Contents
The liqueur turns out to be quite sweet, but if you prefer alcohol with a lower sugar content, then, accordingly, during the cooking process, its amount must be reduced.
They also make wine, liqueurs, tinctures from chokeberry
Tips before starting
To prepare the liquor, you can use different alcohol: food alcohol, vodka, chacha, plain or fruit moonshine.
Ready-made homemade chokeberry liqueur is best served with ice or as an accompaniment to hot tea.
Each of the five proposed recipes involves pre-treatment of berries, which includes:
Getting rid of black rowan berries from combs and spoiled fruits.
Thorough washing of chokeberry fruits under running water.
Lightly dry with paper towels to help remove excess water.
Pouring from chokeberry with the addition of cherry leaves
Ingredients
Chokeberry – 1 kg
Cherry leaves – 200 g
Food alcohol (95,6%) – 1 l
Sugars – 400 g
Water – 500 ml
Honey – 100 g
Vanilla extract – 1,5 tsp
Carnation – 4 pcs.
Lemon – 2 pcs.
Method of preparation
Pour the prepared chokeberry into a saucepan with a thick bottom and add cherry leaves, water, lemon zest and half the sugar.
Bring the mixture to a boil and then continue to cook on low heat for another 40 minutes.
Then remove the broth from the heat and leave for a day at room temperature.
The next day, it must be filtered and the remaining sugar added and warmed up a little so that it completely dissolves.
After cooling the broth, add lemon juice and honey to it, mix, and then pour it into a glass container.
Then pour in the alcohol component and add spices. We let it brew for 4 months in a dark, cool place.
Then the finished drink is drained from the sediment and filtered.
Before tasting, we bottle the liqueur and keep it for a couple more days in the refrigerator.
Simple chokeberry chokeberry liqueur
The amount of ingredients must be calculated based on the volume of the container.
Ingredients
Blackberry berries
White crystalline sugar
Grape alcohol 60%
Oak bark – 1 pinch
Citric acid – 1 tsp.
Method of preparation
Pour the prepared berry into a 3-liter jar for 3/4 of its volume and add white sugar, about 1/10 of the volume of chokeberry.
We close the container with a lid and insist 4-5 days in a cool place.
Then we throw oak bark, citric acid and pour grape alcohol, chacha or any other fruit moonshine to the top. We let it brew for 30 days in a dark, cool place.
After a month, we drain the tincture, and again fill the berries with the same amount of granulated sugar as for the first time. Then we leave the jar at room temperature for another 4-5 days, and then drain the resulting syrup and mix it with chokeberry tincture.
Now we pass the finished liquor through the filter and bottle it.
Before tasting, we give 1-2 months for aging.
Spicy chokeberry liqueur
Ingredients
Blackberry berries – 1 kg
Food alcohol (95,6%) – 1 l
Vodka – 1 l
Ginger root (dried) – 3 cm
Cardamom – 3 seeds
Vanilla pod – 1 pc.
Method of preparation
Pour the chokeberry into a glass container, add all the ingredients and pour in the prepared alcohol.
We insist the liquor in a dark, cool place for 3 weeks.
Then we filter it through a sieve and filter through a homemade or purchased filter.
We bottle the finished drink and let it rest for 6 months in a dark, cool place.
After that, the liqueur can be served at the table.
Fragrant liqueur of black rowan with honey
Ingredients
Black rowan – 1 kg
Honey – 500 g
Food alcohol (95,6%) – 1 l
Vodka – 1 l
Granulated sugar – 200 g
Method of preparation
Pour the berries into a glass jar and knead with a wooden spoon, then add granulated sugar and leave at room temperature for 1-2 hours.
When juice is formed, pour in honey and prepared alcohol.
Thoroughly mix the contents of the container and transfer it for 1,5 months to a dark, cool room.
After infusion, the drink is carefully drained from the sediment, filtered several times and bottled.
The finished tincture must still be kept for a couple of months in a cool place, and then proceed to the tasting.
Pouring from chokeberry “99 leaves” on moonshine
Ingredients
Black berries – 250 g
Cherry leaves – 33 pcs.
Raspberry leaves – 33 pcs.
Blackcurrant leaves – 33 pcs.
Sugars – 200 g
Moonshine – 500 ml
Citric acid – 1 tsp.
Water – 800 ml
Method of preparation
We shift the previously prepared berries and leaves into a saucepan, add water and bring the mixture to a boil. Then boil on low heat for another 30 minutes.
After that, the broth must be filtered through a sieve into a separate container and add citric acid and granulated sugar to it. Mix thoroughly until the sugar is completely dissolved.
As soon as the syrup has cooled to room temperature, pour in the vodka and infuse the drink in a dark, cool place for 1-2 weeks.
After the specified time, the finished liquor must be filtered and bottled.
Pouring from chokeberry and apples
Ingredients
Black berries – 400 g
Antonov apples – 400 g
Sugars – 400 g
Honey – 1 Art. l
Water – 1 L
Vodka – 700 ml
Method of preparation
Peel the berries from the remnants of the roots and rinse well.
Grate apples on a coarse grater or finely chop.
Bring water with sugar to a boil. Then pour the mountain ash, and after 5 minutes add the apple mass and cook for another 5 minutes.
After that, remove the pan from the heat, let the mixture cool, and then pour it into a jar, add vodka, close the lid and leave in a dark place at room temperature.
Stir the mixture 2-3 times a week. After 3 weeks, strain and squeeze the mixture through cheesecloth in 4-5 layers.
Filter the resulting liquid through a dense cloth, add honey, pour into a jar and leave for another 1 week.
Carefully pour the finished liquor into bottles without touching the sediment and let it brew for another month. The pour is ready.
If a precipitate falls out, pour the liquor carefully into new containers, it is important not to touch the sediment.
Relevance: 21.12.2017
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