The main ingredients in tonic are herbs spices fruits and sugar.
Make your own tonic water kit.
You can easily adjust the spice amount to suit your tastes.
This basic recipe goes well with gin and is a great starting point for playing with your own unique herb and spice combinations.
You can make your own citrus tonic water at home with just water sugar cinchona bark ginger and citrus fruits.
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.
Next day take out of freezer and defrost in double cheese cloth.
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.
Tonic is a non alcoholic beverage.
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.
Lynn and carol.
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.
The plastic bag contained a recipe card and several.
Well you know what tonic water is.
To obtain a super clear tonic try using a agaragar filter.
As we generally consume it it s a soft drink that s sweet and bitter and citrusy.
All particals cling to agar and wont pass but flavor.
Hi i made the tonic during the week yesterday it was ready i prepared a little batch of syrup.
Tonic water is a popular mixer for alcoholic beverages and can be used to make flavored sodas.
It s basically like tea.
It has much more flavor than any tonic water you can buy.
Why make your own.
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.
I guess my inclination is just to buy all the ingredients and use them to make your own blend but it s nice they put together a kit for those who don t want to do that.
My brother in law sent a self contained make your own tonic water kit from the oakland spice shop.
Tonic making kit yields 120 144 oz of concentrated tonic syrup depending on amount of sweetener used.
Don t let the brownish tint scare you homemade tonic is awesome.
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.
Freeze when dropped to room temp.
My tonic obsession started with a gift.
Fresh fruit lemongrass sugar salt water and club soda required not included.
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.
