Blueberry liqueur: 4 recipes at home
To make blueberry liqueur, you can use fresh, dried and frozen berries. In recipes using an alcoholic base, you can add alcohol, vodka or high-quality moonshine.
Before you start preparing the liqueur, you need to sort through the blueberries and remove spoiled and rotten berries.
Also made from blueberries: wine, liqueurs, tinctures, syrup
Blueberry liqueur "Double alcohol"
Ingredients
Blueberries - 1.5 kg
Blueberry liqueur - 1 л
Food alcohol - 500 ml
Granulated sugar - 750 g
Cinnamon - 1.5 sticks
Cloves - 3 buds
The method of preparation
Wash, dry and put the blueberries in a glass jar.
Add sugar and spices to the berries, shake the container well and cover with cheesecloth.
Leave it for 3-7 days on the windowsill and shake it daily so that the berry does not turn sour.
After the blueberry syrup is formed, pour in the food alcohol and leave for 30 days in a cool, dark place.
After a month, drain the first infusion, and pour the berries with vodka and leave for another 14 days.
Then strain the second infusion and mix it with the first.
Before bottling the finished liquor, it must be filtered.
Before tasting, keep the drink for another 6 months in a cool, dark place.
Blueberry liqueur from dried berries on moonshine
Ingredients
Dried blueberries - 250 g
Moonshine (45%) - 750 г
Granulated sugar - 250 g
Water - 100 g
The method of preparation
Pour the berries into a glass container and fill it with moonshine. Let it stand for 14 days in a cool, dark place.
After 2 weeks, pour the blueberry tincture into another container.
We cook simple sugar syrup and after cooling, pour it to the alcoholized berries. Let it brew for about 7 days.
After the required time has elapsed, strain the blueberry syrup and mix it with the tincture.
Filter and bottle the finished liqueur.
Keep in a cool dark place for at least six months before tasting.
Blueberry liqueur without alcohol component
Please note that this recipe does not use an alcoholic component and the liquor is prepared through natural fermentation. According to this recipe, the berry should not be washed, this is due to the fact that during contact with water, wild yeast is washed away, which is necessary to start the fermentation process.
Ingredients
Blueberries - 1.5 kg
Water - 300 ml
Granulated sugar - 500 ml
The method of preparation
Grind fresh unwashed berries in a way convenient for you (with a blender, pestle, hands or a meat grinder).
Put the prepared blueberries in a glass container, add sugar and water.
After everything is mixed well, cover the neck with cheesecloth and leave it for 3-4 days in a dark place at a temperature of 18-25 degrees. Once a day, stir the contents of the jar with a clean wooden spoon.
As soon as the first signs of fermentation appear, instead of cheesecloth, install a water seal and leave in a dark place for 1-1.5 months.
After fermentation is complete, the drink must be filtered and then passed through a filter.
Pour the finished liquor into glass bottles and leave for 2-3 months in a cool, dark place.
Then you can start tasting.
Spicy blueberry liqueur
Ingredients
Blueberries - 1 kg
Food alcohol - 1 л
Granulated sugar - 750 g
Water - 400 ml
Orange zest - to taste
Cinnamon - 0.5 sticks
Cloves - 2 pcs.
Arrowroot - a small slice
The method of preparation
Wash the blueberries, crush them a little with your hands and leave them for 3 hours at room temperature. Then grind the blueberries through a sieve.
Add all the spicy ingredients to the resulting juice and cook over low heat for 15 minutes. Then cool and strain through a strainer or cheesecloth.
Cooking a classic sugar syrup.
After the syrup has cooled, mix it with strained spicy juice and pour it into a glass container.
Now pour in the alcohol base and leave for 90 days in a warm place.
After the specified time, pass the liquor through a homemade or purchased filter and bottle it.
Before tasting, keep the drink for 3 months in a cool, dark place.
Update: 05.12.2017
Category: Liqueurs and Tinctures