12 pounds (5.4 kilos) of butterscotch candy. Will any flavor come through on distillation or will it be as bland as my jolly rancher moonshine? only time will tell. Buddy of mine is turning 30 and his favorite candy is werthers so I did the only logical thing and decided to try fermenting/distilling a ton as part of his birthday gift
1000 werthers candies were harmed in the making of this post
16 Comments
Skua@kbin.earth · 18 pts · 33d
...huh. I can actually kind of see this working. Also I have a friend who loves werther's amd I think he'll be getting married soon, so if your version turns out to be good I'm definitely making some for his stag do
poleslav@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 33d
I’ll try to let you know! I wanna say Jesse who does Still It on YouTube had good success with something similar so I’m hopeful for sure. Think I’m gonna let it ferment another 2 weeks then distill it and let it sit on small bag of the candies for another 2 if the flavor isn’t where I want it to be. If you don’t see an update and are genuinely curious just tag me if I don’t post an update on it by early August lol
Skua@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 32d
I'll set myself a calendar alert, thank you!
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 33d
Why not take the lemoncello approach and flavor the distillate afterward?
poleslav@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 33d
Oh I’ll probably end up doing that too! It’s mainly for science and fun, I’ve also distilled flamin’ hot Cheetos so I may have a screw or ten loose up in the head, just something about making liquor/beer/wine from non traditional ingredients gets me fired up and in the mood to brew lol.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 33d
I've made cotton candy with them. 60% of the flavor survived the heating.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 33d
How did you measure that?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 9 pts · 33d
👅
sixtoe@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 33d
high pressure tongue assay
rumba@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 33d
Different candies, when crushed and remelted through a cotton candy machine have different levels of flavor in the final product. Specifically they seem to lose much of their aromatic properties. I suspect the original flavoring used on the cooked sugar is incredibly concentrated and a lot gets lost in the original product.
If the candies had the same intensity as they did in their drop form, I'd say they're 100%.
If the candies ended up smelling and tasting like straight sugar, I'd say they were 0%
When I rank 50%, It generally means that it identifiably smells and tastes like the original candy and is at least reasonably enjoyable.
If you gave a bag of Werthers cotton candy to a random person who was familiar with them, they'd know what it was and likely be able to pick it out over other generic butterscotch.
I was decent, I'd have picked it over berry or cherry flavoring, but It didn't knock my socks off, I didn't strongly desire seconds.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d
I read candles at first and not candy and was concerned.
I love werthers though!
BeUnique@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 33d
If you're on to something here, maybe the old timers will offer it next to their candy dishes. The younger generations joke about old people always having butterscotch candies when we know damn well everyone eats a couple of them when they are visiting.
poleslav@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d
So you’re saying next I have to distill strawberry bon bons? I swear, my grandpa had an endless supply of werthers and my grandma always had the bon bons lol
MuteDog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 32d
I'd be interested in those results.
poleslav@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 32d
Shoot me a reminder if you can! I am notoriously forgetful and will try to post an update but knowing me I’ll completely forget lol. Basically, it’s on the list and i plan to bit i have a whole load of bad ideas to get through first
rbos@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 33d
Some should. There will be lactose and caramelized sugars, unfermentable.