Finnish cloudberry liqueur

Fans of preparing various tinctures and liquors at home will appreciate cloudberry liqueur. In preparation, it is simple, and as for taste, even very subtle connoisseurs will appreciate them.

Secrets of making cloudberry liqueur at home

Cloudberry liqueur helps in the prevention and treatment of a large number of diseases. In addition to a huge amount of vitamins and nutrients, cloudberries contain benzoic acid, which is a natural preservative. This allows homemade liquor to be stored for a long time without changing the taste and without losing its valuable qualities.

One of the secrets of making an alcoholic drink from cloudberries is the right choice of raw materials. Cloudberries should be of a sufficient degree of maturity. If you take a berry that is too green, then it will spoil the taste, and too ripe may include spoiled specimens.

Before starting the preparation of the drink, the berries must be sorted out and all spoiled specimens removed, as well as too green and showing signs of disease.

The second required ingredient is vodka. It must be of high quality. You should not take a cheap drink, as it can spoil the taste and quality of the final liquor.

Cloudberry liqueur: a Finnish recipe with honey

Finns consider cloudberries a delicacy and therefore add them to the most exquisite dishes. Therefore, the Finnish recipe for cloudberries with honey will please the taste of the most fastidious connoisseurs of quality alcohol.

The Finnish recipe ingredients are:

• cloudberries, fresh or frozen – 300 g;
• half a liter of high-quality vodka;
• 400 g of honey;
• 200 ml of drinking water, the best option is purified.

The recipe for making a drink from the proposed ingredients does not look complicated:

1. Wash the berries and grind into a puree.
2. Mix with vodka in a container for infusion.
3. Cover and place in a dark and warm place.
4. Insist 10 days.
5. Mix honey and water in a small container and put on fire.
6. Bring to a boil, remove the foam and keep on low heat.
7. Remove syrup and cool to room temperature.
8. Pour directly into the tincture.
9. Cover the container tightly with a lid and put it for another 15 days, while it is advisable to shake the bottle every day.
10. After 15 days, strain the tincture and bottle it in which it will be stored.

After a while, a slight sediment may form at the bottom – this corresponds to the cooking technology. The resulting drink has a strength of about 25% and has a pleasant aroma of honey and cloudberries.

Classic cloudberry liqueur recipe

The classic recipe does not involve the addition of honey, and uses a little more water. Otherwise, it is similar to the Finnish honey tincture. The components used are the following:

• cloudberries – 600 g;
• liter of vodka;
• half a kilo of granulated sugar;
• half a liter of clean drinking water.

This is quite enough to make a classic cloudberry tincture. The algorithm of actions is as follows:

1. Rinse and sort the berries, separating spoiled and wrinkled specimens.
2. Grind with a blender or in any way possible.
3. Put the puree in a glass bottle and fill with vodka.
4. Infuse for 10 days in a dark but warm place.
5. Prepare sugar syrup.
6. Cool the syrup in a natural way and then pour it into the tincture.
7. Insist for another 14 days, while regularly shaking the contents of the bottle.
8. Strain and pour into glass containers.
9. Place in a cool place.

Such a drink can be stored for about 5 years, if you do not take it out to heat. This homemade cloudberry liqueur will please even the most spoiled guests, especially on a winter evening when it is cold and snowy outside. It does not matter whether they drink it in its pure form or add it to coffee or dessert.

How to make cloudberry liqueur with honey and cognac

In addition to vodka, cognac can also serve as the basis for tincture. It will give the drink from the northern berry a unique woody aroma. Cognac is desirable to take high-quality and seasoned. Then the tincture will acquire both aroma, and taste, and strength.

Ingredients for the recipe:

• half a liter of cognac;
• berry -300 g;
• 400 g of honey;
• 200 ml water.

Algorithm for preparing the tincture:

1. Wash and sort the raw materials, and then grind it into a puree.
2. Put in a glass dish and pour cognac.
3. Put at room temperature in a dark place for 10 days.
4. After 10 days, add honey and water.
5. Leave for 2 more weeks.
6. After 14 days, strain and bottle.
7. Store in a cool place such as a basement or cellar.

The fortress gets up to 33%, but the taste is quite mild to drink with pleasure.

With what to drink cloudberry liqueur

Thanks to its pleasant taste, cloudberry liqueur is excellently used both as a dessert drink and as a digestif.

For those who love compound cocktails, you should pay attention to the mixture of cloudberry liqueur with dark rum and cocoa.

It is recommended to serve cloudberry liqueur chilled, not more than 18 °C. As a snack for liquor, the best option is fruits and various desserts. An unforgettable taste will give a combination of cloudberry liqueur with white ice cream.

Experts recommend drinking this drink slowly, in small sips, in order to feel the whole taste and aroma of Finnish liquor.

In Finland, Lapponia coffee is very famous – this is a classic espresso with the addition of cloudberry liqueur.

Conclusion

Cloudberry liqueur is included in a number of elite drinks, but at the same time it is not difficult to prepare it at home. It is enough to have some cloudberries and high-quality vodka or cognac. As a result, after 25 days, a truly refined drink of golden color with a pleasant taste of an exotic northern berry will flaunt on the table. Vodka can be replaced with cognac, and sugar with honey. This will give the liquor an unforgettable soft taste and pleasant aroma. Such a drink can be stored for more than 5 years, while over time the taste will become even more noble.