This is mauby bark that is brewed with other spices such as cinnamon, clove and nutmeg to make mauby drink. Some people also use as part of their spice mix, orange peel and star anise.
This is the drink after it has been brewed and ripened (set) for 48 hours. Here is it presented chilled with ice. Depending on where you are from in the Caribbean, people have different ways of making mauby.
Friday, 26 January 2007
Mauby Bark & Drink
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This really takes me back. I would love to have some mauby right now.
It's a new month, when next you mekking some mauby?
Next week! Starting the process on Valentine's day so it will be ready for the weekend!
I am at it again, making mauby. I set some yesterday. Stay tuned for how it turned out this time.
It is not quite 24 hours yet but I did the first set of brewing adding some of the reserved bark-spiced water.
At this stage it has a sugar-water sort of smell with the hint of the bark and spices.
I noticed this time that the concentrate had a deeper, richer brown colour than the concentrate I made the first time I tried it last month. Stay tuned!
Update. I've just finished doing another brew and adding the reserved bark-spiced water. Remember it is a process that has to be done twice.
As I opened the container I could smell the ripening mauby. I tasted it also to ensure that it had the right amount of sweetness and that it was not too strong and bitter.
The 48 hours will be completed later this afternoon and then this evening, I am going to strain it off (I usually do a final brew at this stage), fill bottles and place them in the fridge.
I just strained off the mauby, it's now in the fridge. It tastes good. Propably needs a little more sugar but that could be because I put too much ice in the glass I just had. Will wait until it is completely chilled overnight to taste again.
The mauby is fine - sweet enough. I did add too much ice and so it melted and diluted the glass I had last night.
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