Strawberry liqueur: 4 recipes at home

Ripe, juicy and sweet, that's what you need from strawberries to make an amazing alcoholic liqueur.

What else is made from strawberries? wine, liqueur, tincture, syrup

Classic strawberry liqueur

The proportions are for a 10 liter bottle.

Ingredients

1. Strawberries - 7 kg

2. Sugar - 2.5 kg

3. For the second fermentation: 5 liters of water, 1.3 kg of sugar.

Method of preparation

1. Put fresh, ripe, sorted strawberries in a colander, dip them three times in a bucket of water, let them drain, pour them into a large bottle, add sugar, tie the neck with gauze and put them in a warm place for 2-4 days.

2. As soon as signs of fermentation appear, remove the cheesecloth from the bottle, install a water seal, move the bottle to a shady part of the room and keep it under the water seal for 12-20 days until fermentation stops...

3. After fermentation, filter the liquor through cheesecloth and cotton wool placed in a funnel or colander. Then pour the liquor into bottles and cork.

4. To extract the extractive substances more fully, pour boiled water cooled to +35 degrees into the remaining pulp and leave for 2 days.

5. Then drain the juice and squeeze out the pulp, and pour the resulting juice into a bottle, add sugar, install a water seal and leave for another 15-20 days.

6. At the end of fermentation, filter the resulting fermented juice through cheesecloth and cotton wool and bottle it.

Simple strawberry liqueur

The ingredients

1. Vodka - 1 liter 100 ml

2. Strawberries - 1 kg

3. Sugar - 400-600 g

Method of preparation

1. Fill the bottle with clean, dry berries to the top, pour vodka and leave in a sunny place for 24 hours.

2. Thoroughly drain the tincture, pour into a bottle, cork and keep in a cool place. Pour the remaining berries with a little sugar, cover the bottle with cheesecloth.

3. Soak in the sun until the sugar melts, drain the juice, and cover the berries with sugar again.

4. Repeat the process until the juice is released. Mix all the juices and tincture in one container, strain the resulting liquid, let it brew in tightly sealed bottles in a dark place for 20-30 days before use.

Alternative recipe for strawberry liqueur

Ingredients

1. Alcohol - 500 ml

2. Water - 500 ml

3. Strawberries - 2.5 kg

4. Sugar - 200 g

The method of preparation

1. Pour dry, clean berries into a large container, pour alcohol, cover with cheesecloth, leave in a warm place for 15-25 days.

2. Drain the liquor well, squeeze out the thicker part and mix the squeezed liquid with the liquor.

3. Preparation sugar syrup, strain well and cool. Pour the sugar syrup into the liqueur, shake several times and pour into bottles for storage.

4. Seal tightly, keep in a cool place.

Strawberry cognac liqueur

Ingredients

1. Strawberries - 5 kg

2. Boiled water - 10 liters

3. Sugar - 3 kg

4. Citric acid - 30-40 g

5. Raisins - 200 g

6. Cognac - 1 liter

The method of preparation

1. Put all the ingredients in a large bowl (the total volume of wort according to this recipe will be 17 liters), mix and leave at room temperature for 5-6 days.

2. Fermentation will be rapid, with abundant foam, so the dishes should be filled no more than 2/3 of the volume. It is desirable that the finished drink contains 40-50 g of sugar per 1 liter, so during the fermentation process you need to repeatedly taste the fermenting wort and try to determine its sugar content at least by taste.

3. After 5-6 days, filter the fermented wort and pour into liter bottles.

4. Squeeze, filter and add the remaining berries to the bottles. Cork the bottles and store in a cold room.

Update: 02.08.2018

Category: Liqueurs and Tinctures