Pourings and liqueurs at home. Cherry plum liqueur

Sweet, thick, viscous, with a bright color and certainly a rich aroma ... All this is about the favorite drink of most women - liquor. Do not mind missing a glass or two of delicious homemade liquor and many men. These drinks are served mainly for the dessert table or for coffee. And, despite all the seeming "innocence", getting drunk on home-made liquor is not at all difficult - especially if you don't know the measure.

Technology for making liquor at home

Liquor is a sweet strong alcoholic drink obtained by infusing various components with strong alcohol. Alcohol or a ready-made alcoholic drink is used as strong alcohol - rum, whiskey, cognac, tequila. The second constituent components are various products of plant origin - roots, flowers, fruits, vegetables, berries, spices, nuts and more. In addition, a variety of spices are used in the manufacture of liquors at home: ginger, galangal root, cloves, cinnamon, juniper berries, pepper, roasted coffee beans, citrus zest, etc.

The technology for making liquor at home is based on blending, that is, mixing in various proportions of the individual components of the drink. After that, the liqueurs are aged to mature for at least 6 months.

Sometimes homemade liqueurs are cloudy. In this case, the drink can be clarified with egg white: beat the protein until light foam, continuing to beat, pour in the liquor, put in a warm place and wait for white flakes to appear. Then filter. For 500 ml of liquor you will need 1 egg white.

In the process of how to prepare liquor at home, try to observe the required exposure time, then it will turn out to be viscous, absolutely not smelling of alcohol.

Recipes for making delicious liqueurs at home

Vanilla liqueur

• Alcohol - 3 L
• Cold settled boiled water - 600ml
• Sugar - 2-2.5 kg
• Vanilla - 4-5 g
• Cinnamon - 4-5 g (piece)
• Clove buds - 3 pcs.

Pour boiled water (600 ml) into alcohol, add spices and mix. Under the lid, insist on the sun for 15 days.

Prepare sugar syrup (from 700 ml of water), cool and mix with strained liquid.

Stir, strain again and pour the home-made liqueur into bottles for storage.

Vanilla coffee liqueur

• Vodka and water - 1 liter each
• Sugar - 800g (4 cups)
• Quality instant coffee - 100 g
• Vanilla - 1 stick

Heat water, add sugar and coffee, stir, boil. Boil until thickened, remove from heat and set aside. Pour into a large glass jar along with vodka, add vanilla. Leave in a cool place for 30 days, shaking the container occasionally. Filter the liquor, bottle it.

cream liqueur

• Alcohol - 100 ml
• Water - 100 ml
• Heavy cream - 250ml
• Sugar - 200g (1 cup)
• Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet

To prepare this homemade liqueur, you need to boil water, add sugar, cook until the sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat, cool until warm, mix with vanilla sugar and cream. Cool to room temperature, mix with alcohol and pour into a bottle. Keep refrigerated.

Creamy egg liqueur

• Heavy cream - 250ml
• Vodka - 250ml
• Sugar - 150 g (0.75 cups)
• Egg yolks - 3 pcs.
• Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet
• Rum essence -1-3 drops
• Instant coffee - 2 tbsp. spoons

Pour sugar into egg yolks, add vanilla sugar, coffee and essence, beat with a mixer. Pour in the cream while stirring, then vodka and stir with a spoon. Pour into bottles for storage, keep in a cool place.

Creamy coffee liqueur

• Whiskey - 400ml
• Cream - 300ml
• Brown sugar - 50 g (2 tablespoons)
• Natural ground coffee - 20 g (1 tablespoon)
• Vanilla sugar - 3 g (0.5 teaspoon)

Mix sugar with vanilla sugar and coffee. Put the cream on low heat, all the time, stirring, bring to a boil (do not boil!) And immediately remove from heat. Pour the sugar-coffee mixture, mix well (preferably until the sugar dissolves), leave under the lid until cool. Filter the liquid, mix with whiskey and pour into a storage bottle.

Creamy coffee liqueur

• Fresh cream - 300ml
• Coffee liqueur - 75ml
• Hot water - 50ml

Pour sugar into hot water and stir well to dissolve. Cool, mix with vanilla essence, cream and liqueur. If necessary, strain, bottle, keep in a cool place for no more than 3-4 days. You can use liquor prepared at home according to this recipe right away.

Creamy honey liqueur

• Fresh cream - 300ml
• Honey liqueur -75ml
• Hot water - 50 ml
• Vanilla essence - 3ml (0.5 tsp)
• Brown sugar - 25 g (1 tablespoon)

Pour sugar into hot water and stir well to dissolve. Cool, mix with vanilla essence, cream and liqueur. If necessary, strain, bottle, keep in a cool place for no more than 3-4 days. Drink immediately.

Creamy egg liqueur

• Vodka - 250ml
• Light rum - 50ml
• Condensed milk with coffee - 300 g
• Egg yolks - 6 pcs.

Mix everything, pour into a bottle. Leave at room temperature for 2 days, then refrigerate. Shake before use.

Egg liqueur "Dubok"

• Vodka - 500ml
• Water - 250ml
• Condensed milk - 300 g
• Egg yolks - 8 pcs.
• Chopped oak bark - 2 tbsp. spoons

Before making this homemade liquor, you need to pour oak bark with water, boil for 45 minutes in a water bath, remove from heat, cool and strain well. Beat the egg yolks, mix with condensed milk until smooth, then pour in the vodka and decoction of the bark. Mix well again and beat with a mixer. Pour into a bottle, let stand for 3-4 days before drinking.

Liquor "Milk" simple

• Vodka -1l
• Creamy vanilla ice cream - 1 kg

Pour the vodka into a large container, put ice cream in portions, mixing well each time. Pour into bottles, drink immediately or refrigerate until consumed.

Liqueur "a la Pina Colada"

• Vodka to taste (or 1:1 diluted alcohol)
• Water - 350ml
• Coconut flakes - 250g
• Condensed milk - 1 can
• Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet
• A pinch of grated nutmeg
• Rum essence - 1-2 drops

To prepare this homemade liqueur, you need to boil water, add coconut flakes, mix and close the lid. Let cool, strain thoroughly. Pour the resulting coconut milk into a saucepan and mix with vodka or diluted alcohol, condensed milk, vanilla sugar, nutmeg and rum essence. Fortress and density of liquor regulate vodka (alcohol). Thick sugar syrup can be added to taste.

Egg and milk liqueur

• Vodka - 250ml
• Milk - 250ml
• Sugar - 200g (1 cup)
• Egg yolks - 6 pcs.

Pour the sugar into the milk and beat until the sugar is completely dissolved. Add egg yolks one at a time and continue beating. Pour in vodka, beat again. Pour ready-made home-made liquor into bottles, store in a cold place. Use after 1-2 days.

Egg-lemon liqueur with milk

• Vodka - 250ml
• or vodka - 125ml, whiskey - 125ml
• Condensed milk - 250ml
• Sugar - 300g (1.5 cups)
• Raw eggs - 5 pcs.
• Egg yolk - 1 pc.
• Lemon extract - 0.5 teaspoon
• A pinch of vanillin

Mix sugar with vanilla, pour into a container. Pour in vodka (vodka with whiskey), eggs, yolk, lemon extract and condensed milk. Beat for no more than 1 minute, pour into bottles or decanter, close and refrigerate for 10-15 days.

How to make liqueurs at home: simple recipes

Egg liqueur with coffee and whiskey

• Vodka - 200ml
• Whiskey - 50 ml
• Concentrated milk - 250ml
• Powdered sugar - 250 g
• Instant coffee - 20-30g
• Raw eggs - 6 pcs.
• Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet

Before making this liqueur at home, the eggs must first be cooled, then the whites must be separated from the yolks. Grind the yolks with powdered sugar and vanilla sugar, mix with milk. Dissolve coffee in vodka, mix with whiskey, add to the yolk mass, mix. Beat the chilled proteins in a thick foam, stir into the liquor. Place the mass in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Can be strained and consumed immediately.

coffee liqueur

• Vodka - 500ml
• Sugar - 200g (1 cup)
• Natural coffee - 40 g

To prepare this simple liqueur at home, you need to pour vodka into a saucepan, put on fire and heat, but do not boil. Add sugar and coffee, stir until dissolved, remove from heat. Cool, filter and bottle for storage.

Cocoa liquor

• Vodka - 1.5 l
• Water - 1l
• Sugar - 1 kg
• Cocoa powder - 150 g
• Vanillin to taste

Prepare sugar syrup, remove from heat and let cool slightly. Mix with cocoa syrup, pouring in portions and stirring thoroughly. Then pour in vodka, pour in vanillin, mix and filter. Pour into prepared dry bottles, cork.

chocolate liqueur

• Water - 180 ml
• Vodka - 750ml
• Sugar - 300g (1.5 cups)
• Cocoa powder - 125 g (8-9 tablespoons)
• Vanillin pod

Prepare sugar syrup: boil water, add sugar and cook over low heat until the sugar is completely dissolved, stirring. Bring to medium density, remove from heat, cool. In a large jar, put a vanillin pod cut along, add cocoa and pour in vodka and 250 ml of sugar syrup. Close the jar, shake, leave at room temperature for 14 days. Shake the jar every 2-3 days. Strain the liquor through cheesecloth, pour into a bottle, cork tightly, let it brew for 30 days before drinking.

Look at the photo - this homemade liqueur has a rich chocolate color:

Milk coffee liqueur

• Vodka - 250ml
• Condensed milk without sugar - 300 g
• Condensed milk with coffee - 300g
• Almond essence - 1-2 drops

Mix everything, pour into a bottle. Leave at room temperature for 2 days, then store in the refrigerator. Shake before use.

Apricot

• Alcohol
• Apricots - 2 kg
• Sugar - 2 kg
• Apricot kernels - 10 pcs.

Wash and dry the apricots, cut into slices, remove the seeds. Select 10 seeds, break and remove the kernels.

Pour apricot slices with sugar, leave for 5 hours, then cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, for 30 minutes. Cool the sweet mass to a warm state, wipe through a colander and strain. Mix apricot syrup with alcohol and apricot kernels. Pour into a large jar or prepared bottles, making sure that each gets an equal amount of apricot kernels. Leave for 90 days. Then tint, if desired, with burnt sugar and filter. Store in a cool place in tightly stoppered bottles.

Liquor "Orange-coffee"

• Vodka - 700 ml of vodka
• Roasted natural coffee beans - 33 pcs.
• Orange - 1 pc.

To prepare this simple liqueur recipe at home, you need to cut 33 shallow holes in an orange with a sharp knife, insert a coffee bean into each. Orange put in a jar, pour vodka and insist 33 days under a tightly closed lid. Strain, squeeze the orange separately, filter the liquid and mix with the main liqueur. Throw away the orange.

How to make delicious liqueurs at home

Orange cinnamon liqueur

• Vodka - 2l
• Sugar -1.5 kg
• Oranges - 10 pcs.
• Cinnamon -1-2 sticks

Wash the oranges, cut into pieces, squeeze the juice from the pulp. Cut orange peels into pieces. Mix orange juice with vodka and sugar. Pour into a large container, put cinnamon and orange peels tied in a gauze bag into the liquid. Leave for 40 days, then remove the bag, strain the liquor through filter paper and pour into bottles for storage.

As you can see in the photo, the liquor at home according to this recipe has a pleasant, orange-brown hue:

Orange liqueur with coriander

• Vodka or cognac - 700ml
• Sugar - 300g (1.5 cups)
• Coriander grains - 12-15 pcs.
• Large oranges - 3 pcs.

Wash the oranges and pour over boiling water, let dry. Remove the zest with a grater, being careful not to touch the white part. It is good to squeeze the juice from the fruits. Mix grated zest with sugar, coriander seeds, put in a glass jar and pour over orange juice and vodka or cognac, mix. Close tightly, leave in a dark place for 28-30 days. Shake the mixture thoroughly every 7 days. Filter the finished liquor through several layers of gauze and pour into a bottle or decanter.

Orange liqueur with spices

• Strong vodka -1l
• Water - 375ml
• Sugar - 800 g (4 cups)
• Fresh (250g) or dried (150g) orange peels
• Carnation buds - 4-5 pcs.
• Cinnamon - 1 stick

Mix orange peels and spices, pour vodka, put in the sun or in a warm place for 12-15 days. Filter. Prepare sugar syrup, cool, mix with liquid and pour the liquor into bottles. Insist 10 days.

Orange à la Cointreau liqueur

• Vodka - 500ml
• Water - 500ml
• Sugar - 250g (1.25 cups)
• Oranges - 2 pcs. large or 4 pcs. small

If you like strong drinks, this recipe for making liquor at home will come in handy. You need to wash, wipe the oranges and cut off the orange peel. Grind crusts, pour vodka, put in a dark place for 15 days. Strain, mix with cold sugar syrup, bottle and close well. To sustain before the use not less than 30 days.

lemon liqueur

• Water - 600ml
• Vodka - 500ml
• Sugar - 300 g (1.5 cups)
• Large lemons - 2 pcs.

Wash and pour boiling water over the lemons, cut off the peels (without the white part). It is good to squeeze the juice from the pulp. Cut the lemon peels, pour vodka and lemon juice. Let it brew for 15 days, strain (or filter). Prepare sugar syrup, cool and strain. Mix sugar syrup and lemon tincture, pour into bottles, cork tightly. Infuse for at least 15 more days.

Cherry triple liqueur

• Alcohol - 750ml
• Water - 250ml
• Sugar - 800g (4 cups)
• Ripe cherries-750g

Put the washed and dried berries in a jar, pour alcohol and close the lid. Leave for 7 days, shake the jar every day. Filter the liquid, cover the remaining berries with sugar, shake and leave covered in a warm place or in the sun for 15-20 days. Stir or shake the jar every 2-3 days. Drain the resulting liquid through a funnel with cotton wool into a container with the first liquid. Heat 125 ml of water and pour over the remaining cherries, shake several times and drain the juice through a funnel with cotton wool into the previously poured mixture of liquids. Do the same with the remaining water. Shake the resulting liquor, leave for 15-20 days and carefully strain through a filter. Pour the finished liquor into bottles for storage.

Strawberry liqueur

• Vodka - 500ml
• Water - 500ml
• Ripe strawberries - 1 kg
• Sugar - 1 kg

Boil syrup from water and sugar, add strawberries and let boil. Pour the mixture into bottles or a jar, put in the sun for 10-12 days. Then the delicious home-made liquor needs to be filtered, pour vodka into the liquid, mix and pour it back into bottles for storage.

Cranberry liqueur

• Vodka - 500ml
• Water -100 ml
• Sugar - 300g (1.5 cups)
• Cranberries - 145 g

Rinse cranberries, let drain, mash. Transfer to a jar, pour vodka or alcohol, leave under the lid in a dark place for 7 days at room temperature. Strain well. Boil sugar syrup, cool slightly. Mix cranberry tincture with sugar syrup, pour it back into the jar and close the lid. Leave for 1 more day. Strain, bottle for storage.

Raspberry liqueur

• Strong vodka - 500ml
• Water - 500ml
• Sugar - 1 kg
• Raspberries - 1 kg

Prepare sugar syrup, pour in clean, sorted raspberries, mix and pour into a large jar. Put in the sun or in a warm place for 10-12 days. Strain the syrup well, mix with vodka, strain or filter again and bottle for storage.

Photos of recipes for liqueurs prepared at home from various ingredients are presented below:

Sea buckthorn liqueur

• Vodka - 700ml
• White wine - 200ml
• Sea buckthorn juice - 200 ml or sea buckthorn berries - 400 g
• Sugar - 200g (1 cup)

This is one of the best recipes for homemade liqueurs, as sea buckthorn is not only delicious, but also extremely healthy. To prepare it, the berries must be sorted out, carefully washed and dried. Put berries in a bottle (or pour juice), pour wine, vodka and cover with sugar. Close tightly, shake several times, insist in a dark room for 90 days. Strain and filter. Pour into bottles prepared for storage.

Blueberry liqueur

• Vodka or alcohol
• fresh blueberries
• Sugar

Rinse ripe, high-quality blueberries, let the water drain well. Place the berries in a large jar or bottle, pour vodka or alcohol just above the level of the berries, leave in a sunny place for 35-45 days. Strain the tincture, squeeze the berries slightly, filter the flowing juice and add to the main tincture. Measure the resulting amount of tincture, prepare sugar syrup at the rate: for 1 liter of tincture - 750 g of sugar and 750 ml of water. Cool the syrup, mix with the tincture and filter the liquor again. Pour into prepared dry bottles, cork well, keep in a dark place.

Blackcurrant liqueur

• Vodka - 1l
• Black currant - 1 kg
• Sugar - 400g (2 cups)
• Carnation buds - 2-4 pcs.

Rinse the berries of good quality, let the water drain, remove the berries from the branches and put in a large bowl. Thoroughly knead, mix with vodka and add cloves. Transfer the mass to a jar, cover with gauze, keep in a sunny place for 45 days. Drain the tincture, squeeze the berries slightly, add the drained juice to the tincture. Pour the tincture back into a jar or bottle, cover with sugar and cork. Shake several times, leave in a dark, warm place until the sugar is completely dissolved. Shake the bottle occasionally. Ready liquor can be filtered 1-2 more times.

How to make the most delicious liqueurs at home

Wine-cherry liqueur

• Dry red wine -1l
• Light rum - 500ml
• Thick cherry syrup - 100ml
• Sugar - 800g (4 cups)
• Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet

Mix wine with rum, add sugar and vanilla sugar, stir until sugar dissolves. Pour cherry syrup, mix, strain. You can drink right away.

Orange wine liqueur

• White dessert wine (or white port) - 500 ml
• Sugar - 100 g (0.5 cup)
• Orange - 2 pcs.

Before making this homemade liqueur, oranges must be washed, peeled and cut into strips. Put in an enameled bowl, cover with sugar, boil the zest with sugar over low heat until the volume is halved. Cool the sweet mass, pour wine, stir and pour into a bottle. Close tightly.

Quick melon liqueur

• Red table wine -1.5l
• Sugar - 200 g (1 cup)
• Melon - 1 pc. weighing about 1-1.2 kg

Peel the melon from the peel and seeds, cut into small cubes. Put in a jar or enameled container, cover with sugar and pour wine. Keep covered in the refrigerator for 3 hours. Strain, drink immediately with ice and champagne.

Banana vanilla liqueur

• Vodka - 750ml
• Water - 185 ml
• Sugar - 300g (1.5 cups)
• Vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon
• Ripe bananas - 2 pcs.

Peel the bananas, mash into a puree and transfer to a large glass jar. Pour in vodka so that the banana puree is covered, close the jar tightly and leave at room temperature for 8 days. Boil sugar syrup until thick, cool. Filter the banana mixture through cheesecloth, pour in 250 ml of syrup, stir and strain again. Pour in vanilla extract, stir, pour into a bottle. Leave for 7-10 days to infuse.

Pomegranate liqueur

• Cognac - 250ml
• Pomegranate syrup - 500ml
• Lemon - 1 pc.

To make this liqueur at home, you need to peel the zest from a lemon in a thin layer, cut into pieces. Mix pomegranate syrup with cognac and lemon zest. Transfer to a bottle, leave, tightly corked, for 10 days. Strain, pour into a bottle for storage, keep in a dark place.

• Grapefruit liqueur (tangerine)
• Vodka - 500ml
• Sugar - 50-100g (0.25-0.5 cups)
• Grapefruit (tangerine) peel

Cut the grapefruit peel into slices, put in a jar and pour vodka to the top. Leave in a dark place for 1 day, strain. Add sugar to taste, stir until completely dissolved. Keep in a cool place.

Pear liqueur

• Vodka - 500 ml of vodka
• Water - 600ml
• Juicy pears - 1.2 kg
• Sugar - 300g (1.5 cups)

Pears wash, peel and grate on a coarse grater. Put the mass into the bottle. Pour in vodka, mix, put in the sun for 30-35 days. Prepare sugar syrup, cool. Carefully drain the juice obtained from the pear mass and add sugar syrup (900 ml) to 1 liter of juice. Stir, let stand for 7 days. Strain the finished liquor and bottle it.

Melon liqueur

• Alcohol
• Ripe sweet melon
• Sugar
• Lemon acid

Wash the melon, remove the skin and seeds and coarsely chop. Squeeze out the juice, sprinkle with a little citric acid, sugar and stir. Pour alcohol 1:1, add more sugar to taste, leave covered for 6 days in a cool place. Filter the finished liquor, pour into prepared bottles and cork. Keep in a cool place.

Jasmine liquor

• Vodka -1l
• Jasmine flowers -1kg
• Sugar - 200g (1 cup)

Put pure jasmine flowers in a large jar, cover with sugar and pour vodka. Close the jar, put in a dark place for 15 days. Strain the finished liquor, filter and pour into prepared bottles, cork well, store in a cool place.

ginger liqueur

• Cognac - 500ml
• Water - 80 ml
• Honey - 200 g (6 tablespoons)
• Fresh ginger - 60 g

Before making this liqueur at home, cleanly washed and dried ginger root must be peeled and cut into thin circles. Transfer to a bottle, pour cognac and leave for 7 days, shaking occasionally. Strain thoroughly. Add honey and water to the ginger, stir, boil well and let cool under the lid. Strain carefully, mix syrup with ginger cognac, cork tightly. Let it brew and brighten.

Mint liqueur on cognac

• Cognac - 500ml
• Water - 250ml
• Sugar - 400 g (2 cups)
• Fresh mint - 5-6 sprigs

Put in a large bottle, washed and dried mint, pour cognac and cork. Keep at room temperature for 7 days. Strain the tincture. Prepare sugar syrup, cool, mix with tincture, bottle for storage. Consume after 30 days.

Peach liqueur

• Vodka - 1l
• Ripe peaches - 1 kg
• Sugar - 350g (1.75 cups)
• Cinnamon chunks and anise to taste

Dry the washed fruits, cut and remove the seeds. Chop the pulp. Add hot water, after 30-40 minutes strain well. Pour sugar and spices into the juice, pour vodka, transfer everything to a large jar and leave under the lid at room temperature for 15 days. Strain, pour into prepared container.

Green walnut liqueur

• Vodka - 500ml
• Water - 350-500ml
• Sugar - 500g (2.5 cups)
• Green walnuts - 10-15 pcs.
• Cinnamon - 1 stick
• Carnation buds - 2-3 pcs.

This homemade liqueur is one of the most delicious and original. To prepare it, you need to wash and dry the nuts, finely chop. Put in a large jar or bottle, add spices and pour vodka. Close the container tightly, keep in the sun for 45-50 days. Then strain, filter well. Prepare sugar syrup, cool, mix with nut tincture. Filter again and bottle. Close tightly.

The quality of a homemade drink will directly depend on the purity and softness of the water. It is recommended to use bottled, for example, from the baby food line - then the base does not have to be further cleaned. However, alcohol must be prepared.

To clean, pour it into a clean glass jar and add pharmacy activated charcoal, powdered (15 tablets per 3 l). Stir the contents of the container and let stand. After a day, pour the alcohol into a clean dish through ironed gauze or white flannel.

Add purified alcohol to the water in small portions. To achieve the desired strength of the drink, use. If you do not have a special measuring device, stick to common proportions: 2 parts alcohol and 3 parts water.

Vodka does not have to be 40% ABV. According to the State Standard of the Russian Federation, alcohol in this drink can be from 40 (in European countries - from 37.5%) to 56%.

To give softness to vodka, it is desirable to add sugar syrup, which must be prepared from equal parts of water and granulated sugar. In 1 liter of home-made vodka, add 1 teaspoon of syrup, hermetically close the container with an alcoholic drink and let it stand for at least a day. Refrigerate vodka before drinking.

Alcohol tincture

It is customary to call homemade alcohol tinctures a strength from 18% to 60%. Fruits, berries, spices, spices and other additives are often infused in a cold way on diluted with water (45-50% home strength).

You will get wonderful fragrant. Grind a glass of pure berries with the same amount of granulated sugar, pour 0.5 liters of homemade vodka and insist from 2 weeks to a month. After aging, it can be diluted at will with clean water to the desired strength:

30 to 60% - bitter or semi-sweet drink;
- from 18 to 25% with a sugar content of up to 30 g per half glass - sweet tincture.

If in 0.5 cups of tincture there are from 30 to 40 g of sugar, then this is already considered a liqueur; even sweeter drinks (about 50 g of sugar per half glass) are called liquor.

It remains to strain the finished drink and place in the cold.

homemade liqueur

Liqueurs are usually based on fresh fruit and berry juices, which are fortified with purified alcohol and sweetened. In addition, you can insist fruits. You can add various aromatic essences to your taste.

A very fragrant liquor obtained from fresh strawberries. Pour 1 kg of berries into 1 liter of vodka and keep in a warm place in a hermetically sealed container for half a month. After that, strain the drink through cheesecloth. Boil syrup from 0.5 l of water and 1 kg of sugar, cool to room temperature. Mix the infusion of strawberries and put in a dark place for a week.

Cumin, mint, rose hips, marjoram, zest and other additives give a characteristic aroma to homemade liquors. Essences for an alcoholic drink can be made in advance by drying the plants. Grind them into powder, fill them with high concentration alcohol (at least 75% -90%) in a ratio of 1:10 and soak for a week. Using various essences, spices, spices, berries and fruits, you can create your own branded recipes.

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Homemade alcohol tinctures are used to treat many diseases, as well as for rubbing. For their preparation, ordinary medical alcohol, which can be bought at a pharmacy, and medicinal plants are used. Tinctures are used as an adjuvant in the treatment of diseases while taking medicines.

Instruction

Pour 40-70% medical alcohol into a wide jar or bottle and add medicinal herbs. For convenience, first pour herbs, and already pour alcohol. If you are using a jar, then put the herbs in cheesecloth and tie it into a knot, then place it in a container.

Tincture is prepared for 7-10 days. Shake the container periodically, if not, then after reaching a certain concentration in the lower layers alcohol medicinal infusion, enrichment alcohol stop the herbs. Store the container with tincture in a dark place at room temperature with a tightly closed lid.

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High-quality vodka is quite expensive in the store, however, you can purify the alcoholic product yourself, the quality of which you doubt. This can be done in various ways, for example, with coal. Moreover, there are several “coal” options for purifying vodka.

You will need

• Vodka, activated black carbon, gauze or paper napkins, optional carbon water filter, raisins, tricolor violet root.

Instruction

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A simple recipe for vodka and orange peel liqueur is suitable for making a delicious drink at any time of the year. If you love oranges, don't throw away the peels - they can be dried and used to make this simple, not incredibly tasty liqueur.

With 5 fresh ripe oranges, you will need to carefully cut the peel. You can grate the zest or use dried crusts.

Put the crusts in a glass jar, pour half of the vodka over them and close the lid. Place the infusion jar in a dark place for 21 days. During this time, the tincture should change color and become a pleasant orange hue. The liquid will need to be poured into the pan - strain the tincture through several layers of gauze. Pour sugar into it and boil the syrup.

The syrup should be cooled to room temperature, pour in the remaining vodka, mix the drink and put in a cool place for another 14 days.

Ready orange liqueur stored in the refrigerator.

How to make a vodka and summer berry liqueur

Homemade liqueurs based on vodka and summer berries will delight you on a cold winter evening. Try to choose the most fragrant and fragrant fruits - raspberries, strawberries or wild strawberries. Delicious liqueur from these berries is prepared very simply. You will need:

• Strawberries (strawberries or raspberries) - 3 kg
• Sugar - 10 glasses
• Vodka - 1 l
• Water - 2 glasses

Sort strawberries, strawberries or raspberries well, wash and fill a glass jar with berries. Pour vodka into the berry, close the jar with a lid and place in a warm place. If you have a place on the windowsill or balcony - put the drink right in the sun.

After 4-5 days, carefully drain the tincture from the sediment, strain through a filter of several layers of gauze so that the pulp does not get in, and pour into a clean jar.

Do not throw away the pulp - add a little sugar, water to it, and boil the fruit syrup.

Pour the syrup into the strained tincture, let the drink rest for a few days.

Strain the drink through a gauze filter, pour into glass bottles and you can taste a great aromatic liquor.

Vodka and egg liqueur recipe

Before making vodka and egg liquor, you will need to prepare two small containers and separate the yolks from the proteins. Put the proteins in the refrigerator, and grind the yolks well with sugar so that it completely dissolves.

• Yolks - 8 pcs
• Vodka - 500 ml
• Sugar - 2 cups
• Vanilla sugar - 2-3 g
• Heavy cream - 1 cup
• Milk - 2 cups

Add cream, milk or vanilla sugar to well-mashed yolks. It is best to mix the ingredients in a blender bowl. When the mixture is homogeneous, pour chilled vodka in a thin stream, mix well again and pour the liquor blank into a glass jar.

Leave the drink to mature in a cool place for 2 months. After this time, the drink is ready to drink.

Preparation of vodka liqueur with red currant

• Red currant juice - 1 l
• Vodka - 750 ml
• Water - 2 glasses
• Sugar - 3-4 cups (to taste)

To prepare a vodka liqueur with red currants, you need to rinse and separate the berries.

Fill the jar with currants, add a few leaves with 4-5 leaves and fill with vodka. Close the jar or bottle tightly, put the drink in a warm sunny place for a month and a half.

Let the drink ripen in the sun for a month and a half - during this time the jar will be almost full of thick juice.

Mix it with sugar syrup, pour into glass bottles, close the lid tightly and put in a cool place for 2-3 days. Ready liquor can be tasted.

Spice vodka liqueur recipe

• Sugar syrup - 2.5 kg
• Vanilla - 45 g
• Cinnamon - 45 g
• Carnation - 3 pcs
• Vodka - 2.5 l
• Water 1, 2 l

Pour vodka and water over vanilla, washed, but not crushed cinnamon and cloves, put in the sun for 2 weeks. Strain the finished tincture, mix with sugar syrup made from 600 ml of water and 2.5 kg of sugar. Put the drink in a cool place to rest for a few days, after which it will be possible to pour the vodka liqueur with spices into small glasses and start tasting.

Cocktails with liqueur made from vodka and fragrant berries can be prepared for the festive table. It is enough to pour a few ice cubes into a beautiful glass, pour a little of any liquor on top and add a little sparkling water or tonic.

Decorate this treat with a piece of fresh or canned berries and your guests will be delighted.

If you like not too strong sweet drinks, you want to surprise and please your guests, you definitely need to make homemade liquor.

The simplest ingredients are suitable for it, and the technology is available even to a beginner.

The undeniable advantage of hand-made liquors is high quality of all its components.

Buying alcohol in a store, you are essentially buying a pig in a poke. Even choosing products of famous brands, you are not protected from fakes.

Reference! By creating a homemade liquor based on moonshine, you take full control of the preparation process. Fortress, composition, unique secrets, taste - you can answer the question on each of these points.

Also, imagine how you surprise your family and friends, putting on the festive table a delicious and high-quality drink of our own production!

Another plus is that when you learn how to cook liqueurs according to traditional recipes, then Feel free to experiment. It is always interesting to create something of your own, unique and inaccessible to everyone else.

To begin with, we need to clarify some key points when choosing a recipe:

1. The best option for making liquors is double-distilled moonshine.
2. The optimal strength is 45%.
3. If moonshine has an extraneous pungent odor, choose a recipe that contains fruits and berries with a bright aroma.
4. Most liqueurs are infused for a long time (about three to four weeks). But there are also quick ways - in a few days you will get a ready-made drink. But keep in mind that slow-maturing liquor has a deeper taste.
5. It is better to use a glass container with a tight lid.
6. Be especially careful when preparing liqueurs from fruits and berries. Each of the drinks needs its own special way of cutting and chopping fruits.

How to make from distillate?

Cranberry

Cranberries make a tasty and not too sweet liqueur rich in vitamin C.

Compound:

• 200 g cranberries
• 1 liter of moonshine
• 150 ml of pure water,
• 100 g sugar.

Cooking:

1. Berries must be thoroughly mashed or ground in a blender.
2. Then add sugar there and put in a cold place for three days.
3. When the cranberry releases juice, fill it with moonshine and purified water.
4. Cranberry liqueur is infused for 30 days in a dark place. At the same time, it must be shaken thoroughly every 3-4 days.

After a month, remove the bottle and filter the drink. It is best to use gauze folded in several layers for this purpose.

Pass the liquor through cheesecloth several times until it becomes clear. Place in the refrigerator for another day.

Cherry

Compound:

• 500 g cherries
• 750 ml moonshine,
• 150 g sugar.

For the preparation of this liquor, both fresh and frozen berries, which are sold in supermarkets, are suitable. The moisture contained in the berries will lower the degree of moonshine.

Cooking:

1. Rinse and sort the berries thoroughly. It is advisable to take out the bones.
2. Put the berries in a bottle and fill with moonshine.
3. Put to infuse in a dark cold place.
4. After two weeks, pour the drink into another container, and sprinkle the berries with sugar. And again, leave both containers for two weeks.
5. Then the ingredients must be combined again and let it brew for fourteen days.

After that, the drink can be filtered, or you can leave the berries in the liquor.

Watch a video in which an experienced moonshiner explains how to properly make cherry liqueur from homemade distillate:

Chocolate

Chocolate liqueur has an original taste and ease of manufacture. He is especially loved by the fair sex.

Compound:

• 500 g chocolate
• 1 liter of moonshine
• 200 ml of water
• 500 g sugar.

Cooking:

1. Chocolate must be chopped on a grater or in a blender.
2. Ideally, it should turn into small chips.
3. The choice of chocolate depends solely on your preferences - you can use only bitter or milk, or you can mix them together and add white.
4. Pour moonshine over chocolate chips and place in a dark, cool place.

After a week, prepare the syrup. To do this, mix water with sugar and boil over low heat. After that, pour the syrup into the bottle with the future liquor and shake thoroughly.

This drink is best stored in the refrigerator.

Banana

This liqueur is good because it can be drunk in its pure form, and used as a base for tropical cocktails.

Required:

• 2 large bananas
• 1 liter of moonshine
• 600 g sugar
• 200 ml of water
• 2 tsp vanilla.

Cooking:

1. You need to start with bananas. Peel them off and chop finely.
2. Put in a container and fill with moonshine. Put the bottle in a dark place for two weeks.
3. Then prepare the syrup - mix water with sugar and boil over low heat.
4. Before you remove the syrup from the stove, add vanilla to it and mix thoroughly. Put it back in a cool place.
5. After a month, filter the drink and let it brew in the refrigerator for 5-7 days.

The video shows the process of making aromatic banana liqueur:

Cointreau

Required:

• 1 liter of moonshine 40-45%,
• 1 lemon
• 3 oranges
• 200 g sugar
• 5 pieces. black pepper (peas),
• 2 bay leaves.

Reference! Cointreau's homemade liqueur is probably one of the simplest. However, it has a rich taste and really looks like the original!

Cooking:

1. Remove the zest from citrus fruits. It is important to cut the zest without touching the white peel.
2. Put the zest in a bottle, add all the other ingredients and fill with moonshine. The tincture should stand in a cool dark place for 30 days.
3. Then filter the liquor and leave it to infuse for another week.

The technology for making homemade "Cointreau" based on moonshine is shown in the video:

Quick raspberry

Required:

• 750 ml moonshine,
• 150 ml of water
• 1.5 kg raspberries,
• 250 g sugar.

This recipe stands out from the rest, because by choosing it, you can enjoy the taste of liquor in a week and a half.

Cooking:

1. Pour raspberries into a container and fill with moonshine. Close the bottle tightly and leave for 4 days.
2. Then prepare the syrup - mix sugar with water and boil for 5 minutes over low heat. After cooling, add the syrup to the bottle of moonshine.
3. Leave one week, shaking the bottle every two to three days. When the specified period has passed, carefully filter the liquor through several layers of gauze.

Experimenting with classic recipes and imagining new flavors, each of you will be able to create exclusive high quality drinks. At the same time, the cost of such drinks will be minimal, because all liquors are created on the basis of moonshine.

Important! While enjoying home-made alcohol, do not forget that moonshine tinctures are quite a strong drink. Use it wisely.

Liqueur is a pleasant tart alcoholic drink, distinguished by its rich aroma and exquisite taste. Traditionally, diluted alcohol or vodka is used as the basis for its preparation. Today we will tell you how to make a real homemade liquor.

How to make cherry liqueur?

Ingredients:

• cherry - 505 g;
• sugar - 415 g;
• lemon - 15 g;
• water - 990 ml;
• vodka - 505 ml;
• vanillin - optional.

Cooking

Before you start making liquor at home, put the berries in a bowl, fill with clean water and put the dishes on medium heat. After boiling, add lemon slices, throw sugar and vanillin. Boil the syrup for 10 minutes, and then carefully remove the dishes from the stove and cool. Next, filter the warm broth and pour the liquid into a jar. Add vodka, close the container with a nylon lid and put it away for 2 weeks in any cool place. Next, we taste the liquor and pour it into dark, clean bottles.

How to make Baileys liqueur at home?

Ingredients:

• vodka - 505 ml;
• - 1 bank;
• cream 10% - 405 ml;
• instant coffee - 10 g;
• vanilla sugar - 20 g;
• egg yolks - 4 pcs.

Cooking

Beat the yolks with a mixer or a whisk in a deep bowl. Then we spread condensed milk to them and throw vanilla sugar. Mix everything until smooth and add instant coffee granules. Next, pour in low-fat cream, stir and add alcohol. Pour the finished drink into a bottle and put it in the refrigerator for 5 hours.

How to make raspberry liqueur at home?

Ingredients:

• ripe raspberries - 995 g;
• sugar - 995 g;
• water - 505 ml;
• alcohol - 990 ml.

Cooking

So, carefully knead the berries and squeeze the pulp through gauze. Wash the squeezed cake with a glass of water, stir and filter through a sieve. We combine the resulting berry liquid with alcohol, pour the drink into a bottle, close the lid and hold for 10 days.

Pour the sugar into the remaining water, mix, boil for 5 minutes, and pour the syrup into the alcohol mixture. Next, we filter the drink and pour it into beautiful glass bottles.

How to make vodka liqueur from raspberry syrup?

Ingredients:

Cooking

Pour vodka into raspberry syrup, throw lemon, cloves and dilute the drink with boiled water. We cover the dishes with liquor with a lid and leave for several hours in the sun. We filter the drink several times, pour it into clean small bottles and store it only in the refrigerator.