How To Make Any Shrub!
Тәжірибелік нұсқаулар және стиль
Shrub, also known as drinking vinegar, is easy and fun and delicious and useful. I will go over various shrub topics and tell you how to make ANY shrub. All you really need is fruit, sugar and vinegar. Shrubs make delicious non-alcoholic sodas, which means they make great highballs. They also can be used to create original cocktails as well as riffs on classics.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:36 Fruit
2:40 Sugar
4:22 Vinegar
6:17 Dunnings!
7:52 What to do with it
11:36 Wrap up
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Great description!! Just started on making shrubs and this has been the most helpful step by step I’ve seen. Thanks!!
@UnclePete
11 күн бұрын
Glad it was helpful, have fun!
Yum! Shrubs are so good!
Thank you! This video helps alot
@UnclePete
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
thanks for this informative video. I'm loving the channel!
@UnclePete
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoy it!
This is a great how to. Thank you!!
@UnclePete
3 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful! I look forward to some shrub on your channel 😉
Uncle Pete, pleasure to meet you. I love this channel. It's exactly the type of stuff I was looking for. Thank you!
@UnclePete
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the POSITIVE FEEDBAAAAACK!
you're amazing! so glad i found this channel. i'll help make dunnings a thing around my parts
@UnclePete
2 жыл бұрын
HA Thanks1 Yes normalize dunnings!!
Love the video, very well put together as well as witty and entertaining. I just wanted you to know that I did hit the subscribe button when you showed the subscribe shrub bottle:) I’m looking forward to poking around your newly found channel some more, keep up the great work. Cheers:)
@UnclePete
2 жыл бұрын
I appreciate that so much! I hope you enjoy them and feel free to ask any questions or whatever!
Nice job Pete!
@UnclePete
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
Excellent video and I loved Spidey at the end. :)
@UnclePete
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
EXCELLENT VIDEO I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ABOUT SHRUBS FOR DAYS AND THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN PERFECT THANK YOU VERY MUCH HAVE A GREAT DAY
@UnclePete
Жыл бұрын
You’re welcome! I’m glad you found it useful!
Best explanation of shrubs and the intended outcome I've come across yet. Thank you!
@UnclePete
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks! I'm glad to be of help!
@WeezyFan43
2 жыл бұрын
@@UnclePete One more question. After 24 hours, when you add the vinegar to your syrup, how soon after are you able to use the shrub? Immediately or does it need to rest another 24hrs?
@UnclePete
2 жыл бұрын
@@WeezyFan43 I usually let it rest until the next day. You CAN drink it right away but it generally tastes better the next day.
Thanks for this video! I usually let my fruits disolve in the vinagre (espacialy berries), they actually tend to disapear pretty quickly. Never tried with big fruits thought. I just picked up some figs, I think I'll give them a try with a mix of balsamic and red wine vinagre :-) Thanks again!
@UnclePete
Жыл бұрын
Yeah the berries tend to dissolve, bigger fruits not so much. Fig sounds great! Espescially with balsomic! Ive never tried fig, but they are in season!
Great resume. I am really getting convinced to buy some fruits and make me a shrub. Oddly enough though, I am really curious right now how a tomato shrub will work out! Cheers.
@UnclePete
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, give it a go! Tomatoes aren't super sweet I don't think, but seems worth a try. might be a more savory experience.
@TheTribalBarGuy
3 жыл бұрын
@@UnclePete yeah I will check the market and see what is available.
@UnclePete
3 жыл бұрын
Do it! Its very low risk and you might end up with something awesome!
@lorilockwood4323
9 ай бұрын
Can you use lemons?
I love the no nonsense gift of information. Where do you get your bottles for storing your shrub?
@UnclePete
4 ай бұрын
Thanks! They are just empty booze bottles.
Love this~ I have a blackberry shrub made from a different "recipe" that I need to thin, likely because I didn't just let the berries macerate with the sugar, I used an immersion blender (my bad) - any insights are appreciated!
@UnclePete
Жыл бұрын
If you blended all the berries together you probably got a lot of berry ‘meat’ in there, this method has been foolproof for me so far! Thanks for watching!
Shrub a dub dub
Uncle Pete. For space reasons could you add some alcohol, say vodka to a finished shrub and keep it in a bottle at room temperature without spoilage? I could see shrubs taking over my refrigerator. Thanks in advance.
@UnclePete
3 жыл бұрын
Actually I am not sure you even need the vodka, if the vinegar level is high enough they shouldn't go bad at all. Though I do keep mine in the fridge. I'd say you can certainly add some some vodka and it won't hurt anything. So give it a try and report back!
Great video!! I was wondering though,how about muddling the fruit once you put the sugar over it for a better extraction?
@UnclePete
3 жыл бұрын
You can, I tend to squeeze the steeping bag I use to strain to get as much juice out as I can.
@gabrielemeloni5281
3 жыл бұрын
@@UnclePete 😉👍👍
Thanks for the vid Uncle Pete! I was wondering, after combining your sugar and fruit, do you let it sit at room temp or refrigerated? The bubbles on your raspberries make me suspect room temp, but I wanted to be sure!
@UnclePete
3 жыл бұрын
I do it at room temp, but it will still work in the fridge if you want to avoid fermentation. I kind of like the fermentation :)
@tastyhaze2058
3 жыл бұрын
@@UnclePete Thanks so much!
@debbi945
Жыл бұрын
Good question. I've watched a lot of shrub demo's and they never mention when to refrigerate it
Hello Uncle Pete! Great Video! I tried to make a papaya shrub recently based off of your recommendations. My ratio was basically 2:1:1, so half as much sugar to fruit and then half vinegar to the syrup (which was alittle to thick to make it through the tea bag but I squeezed out 300 grams of it). In this case I used white wine vinegar. The outcome was pretty vinegary and when I add it to a drinik, like club soda, i can smell vinegar and not papaya. Where did I go wrong?
@UnclePete
Жыл бұрын
If it's too vinegar-y you could try adding more sugar. BUT some fruits don't shrub well. Ive never tried papaya, but if it has a subtle flavor, or not a strong enough flavor it might not cut through the vinegar. For example Ive tried pear and it didn't really work very well, the pear is too weak. If your syrup was super thick, maybe papayas are not too juicy, you could add water to thin it out and dilute the vinegar. Options: make more papaya syrup and add it to what you have. Make another syrup, like pineapple, or something else that will taste good with papaya and add that. good luck!
@Bacciagalupo
Жыл бұрын
@@UnclePete You're right papaya is very subtle indeed. The sugar did bring out more flavor but as soon as I added the vinegar I knew I put too much in. Should have followed your advice by putting alittle in at a time! haha. Thank you for responding! :D
@UnclePete
Жыл бұрын
They don't all come out as well as one might hope, but you can always try again! Good Luck, and Have Fun!
Do you have any best practices when using other sugars (not white table sugar)? Is there any in particular that you like?
@UnclePete
2 жыл бұрын
I usually use white sugar for shrubs, because the less refined sugars don't dissolve as easily, but you can use anything you like.
Makin' a tomato shrub (thyme, rosemary, red chili flake) with an apple cider vinegar. Will report back with how rad it (hopefully) is.
@UnclePete
Жыл бұрын
Yeah! I've never made tomato, I'd love to hear how it is!
Will citrus shrub? There are grapefruits everywhere so I would like to do that but it seems like it would need a different process from something with less juice and thinner skin. Any experience or other thoughts? Thanks for the shrub inspiration!
@UnclePete
Жыл бұрын
With citrus I usually make a cordial in stead : kzread.info/dash/bejne/k42Cz8uBocbZj7A.html a similar process, but tart from citric acid rather than vinegar.
Thanks for the video, would you estimate a shelf life on the Shrubs?
@UnclePete
2 жыл бұрын
I try to drink them before a year has gone by.
No rules… but jalapeño? Would that work paired with like lime or anything? Sounds good as a hypothetical but not sure if it’d chemically work haha
@UnclePete
2 жыл бұрын
Hmm Jalapeno would work well to spice up a shrub, but maybe not as the main fruit. But like a mango jalapeno shrub sounds pretty good!
@HungUpOnADream1122
2 жыл бұрын
@@UnclePete Yesyesyes that’s exactly what I was thinking! Perfect, thank you!
@kingstonlor9969
2 жыл бұрын
I did pineapple n jalapeno