The most feminine of male spirits. So they say about gin - alcohol made on the basis of alcohol, water and herbal spices. It was in the 16th century that the Dutch physician Francis Sylvius first made a tincture of juniper berries to heal the kidneys and liver with it. But soon the drink was appreciated by the British, they began to drink it not only for medicinal purposes and named it "Gin". Today gin is one of the indispensable components of alcoholic cocktails, the most popular of which is gin and tonic.
It is necessary
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- 25 g juniper berries
- 3 tsp coriander
- 2 teaspoons of cumin
- 610 ml alcohol (96 percent)
- boiled water
Instructions
Step 1
Make two tinctures at the same time. Dilute 330 ml of alcohol with 70 ml of water. Pour juniper there. In another container, dilute 280 ml of alcohol with 60 ml of water. Pour coriander and caraway seeds there.
Step 2
Keep both tinctures in a warm room. Stir them constantly for 5-6 days.
Step 3
Distill each tincture into separate containers. Before distillation, the infusions must be filtered, the remaining alcohol must be squeezed out of the juniper. After that, each infusion must be diluted 1.5 times with boiled water.
Step 4
Pour out the top 10 ml from each infusion. Then distill 260 ml of distillate from each infusion. Pour both distillates into a separate container. Dilute them with boiled water to a volume of 1 liter.
Step 5
Pour the resulting drink into a resealable container and let it brew for a week. After that, the gin can be drunk.
