Give the gift of homemade booze: 23 easy recipes for DIY liqueur (2024)

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What is the easiest home made alcohol to make? ›

Hard Apple Cider is definitely the easiest way to go. There is a recipe on HomeBrewTalk that is very popular as it's extremely easy to make. Essentially you get red wine yeast and mix it with 5 Gallons of store bought apple juice and 2 pounds of dextrose. You need a carboy and an airlock, but that's it.

Once you make a big batch of infused alcohol, it's time to bottle it for gifts. One way to get bottles is to save any bottles you use throughout the year and re-use them for gifts. Just be sure to clean them well, even boil them to be sure you get any reside out.

In English, moonshine is also known as mountain dew, choop, hooch (abbreviation of hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit), homebrew, mulekick, shine, sneaky pete, white dog, white lightning, white/corn liquor, white/corn whiskey, pass around, firewater, and bootleg.

Gin & Tonic or Vodka & Soda: For many, this is a good starter drink. Order a well spirit (whiskey, rum, gin, vodka, etc) with club soda or tonic water. The formula is basically liquor and a fizzy drink.

Methanol, also known as Methyl Alcohol, is the simplest alcohol, with the formula CH 3 OH where a Methyl group linked to a hydroxyl group.

Most homemade liqueurs start with vodka. This spirit is an ideal base for liqueurs because it's colorless and flavorless, making it the perfect blank canvas. Start by creating some of the most popular liqueur flavors, like coffee, amaretto, and Irish cream — they all rely on vodka for their kick.

Ethanol and water are the main components of most alcoholic beverages, although in some very sweet liqueurs the sugar content can be higher than the ethanol content. Ethanol (CAS Reg.

Making alcohol is easy. Take a sugary liquid, add sugar-eating yeast, and wait. Sanitation is the most important part of any fermentation process. You want to make sure everything that touches your liquid pre- and post-ferment has been fully sterilized with a no-rinse sanitizer.

Similar to any gift, presentation is important when it comes to gifting alcohol. A brown bag won't make the cut. Instead, buy a festive-looking packaging and throw in a fancy “To/From” gift tag or a holiday card. Pair your gift with something else.

How do you wrap alcohol as a gift? ›

Tape the edge of the wrapping paper to the bottle and carefully roll the bottle until it's fully covered. Secure the other end with a piece of tape (for a clean finish, pleat the end and use double-sided tape). Fold the paper at the bottom towards the center of the bottle and secure with tape.

Bottle your liqueurs in clean, decorative bottles and label with a date. The liqueurs will have the best flavor after a few months of sitting on the shelf (aging). They will begin to lose their bright color and some flavor after one year but they will not “go bad” because the alcohol is the preservative.

Contrary to liquors, liqueurs contain much more sugar and are often used as flavoring agent in a co*cktail. So simply said a liqueur is a liquor with added sugar, flavors, and often (though not always) has a lower proof. Examples of liqueurs are Curaçao Liqueurs, Disaronno, Bailey's, Amaretto, etc.

Moonshine: Homemade alcohol. Hooch: Another term for moonshine. Firewater. Vino: Wine.

Today, I'm going to talk about how to make mead. Not beer, not wine, mead. You know, that stuff Vikings used to drink.

Methanol is the primary alcohol that is the simplest aliphatic alcohol, comprising a methyl and an alcohol group.

Obviously, base spirits have something of an advantage over liqueurs and other modifiers, and barring the co*cktail requisites: lime, lemon and sugar, it will surprise few that presently gin sits atop the list, just ahead of vodka which is still holding its own with new recipes still frequently calling for this most ...