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

FAQs

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.

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.

Spirits like whiskey, brandy, and gin differ from other drinks because they're distilled rather than fermented. Distillation is the process of boiling liquids to different temperatures to separate them. The alcohol is separated from water during distillation, and just the hard stuff remains.

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.

As the simplest alcohol, methanol differs from water in the presence of a methyl group. Compared to the water molecule, methanol has only one donor and one or two HB acceptor sites [1].

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.

1. Polmos Spirytus Rektyfikowany Vodka. The world's strongest liquor is a rectified Polish spirit typically used by home distillers to create their own flavored vodkas. You can drink it straight, but since it's practically pure alcohol, it has a powerful kick so it's generally not recommended.

It works like this: Pick a juice with at least 20g of sugar per serving, add a packet of specially designed yeast, plug the bottle with an airlock, and wait 48 hours. Just like the fermentation process used in winemaking, the juice's natural sugar is converted into ethanol, with a byproduct of carbon dioxide.

What do prisoners call homemade alcohol? ›

It goes by many names, including hooch, prison wine, jail alcohol, jail wine, toilet wine, and Pruno. Pruno has also been coined jail or prison alcohol because inmates combine a variety of ingredients to create their own alcoholic drinks.

The Production Process

You can use 7kg of Glucose Powder (Brewing Sugar) instead of sugar. This will produce a cleaner, better way and will give you a purer alcohol once distilled. Add the Tripled Distilled Yeast Sachet and mix well. Now take the Sachet of Carbon and gently massage this to get rid of any solid lumps.

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.

Alcohol is made by putting grains, fruits or vegetables through a process called fermentation. This is a chemical reaction where yeast or bacteria react with the sugars in the other ingredients to produce ethanol (the alcohol in the drink) and carbon dioxide (which can mean the drink has bubbles).

Aged and dark spirits are good bets, since there's often more “there” to taste. But clear liquors can also go down smooth on their own—many beautifully botanical gins, complex light rums, and smoky mezcals make for perfect solo sipping (whereas blanco tequilas and some, but not all, vodkas are best in mixed drinks).

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 ...