It was a bit of a cool day and cloudy, yet we still wanted to take a walk, so we headed over to Fullerton Creek Conservation Park in Stratford (just east of Charlottetown) and enjoyed some lovely, nature-filled walking.....
Cattails
Yarrow
Goldenrod
We were rained on a bit, but at least this time we had our rain jackets with us! 😀
A couple days ago we stopped by the Deep Roots Distillery and to sample some of their liquors. While there, we saw their sign advertising a distillery tour and infusion experience where we could create our own infusion ~ so we signed up for today's 3pm tour ~ yay!
The tour started with complimentary cocktails ~ a Chocolate Espresso Martini for Suzanne and a Moonshine Caipirinha for Brad. 😋
The group (21 of us) went out to the apple orchard and our tour guide Melissa explained the history of the founding family (who began the orchard in 1987 and after the husband retiring from teaching, he started the distillery in 2014 - eventually purchased by three of his five children this past year). She also explained that they had an apple orchard at first to sell apples, but then eventually went into the liquor business using the apples to create apple brandy. It was quite interesting and she did a great job of enthusiastically explaining everything.
We made our way into the distillery where Melissa explained the distilling process and how most of their liquors are created, as well as their history and how each liquor is connected to PEI. Again, interesting and she did a great job of answering questions.
Finally it was time for all of us to create our own infusion, and we could select a base of either gin or vodka ~ we both chose vodka as gin already has a bit of flavoring.
A long table was set-up......
.......with some fresh ingredients.......
and some dry ingredients........
.....as well as recipe ideas (ironically it was
Brad who pretty much followed a suggested recipe, which he never does; Suzanne
free-styled it, and she is a "follow the recipe exactly as written" girl.)
Everyone gathered around the long table and started creating! 😀
Our almost finished products....Suzanne's is on the left, Brad's on the right.......
We then made labels..... (Now Brad's is on the left; Suzanne's on the right.)
The bottles were sealed and placed in cute brown bags.....
Our recipes, each for 375ml vodka.....
Brad's:
- 4 - 5g fresh strawberry
- 0.5g dried basil
- 0.5g dried hibiscus flower (he added as an after-thought after being mocked for having only two ingredients 😏)
Suzanne's:
- 2g cassia bark
- 0.5g cloves
- 0.5g nutmeg
- 1g fresh orange peel (she added since the dry ingredients alone looked sad)
- 0.5g butterfly pea powder (after seeing some one else put some in theirs as it makes the color blue and then it will change color if/when we add a mixer 😁)
This is what they looked like when we got home.....
Yum!! 😋
(Well, hopefully yum! 😉 )
So a super fun day and when we are back on PEI, we will definitely do again! Cheers! 🍹
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