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Blackberries have everything to strengthen the body and cure many diseases. Blackberry liqueurs have everything to soften a girl’s heart and make it more pliable. This article contains the best recipes for blackberry liqueurs for true fans of supple girlish hearts.
Blackberries are a natural multivitamin complex. They contain a sufficient amount of vitamins C, E, P, PP, K, provitamin A, B vitamins. Blackberries are also rich in natural antioxidants, bioflavonoids, which simultaneously relieve inflammation, swelling and strengthen the walls of blood vessels. For the cardiovascular system, this berry is the best helper.
It is believed that blackberry liqueurs have the same healing properties. But they have another significant advantage – they are incredibly beautiful, very fragrant and have a unique berry taste. Such a drink is a real treat for female taste buds and a faithful assistant for a heartthrob. For a lazy but patient heartthrob, because preparing blackberry liqueurs at home is quite simple, but long. Much longer than blackberry liqueurs.
A simple recipe for blackberry liqueur on vodka and alcohol
Berries should not be overripe. Fresh blackberries, picked on a sunny day, are best suited for liqueurs – wild yeast, necessary for fermentation, lives in abundance on such a berry. The best alcoholic base for liquor is cognac or well-purified double moonshine.
- 1 kg ripe blackberries
- 0,75 kg of sugar
- 0,5 l of vodka/moonshine/cognac
- Xnum l alcohol
Rinse the blackberries, drain in a colander and pat dry with paper towels. Transfer them to a jar of a suitable volume and sprinkle with sugar, shake well. Cover the jar with gauze and leave in a warm place for 7-10 days, so that the berries release juice and slightly ferment. A couple of times a day, the berries need to be mixed. Then pour in alcohol, close the jar tightly and leave for 10 days in a dark, cool place, not forgetting to stir the contents every day. Drain the resulting infusion, and pour the berries with vodka for 7 days. Drain the infusion of vodka and mix it with the infusion of alcohol. Pour the finished liqueur into bottles and send for a long exposure, at least six months.
Blackberry liqueur with honey
- 1 kg ripe blackberries
- 0,5 kg of sugar
- 0,1 kg buckwheat honey
- 0,35 l of vodka/moonshine/cognac
- Xnum l alcohol
Rinse the berries, put in a colander, dry and transfer to a large jar, sprinkling with sugar. Wait a couple of days until the sugar is completely dissolved, add honey, vodka and alcohol. Shake the jar well, close tightly and send for a month on a sunny windowsill. After this time, drain the filling through a sieve and filter through several layers of gauze. Wait 1-2 weeks for sediment to settle on the bottom of the jar. Drain the drink from the sediment, filter if desired and bottle. Recommends six months exposure. If a precipitate forms, the liqueur can be decanted.
By the way, blackberry honey is also known to beekeepers. It is clear as water and very tasty. It is used in the treatment of colds and kidney diseases.
Pouring blackberries on alcohol with leaves
This recipe uses young blackberry leaves, which are high in vitamin C, tannins, minerals and antioxidants. In medicine, the leaves are used as a wound healing, anti-inflammatory, astringent. Like blackcurrant leaves, they greatly affect the taste of the drink and, as a rule, for the better.
- 0,5 kg ripe blackberries
- 5 young blackberry leaves
- 2 button Gvozdik
- ½ cinnamon sticks
- 250 g aromatic honey
- 370 ml of alcohol
- 80 ml of water
Rinse the blackberries, put in a colander, dry and pour into a jar of a suitable volume. Add blackberry leaves, spices and pour everything with honey. Wait 3 days for the first signs of fermentation, then add water and alcohol. Insist for exactly a month in a dark, cool place, then drain the liquor through a sieve, filter and into a bottle. During aging, a precipitate will form, from which the drink must be delicately drained.
Blackberry liqueur on cognac (with wine)
- 1 kg ripe blackberries
- 0,5 l red wine
- 0,5 l cognac
- 0,5 kg of sugar
- 0,25-0,5 L of water
Rinse the berries, dry them, put them in a jar and mash them a little so that the juice appears. Add wine and cognac, close the jar tightly and send it to a dark, cool place. Maceration should take about a month. After that, the blackberry infusion must be drained through a sieve, filtered. Boil a simple syrup from sugar and water, wait until it cools down and add to the infusion. The liqueur can be filtered again and bottled. The finished drink is best stored in a cool place, for example, in the basement. Use exclusively for treats of the weaker sex. Before serving, the liqueur should be cooled.
Blackberries also pair well with rum…
Blackberry liqueur with rum on vodka №1
- 1 kg ripe blackberries
- 1 kg of sugar
- 1 l of vodka
- 200 ml light rum
- 2 lemons juice
- 2 tsp vanilla sugar
Rinse blackberries, dry and transfer to a jar. Add sugar and mix, cover the jar with gauze and leave on a sunny windowsill for 48 hours. Shake the jar from time to time. After two days, the sugar should dissolve – the resulting syrup must be drained. Pour the syrup into a small jar, add half the vodka, lemon juice and vanilla sugar. Close the jar and hide it out of sight. Pour the remaining berry with the second half of vodka and wait a week. Drain the infusion through a sieve, filter and combine with alcohol syrup. Add 200 ml of light rum, mix well, bottle and aging for 6 months.
Blackberry liqueur with rum on alcohol№2
- 0,5 l blackberry juice
- 0,1 liters of cherry, raspberry or strawberry juice
- 70 g sugar
- 50 ml rum (or anise drink*)
- 600 ml of alcohol
- 200-400 ml of water
* here we mean any anise alcoholic drink with a strength of about 40%: anise tincture, oriental arak, Turkish raki, Greek ouzo, etc.
From water and sugar, boil a simple sugar syrup, cool and pour into a two-liter jar. Add blackberry juice and other berries. While stirring the contents of the jar, pour in the alcohol. Add light rum or aniseed drink (original recipe uses arak). Close the jar tightly and store in a cool place for as long as possible.
Serve liqueur to the table should be no earlier than 3 months of aging. It is not necessary to filter, you can drink directly with the pulp of the berries.
In ancient Greek mythology, blackberries are the frozen blood of the titans defeated in an unequal battle with the Greek gods.