Fruit and berry moonshine: 13 recipes at home
The self-sufficient and original taste of fruit distillates, the availability of ingredients, perhaps, is enough to try to make your own fruit moonshine.
Apple moonshine
To squeeze the juice, apples are cut or grated, and then the liquid is squeezed out. About 6.5 liters of alcohol is obtained from the specified volume.
Ingredients
Apple juice - 33 liters
Sugar - 2.7 kg
Yeast - 0.2 kg
The method of preparation
Soak sugar in juice, add yeast.
Let the drink soak in warmth for 1 week, send for distillation.
Pear moonshine (wild game is fine)
Take pears that are slightly rotten. If the fruit is too small (1-2 kg), you can boil it in a bucket of water and then follow the recipe. Apple moonshine is made in a similar way. Add a bunch of thyme to the mash before distillation. It will take from 4 to 8 liters of the finished product.
Ingredients
Pears - 5 buckets
Sugar - 2.2 kg
Yeast - 270-320 g
Water - 6-7 liters
The method of preparation
Boil the pear mass slightly, including a little water.
Pour sugar and yeast into the gruel, add water.
Let the mixture brew for at least 8 days, distill.
Grape moonshine
This recipe is good for processing grape pulp (leftovers from wine production or juice extraction). The amount of the final product depends on the type of fruit.
Ingredients
Grape pomace - 11 liters
Yeast - 0.1 kg
Sugar - 4 kg
Water - 28 liters
Method of preparation
Add soaked yeast to the grape mass, sweeten, pour water over the gruel.
Insist the starter for about 1 week, distill twice.
Cherry moonshine
Crushed almonds added to the starter give the drink a pleasant almond flavor. Dried cherry fruits are also suitable as a base: in this case, the mass is poured with hot water and crushed after softening. It will take more time to ferment dried berries. Approximate yield of moonshine - 8 liters.
Ingredients
Cherries - 20 kg
Yeast - 0.2 kg
Sugar - 2 kg
The method of preparation
Pit the fruit, grind the fruit pulp, add sugar and dissolved yeast to the mixture.
Transfer the mixture to a warm place, leave until fermentation is complete, stir regularly for the first two days.
Grind the bones, pour the resulting flour into the brew.
Cranberry moonshine
From the specified amount of raw materials, about 3 liters of finished product are obtained.
Ingredients
Water - 9 liters
Cranberries - 2 kg
Yeast - 0.25 kg
Sugar - 2.3 kg
The method of preparation
Crush the berries, soak the mass in water, sweeten, mix well.
Add diluted yeast to the mixture and let it ferment.
Drain the liquid, distill.
Rowan moonshine
Harvest the fruits slightly frozen. If you prepare pure rowan brew without other ingredients and distill it twice, the moonshine will have a special cognac flavor. The yield of the alcoholic product is about 4 liters.
Ingredients
Rowan berries - 10 kg
Yeast - 0.23 kg
Sugar - 2 kg
The method of preparation
Mash the raw materials, squeeze the juice, soak sugar and yeast in the liquid.
Leave the mixture warm until fermentation is complete, then distill.
Rowan bread moonshine
Ingredients
Red mountain ash - 3 kg
Yeast - 0.12 kg
Bread kvass - 11 liters
Moonshine - 7 liters
The method of preparation
Crush rowan, add yeast, soak the mass in fresh kvass.
Insist the composition at t=16-17 °C until fermentation is complete, stir, distill.
Pour the finished moonshine into the resulting liquid and distill again.
Plum moonshine
If the plums are very ripe, instead of sugar, you can add a little water to the fruit pulp (no need to remove the seeds) and distill the brew twice or three times.
Ingredients
Plum - 13 kg
Sugar - 1.5 kg
The method of preparation
Mash the fruits, add sugar to the mass, let stand for 1.5-2 weeks.
Distill the mixture twice.
Moonshine from dried fruits
The approximate volume of the finished drink will be about 4 liters.
Ingredients
Dry apples / pears - 2 kg
Yeast - 0.35 kg
Sugar - 3 kg
Water - 11 liters
The method of preparation
Pour the fruit mass with water, cook over medium heat for about 1 hour.
Let the broth cool to a warm state, add sugar and soaked yeast.
Leave the mixture in the dark for 6-7 days, distill.
Fruit and wine moonshine
Raw materials are taken slightly rotten, almost any fruit will do. The calculation of the number of ingredients is as follows: for 12 liters of fruit, berry and water mixture, you will need 50 g of yeast and 0.7 liters of wine.
Ingredients
Mixture of berries and fruits - any amount
Wine - proportionally
Yeast - proportionally
Water - according to the amount of fruit
The method of preparation
Pour water over the fruit mass until it is completely covered, pour in the wine and dissolve the yeast.
After fermentation, distill the mixture.
Recipe for juicy moonshine
You will get 2-3 liters of alcohol.
Ingredients
Fruit/berry juice - 9 liters
Yeast - 0.3 kg
Method of preparation
Add the yeast to the juice, let the mixture stand for 1.5-2 weeks in warmth and darkness.
After the end of the fermentation process, distill.
Recipe for syrupy moonshine
Similarly, make moonshine from jam by adding 3 kg of sugar to the starter. The fermentation period may be slightly reduced. You will get 6-9 liters of alcohol.
Ingredients
Water - 30 liters
Fruit and berry syrup - 6 liters
Yeast - 200 g
The method of preparation
Add diluted yeast to the syrup, pour a little warm water over the mass.
Let the mixture stand for about 1 week and distill.
Moonshine "Bulk"
The resulting product is used in the manufacture of berry liqueurs to give them a particularly bright flavor.
Ingredients
Berries - any amount
Moonshine - by volume of raw materials
Boiled water - according to the amount of product
The method of preparation
Throw the berries into a prepared container, filling a third of the volume, pour moonshine until the raw materials are completely covered, distill.
Dilute the alcohol with water (2:1).
Update: 02.12.2018
Category: Vodka an Moonshine