoes.Heaven!Seriously Juniper berries and grouse were meant for eachother.

That looks delicious.
I have to try if I get a grouse.

[HarryToolips]

Thanks all, I figured it was juniper but I wanted to check as on the distillers site I use they said there were poisonous trees in the woods that looked the same as juniper. I have never heard of any but thought I would check with one of my main "brain trusts" and that is of course you guys. Arctic Lake, if you're up this way after I get some gin made you are more than welcome to come on up and give it a try. Have you tried Urban Distillers Gin? It's amazing but as I have a bunch of my high test sitting around I thought I would give making gin a try.

Off the top of my head maybe they are referring to the yew because I know that is poisonous...

[MichelD]

Those are green you need the drier blue ones.

[last light]

Crush a few in the butter in the frying pan when you cook your grouse breast and finish the demi glaze with chardonnay and a little flour .Drizzle over the breasts and roasted baby potatoes.Heaven!Seriously Juniper berries and grouse were meant for eachother.

Looks delicious, what time of year did you harvest the berries? TIA

[elimsprint]

Those are green you need the drier blue ones.

They looked quite blue when I walked past the bush at 5:30 this morning, lol. I'm going to try a small batch of gin with these and wait for them to ripen up before I try a bigger batch. At least I know they are juniper so I will just keep an eye on them now. I saw 3 nice whitey bucks about 5 minutes before I came up to the juniper so I'm sure I'll be close to there in the fall

[elimsprint]

Crush a few in the butter in the frying pan when you cook your grouse breast and finish the demi glaze with chardonnay and a little flour .Drizzle over the breasts and roasted baby potatoes.Heaven!Seriously Juniper berries and grouse were meant for eachother.

That looks really good but I see so few grouse lately that I just don't have the heart to shoot them. I honestly see way more elk than I do grouse, what's the world coming to????

[RICKADY]

Can do the same with Cypress Berries/seeds, just a little bit more pungent,
nothing that a little gin won't fix,
Rickady

[horseman2]

Yew berries are red.

Years ago, after reading the sourdoughs started their starter using yew berries.
I collected a number one fall and had a great starter for a few years.
My bread was not true sourdough as Instant yeast was also used but it did impart a nice flavor.

[elimsprint]

The first 2 jars of gin are aging. The first is Odins easy gin which is just juniper, coriander and orange peel (I couldn't find a tangerine) and the second has cardamom, angelica root, and a couple of peppercorns added. These are really the second and third attempts as the first one with the green berries was terrible, even I couldn't drink it These were both done with in the boiler maceration and don't seem to have a really strong gin smell, it's there but not in your face like I want. The next one is going to have a week or 2 of maceration before it hits the boiler. I found the mother of all juniper bushes, it probably has 100# of berries on it, so I have enough berries for this years gin making, lol.

[boxhitch]

Did you taste test the berries?
I heard they are best after a frost

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