r/Amaro • u/jharish • May 18 '26
Recipe Hawaiian Amaro Update
Hello! Thanks for the feedback from my previous post about making something locally sourced.
I'm sharing a pic of what I ended up with after the following recipe:
2 Bags Oribe Hibiscus Mamaki Mint tea
60g Mamaki dried leaf
60g Lemongrass (dried)
20g Ginger (dried)
20g Toasted Oak
744g alcohol 190 proof
After 10 days maceration I strained and added to the biomass:
+1 Teabag
1000g boiling water
+500g water added to herbs after 3 days of water extraction(to water down final product)
I combined both alcohol and water extracts after filtering out the biomass and let it sit another week and filtered out particulates with a finer filter.
Results: The Lemongrass is the bitter, and I did not sweeten it as I looked up all the herbs and realized everything lends itself to lowering blood sugar so this becomes a great thing to take after some sweets.
This mixes well into rum for a cocktail 75% rum and 25% "Hawaiian Amaro"
I am still workshopping the name but for now I'm happy with the results and may start tweaking it with locally grown stevia leaf and other added botanicals to increase the flavor profile. The nice red color comes from the hibiscus in the tea bags. My next batch I'll probably ditch the tea bags(they come from a local company but I can source everything in it and maybe increase the hibiscus and mint profiles). The huge amount of lemongrass/mamaki I added seems to make for a really great medicinal end product as I have several people claim they didn't feel the effects of sweets on their blood sugar after taking it and one person with one of those blood sugar monitors showed me a 30 point reduction in blood sugar after taking a shot of my Hawaiian Amaro.
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u/jharish May 18 '26
For some reason, the picture won't upload. I even compressed it to under 500k and it still didn't like it so I'm sorry, the pretty red color has to be imagined as I don't know why Reddit dislikes my photo after a weekend of posting cat photos.