Apple tincture at home – recipes for vodka, alcohol and others like it

Autumn continues to endow us with its generosity. They say that this year there are a lot of apples in some places. Harvest. Part, of course, should be used for wine, part for cider, and the rest is good for “liquor products” – tinctures, liqueurs and liqueurs. Get patience, good alcohol and fragrant fruits.

We will now teach you how to prepare apple tinctures at home, according to all the canons, as they say. This process is not complicated, it requires quite a bit of time and effort, but also remarkable aging, because, pardon the pun, the aging of the drink is important.

For apple tincture, it is better to take the most fragrant and hard apples, and late varieties are known to be such. They do not have to be sweet – sour varieties make drinks more interesting, it’s checked. There is an opinion that red apples are more suitable for our hobby than green ones, but this is just an opinion. It all depends on the varieties and maturity of apples. Rely on your sense of smell, it will be right. The main thing is that the apples are whole, not rotten, and preferably without “inhabitants”. Of course, the most delicious ones grow next door 🙂

As an alcohol base, it is better to use apple spirits, that is, apple moonshine / alcohol or homemade calvados (purchased is not advisable). However, not everyone can have a supply of home-made moonshine, and even more so calvados, so ordinary state-owned vodka or regular moonshine of good quality will be a worthy alternative. The right decision is to take good quality food alcohol, if there is a way out. An interesting drink can be obtained from brandy, cognac not from appellation. Not bad for a cheap bourbon.

Homemade apple tincture with vodka

The number of apples is determined by eye. The more apples, the richer the taste will be – logic.

Fruits need to be washed, core with seeds removed and cut into slices. Ideally, a three-liter jar should be 2/3 or 3/4 full. Then fill them with vodka, the apples should float. It is not advisable to seal the jar tightly. It is better to bandage it with paper or a thick cloth so that the drink breathes for two weeks of infusion. It is better to leave this tincture to mature on the windowsill, where the last rays of the sun of the outgoing autumn will come – the tincture will be darker. After two weeks, the apple tincture must be filtered, poured into clean bottles and allowed to rest from 2 weeks to infinity.

Apple tincture on alcohol and moonshine

This tincture is made by maceration – soaking apples in alcohol (not pure). The recipe has been tested: the drink is completely masculine, strict, but tasty. Tasters rated the drink very highly.

Wash the apples, remove all excess and cut into slices. Put in a liter jar and pour alcohol or high-quality double-distilled moonshine with a strength of 60%. You can dilute according to our calculator (it will soon be upgraded for the better). We close the jar with a lid and send it to infuse for one week in a dark, cool place. After a week, we drain the first infusion and fill the apples with alcohol / moonshine with a strength of 45%. We are waiting for another week and merge the second infusion. We mix. We pour into clean bottles and stand for at least two weeks. We try.

To the second tincture, you can immediately add cinnamon and vanillin – ½ sticks and 2-3 g, respectively. You will get a pleasant spicy tincture of high strength, but the degree will not be felt. If you just need to refine moonshine and get a delicious male drink, take 1 kg of chopped apples and pour them immediately with 1 liter of 60%, and then with the same amount of 45% moonshine. Get a great product with a strength of 47-48% of a beautiful light golden color.

apple bourbon

Such an American exotic. What is remarkable about this recipe is that not whole apples are used, but only their peels. It is in the peel that contains most of the essential oils and other flavoring substances. Think of it as zero-waste production – peeled apples can be used for charlotte or other culinary needs. In addition, bourbon will hardly lose strength due to the apple juice contained in the pulp.

Rinse the apples and cut off the skin from them. Put the pulp into action as quickly as possible, and put the peel in a liter jar, pour it with bourbon and add spices. Leave the jar for a week in a dark place at room temperature. After a day or two of infusion, it is advisable to remove the spice, otherwise I will interrupt the taste of the apple. After a week, filter the tincture. Keep the drink in the refrigerator.

Apple tincture “Double”

As the last recipe, I offer an interesting drink, which is more like liquor in composition, but sugar can be reduced or not added at all. But here everything is balanced and the output is something beautiful.

Cut apples into slices and place in a jar. Pour in vodka and cognac, seal the jar tightly. We leave the apples to infuse for a month in a dark, cool place. Then we drain the infusion, squeeze out all the vital juices from apples, filter well. Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan, heat until sugar is completely dissolved. Cool the syrup and add to the tincture. Hold on for another month. If necessary, filter again or drain from the sediment.

Theoretically, apples in any tincture can be replaced with pears, but it is better to take 50/50. Better yet, prepare pear tincture or liqueur separately.

Sugar can be halved (do not forget to halve the water), or you can not add at all – it will still turn out very tasty. You can also make a spicy version of “Double”: initially, you need to add a couple of 7-centimeter cinnamon sticks and 10 cloves to the apples. Remove spices during filtration. However, there may be too much spice, and they will kill the taste of the apple. Perhaps you should reduce the amount or just add them in the last days of infusion.

Here is such an apple vodka, gentlemen. It’s easy to make, easy to drink, and hits hard. Thank you for your personal experience in the form of a comment, for sharing on social networks – doubly. Successful experiments, warm autumn, good mood to you all!