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Hey everyone

Anyone else ever make any weird drinks or home brews?

I have a foaf that likes to tinker

Every year he makes this one ..........

"Bout A Spoonful"

Pt. 1

- Aprox 15 fresh "White Persian Poppy" pods with stems & seeds are used.

- Chop with pairing scissors (1cm chunks is perfect)

- Place chopped pods into a large glass jar (lid is needed)

- Cover with 99% ISO & shake viourously for 3 minutes.

- Strain ISO into a large drying bowl and place somewhere warm to evapourate off ISO (Not in direct light) *This can take anywhere from 8 hours to 3 days to completly evapourate the ISO!

* Note : Keep pod scapes from Pt. 1 for use in Pt. 2

Pt. 2

- Aprox 15 "White Persian Poppy" pods are used but these pods & stems have been dried and seeds removed for planting next year.

- Grind these in a coffee grinder & add to a large cooking pot.

- Add 3.5 grams of "Grade A" saffron

- Add 2 x dried Brugmansia White flowers. (If you DO NOT HAVE A GOOD TRUSTED SOURCE FOR THESE & KNOW THE STRENGTH OF THEM IT'S BETTER TO LEAVE THEM OUT ALL TOGETHER! You can add some more Ginger as the reason for this is to stop some of the quessines associated with opiates!)

- Add 5 x fresh Kafa lime leaves (Whole)

- Add 250grms of freshly gratted Ginger

- Add 10 x large Habano Chilles

- Add 4 x whole lemons cut in half.

- Add 100grms of fresh mint.

- Add 1 x teaspoon of salt

- Add 1 x teaspoon of Black pepper (Whole)

- Add 4 Tablespoons of "Red Gum" Honey.

- Add remaining pod scapes from Pt. 1

- Cover with 50% spring water (non sparkling) & 50% Soda water. Simmer until you have reduced total liquid to 25% volume, cool & then strain.

Pt. 3

- Buy a 750ml bottle of Vodka & divide it 50/50.

- Mix 50% of Vodka with the dried resin from Pt. 1

- Mix 50% of Vodka with the liquid from Pt. 2

- Now combine both Vodka mixes into a 1lt glass bottle and you have "Bout A Spoonful"

Please be careful as this stuff is STRONG! As the name sugests start of with just a teaspoons worth as a starting point.


Real strong medicine that will get you a HUGE addiction if not use sparingly!



He also 3 years ago had lots of left over poppies & got creative & made some Ethno Ginger beer! After it had fermented and been botleled for 5 weeks he tried it and just about died. He said it tasted so BITTER and burned his mouth pretty bad ...... lol. He reckons it tasted like stomach bile mixed with chillie oil!

Well he had 31 bottles of this stuff left and just left them in a cool dark spot in his shed, this was about 3 years ago.

Now he tells me that recently things were very dry and he was very broke & remembered these bottles of Ethno Ginger Beer & thought "Why the heck not, I will give these another go". So he get's 4 bottles and puts them in the fridge. Once nicely chilled he pours the 1st one carefully as to not disturb the settled sediment from the bottom of the bottle & fills a large, skinny class & starts to drink it. He reckons there was no more fizz but the taste was great, citrus, apricot, saffron, spicy, ginger flavors with a tingling light heat around the mouth. With in minutes after drinking the glass a big warm glow started all over the body and the mind was wandering but after 20+ minutes he could not resist the urge to go to bed. He reckons he had the most wonderful sleep but woke up with abit of a head ache in the morning and reckons the drink is a winner

So good things come to those who wait!

Here's how he made the "Ethno Ginger Beer"

* 25 White Persian Poppy heads (crushed fine)

* 1 cup White Sugar

* 1/2 cup brown suger

* 4 tbls of Palm sugar

* 4 tbls of RedGum Honey

* 4 chopped Green Mangoes

* 1 knob of Ginger (grated)

* 1 pkt of high quality Saffron

* 2 tbls of Whole Black pepper

* 8 Cloves (crushed)

* 6 Kaffa lime leaves (crushed)

* 6 whole Aust Desert limes

* 4 whole lemons cut into quaters

* 6 chopped chocolate habanero peppers

* 1 dried yellow brugmansia flower

* 42 grams of cannabis head trim

* 1.5 lts of Sparkling mineral water

* 1 375 ml can of Coke a Cola

All this was placed in a large pot on a gas stove top and brought to a gentle simmer. Once simmering the heat was turned down to the lowest flame he could get and left for 6+ hours.

Pot contents were left to cool and the strained thru chesse cloth.

This liquid was then poured into a high 7-8% Ginger beer that was at it's 5th day of brewing.

This was left to brew for another 7 days until brews activity had slowed right down & then bottled.

Then you just have to store it in a cold, dark place for 3+ years .... lol


Anyone else got any good brews that they want to share?