There is a set of recipes of alcoholic beverages on the basis of alcohol which can be executed in house conditions. Despite the variety, they have the identical principles of preparation: clarification of alcohol and water, addition of various softening, aromatic and flavor additives. Precisely to adhere to a compounding, it is recommended to have the household alcoholometer in economy.
Vodka from alcohol
The quality of home-made drink will depend directly on purity and softness of water. It is recommended to use bottled, for example, from a line of baby food – then the basis shouldn't be cleaned in addition. However alcohol needs to be prepared.
For cleaning pour it in a clean glass jar and add the pharmaceutical activated carbon crushed into powder (15 tablets on 3 l). Mix contents of capacity and let stand. In a day pour alcohol in clean ware through the ironed-out gauze or a white flannel.
In the small portions add the purified alcohol to water. To achieve the desirable fortress of drink, use the alcoholometer. If you have no special measuring device, adhere to widespread proportions: 2 parts of alcohol and 3 parts of water.
Vodka not necessarily has to have the strength of 40%. According to State standard of the Russian Federation, alcohol in this drink can be from 40 (in the European countries – from 37, 5%) up to 56%.
For giving of softness it is desirable to add a sugar syrup which needs to be prepared from equal parts of water and granulated sugar to vodka. Add 1 teaspoon of syrup to 1 l of self-made vodka, hermetically close ware with alcoholic drink and let's stand not less day. Before the use cool vodka.
Alcoholature
House alcoholatures it is accepted to call alcoholic beverages with a strength from 18% to 60%. Fruit, berries, spices, spices and other additives often insist cold-process on alcohol, divorced water (home-made vodka with a strength of 45-50%). Remarkable fragrant tincture at you will turn out from a cranberry. Grind a glass of clean berries with the same amount of granulated sugar, fill in 0.5 l of home-made vodka and insist from 2 weeks to one month. After aging of tincture it can be diluted at will with a clear water to the necessary fortress: - 30 up to 60% - bitter or semisweet drink; - from 18 to 25% with a sugar content to 30 g on a half-glass – sweet tincture.
If in 0.5 glasses of tincture from 30 to 40 g of sugar, then it is already considered fruit liqueur; even more sweet drinks (about 50 g of sugar on a half-glass) call liqueur.
It was necessary to filter ready drink and to place on cold.
Home-made liqueur
Liqueurs in house conditions usually do on the basis of fresh fruit juices which fasten the purified alcohol and podslashchatsya. Besides, it is possible to draw fruits on vodka. On the taste it is possible to add various aromatics essence. Very fragrant liqueur turns out from a fresh wild strawberry. Fill in with 1 kg of berries 1 l of vodka and take in the warm place in hermetically closed capacity of half-month. After that filter drink through a gauze. Weld syrup from 0.5 l of water and 1 kg of sugar, cool to room temperature. Mix wild strawberry infusion with syrup and put to the dark place for a week. The characteristic aroma to home-made liqueurs is given by caraway seeds, mint, a dogrose, a marjoram, a dried peel and other additives. Essences for alcoholic drink can be made in advance, previously having dried up plants. Crush them into powder, fill in with a high-proof alcohol (not less than 75%-90%) in a proportion 1:10 a.m. and sustain week. Applying various essences, spices, spices, berries and fruits, you will be able to create own signature compoundings.