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This guy sells braids made out of dried Sweet Grass http://www.ecoseeds.com/sweetgrass.html look toward the bottom of the page. I never tried the braids, just bought my live plants, but if they are not old and stale, they should do OK for the scent. Sweet Grass smells sweet for remarkably long...

What's the point? You can get a gallon of it for under $20.00 in a store. It's a lot of work and you are not likely to do any better than the cheap stuff anyway. Plus, it's illegal to distill at home. I rather buy it and filter it to make it really neutral. BTW, I saw ads on b2b/commercial...

I visited Poland in 2002 and that's when I had my first Tatanka drink. I knew that it was my favorite alcoholic drink from that day. I brought a couple of bottles back to USA and treated my wife and friends to it. Once it was gone I tried to find it locally. I tried the artificially flavored...

I don't know of any. I searched far and wide- both English and Polish web pages. For Poles it's not a big deal, they can just go to the store and get it, so noone bothers to make it at home. Here in USA we can't. As far as I can tell this is the first published recipe that actually works as...

Progress update- a year later.... Hi everybody. In the second year of trying I got the process to the point where my home made Zubrowka is very close to the original in both taste and aroma. The taste part I had accomplished early on. The aroma part was tougher. See, the real Zubrowka hits...

This weekend I attempted making of the concentrate for future quick flavoring of plain vodka. I made some strong clear vodka (100 proof +) out of pure grain alcohol and some filtered water and added about 45-50 dried and cut up blades of Sweet Grass to it. Just like when I made the first batch...

Thanks for looking it up. When I first set out to find a source for the Bison Grass I also stumbled on that article. I almost purchased that particular grass. Then I found a few more scientific references to Zubrowka both in English and Polish webpages (including some university websites)- all...

I made two bottles. The first one sat for about a month, the second for maybe 2 weeks. I got a bit impatient with the slow progress of flavoring and ran the second batch through a kitchen blender. This made the vodka acquire a light greenish colour (the original is somewhat gold/yellow). I ran...

Thanks everybody for the responses. I translated the polish receipe I found on the web int English and saved it as a pdf. Here is the link to it. http://www.thuneau.com/Zubrowka.pdf I followed the first method. Now that I have a lot of grass I will try the second method. In the pdf, under...

Thanks, I have been watering it every day while growing- just like the source suggested. But, the grass gets dried before it is used for vodka making anyway. If you would like to try it, do not, I repeat- do not buy the artificially flavored stuff you find in the liquor stores stateside. You...

Hi everybody, My first post here. I hope this is the appropriate forum for this. Here it goes: There is this particular kind of vodka made in Poland called Zubrowka. It's flavored with so-called Bison Grass. It makes a great summer drink when mixed with apple juice and a lemon wedge...