Moonshine is not necessarily a cloudy, bad-smelling liquid with a bad taste. This homemade pickle drink can be given nobility with the help of simple folk recipes.
Moonshine is the basis of a vigorous drink with an original taste
From high-quality home-made moonshine, you can get many almost analogues of a variety of noble drinks. An important role in this matter is played by the skill of the moonshiner and skillfully cooked home brew, but the most important thing is the recipe for the preparation of the product.
To obtain wheat moonshine, which tastes indistinguishable from vodka, it is necessary to make a sourdough from the following ingredients: sugar 4 kg, ground wheat grains 1 kg, yeast in a briquette 100 g, water 3 liters. Put the starter culture in a warm place for 5 days, after they have expired, add 5 kg of sugar, 300 g of yeast and 18 liters of water. Put the resulting mixture in a warm place for a week. When the mash becomes bitter and light, it must be filtered and distilled. You can also make a drink from the waste of filtering, just add a bucket of water, 3 kg of sugar, 150 g of yeast and distill it twice.
To create the "Medoc" moonshine, you need to take 3 kg of honey, 300 g of yeast and 27 liters of water. Braga is put in a warm place for a week. After distillation, about 7 liters of moonshine should come out with a rich and soft honey taste.
To create an unusual caramel taste of moonshine, 300 g of yeast and 5 kg of caramel sweets with any filling to taste are dissolved in 20 liters of water. Braga is placed in a warm place for 9-10 days. After distillation, 5 liters of caramel moonshine are obtained.
Moonshine is the basis of a noble drink
Now, after repeated distillation and acquiring the necessary skill, a noble drink can be prepared from pure high-quality moonshine. To create absinthe, you need 300 g of anise and 200 g of wormwood pour 10 liters of moonshine. The mixture is infused for two weeks and distilled again.
To prepare "Kedrovochka", you need to take 2-3 tablespoons of chopped oak bark for 3 liters of moonshine, two handfuls of raisins and pine nuts each. It is infused for two weeks and poured into a clean dish.
To create a three-liter can of brandy, you need to take six fresh lovage leaves, 3 clove buds, 3 tablespoons of St. John's wort flowers, two teaspoons of black tea and instant coffee. Let the mixture sit for a couple of days and pour into a clean container.
You can use another recipe for getting cognac from moonshine. In this case, for three liters of moonshine, take 5 clove buds, half a nutmeg and 3 tablespoons of chopped oak bark and coffee beans. The mixture is infused for a week and filtered. But ideally, the finished drink should be aged in an oak barrel in a cellar for 15 years.
Gin can be made already at the stage of the second run. After the first distillation, for each liter of moonshine, add 200 g of chopped or crushed juniper berries. The resulting mixture is distilled again.
To prepare plum brandy and cherry, you need to take an overripe shriveled plum or overripe cherries and pour moonshine to the top. After six weeks, the drink can be drained, and the berries can be thrown into the sugar syrup. After three weeks, these sugar plums or cherries are mixed again with the moonshine. Then the mixture must be filtered again and poured into a clean container. The drink will be fully ready only after six months.
