Gooseberries

[6Trails]

I have 2.4kg of red and green gooseberries in my freezer. Initially I was going to make a Philly sour beer with some in it or make a MJ apple cider kit with some added to it, but I was wondering if there's some better route I could go using the lot of them? Could I make a cider from scratch with them or would the kit be the best base for it?

 

[Clint]

Crumble or fool.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

+1 to fool, particularly with red ones.

I suspect they're the sort of thing that are a bit too subtle to effectively flavour a drink.

 

[jof]

Use the red ones to make gooseberry gin (like making sloe gin)
But unlike sloes, you can eat the gooseberries at the end.

 

[Clint]

Ooof! Great idea! I done plum,blackberry, blackcurrant and rhubarb.

 

[dmtaylor]

They're so darn good on toast or crumpets, I won't waste mine for anything else.

 

[SMP Brewery]

Gooseberries on toast! How whole, squashed with sugar I’m intrigued.

 

[MashBag]

Ooof! Great idea! I done plum,blackberry, blackcurrant and rhubarb.

Fool?

 

[MashBag]

Gooseberries on toast! How whole, squashed with sugar I’m intrigued.

Now I can understand that. Oh yes, that's gotta be tried.

 

[6Trails]

Cheers all. Might stick with the sour for some of it (I used 800g of fruit in the same brew before a couple of times) and then the rest on something edible rather than for drinking.

 

[Clint]

Fool?

Gin!

 

[jof]

Gin!

Gin every time. Then 3 months later you can use those gooseberries in a fool & still have your gin to wash it down

 

[MashBag]

Full marks

 

[Clint]

I got a few jars of plum gin in storage (2 years) still on the fruit. Looks like summit from draculas castle!