Anyone making boilo?

My wife wants boilo! I am from German ancestry so what the bleep is boilo? My wife is from Pottsville so that explains a lot. We found some boilo recipes on line and are experimenting. I would not know good boilo from bad boilo, Germans drink beer Does anyone have any boilo recipes to share or are they all closely guarded family secrets?

I'd never heard of it until your post. I looked it up. Geepers, with that much booze in it, how can any recipe be bad?? Yaaahaaa!

http://www.riverreporter.com/issues/06- ... boilo.html

Simple reciepe but I dont think you can buy the 190 proof grain alcohol up here any more. We used to get it in Va and mix it in 55gal rubbermaid garbage cans with koolaid. many frat house parties ......

I always used the second recipe that is on coalregion.com. Kesslers seems to be about the best whiskey to use for this!

We made the first one on coalregion.com with the crock pot. The people at the Pottsville state store sold us Four Queens, 101 proof blended whiskey to use. There was a big display inside the door One thing I notice among all the recipes is the use of a lot of honey, oranges and lemons, the rest is spices and booze. The crock pot boilo tasted good enough to me, the wife thought the whiskey flavor was too strong I may have to try the other recipe later this week.

Here is something we made last night that the person who provided the recipe calls boilo but does not have honey or citrus It tastes great though. We had no grain so we just used silver rum, works for me

APPLE PIE BOILO

• 1 GALLON FRESH APPLE CIDER
• 4 CUPS APPLE JUICE
• 4 CUPS GINGER ALE
• 1 ½ CUPS SUGAR
• 4-8 CINNAMON STICKS
• DASH OF NUTMEG


 BOIL FOR 15 MINUTES. REMOVE FROM HEAT AND ADD A FIFTH OF GRAIN!

Poconoeagle wrote:http://www.riverreporter.com/issues/06-12-28/arts1-boilo.html

Simple reciepe but I dont think you can buy the 190 proof grain alcohol up here any more. We used to get it in Va and mix it in 55gal rubbermaid garbage cans with koolaid. many frat house parties ......

I have a bottle of 190 proof Everclear in the cabinet, it is at least 15 yrs old. I opened it the other day and smelled it...smells like dry gas

markviii wrote:I have a bottle of 190 proof Everclear in the cabinet, it is at least 15 yrs old. I opened it the other day and smelled it...smells like dry gas

It is dry gas

The boilo making went well, I guess, we are drinking it. Made the apple pie boilo mentioned above and both the recipes from coalregion.com. Sweet, spicy, warm booze just what you need in winter I used Four Queens blended whiskey for the alcohol. I was looking on the bottle and it states "twenty percent straight whiskies. Eighty percent grain neutral spirits." Now that’s some real top shelf whiskey, I must say.