making fruit vodka
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maomao
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I have a massive box full of blueberries in the freezer. My mum kept buying them for me and I couldn't eat them quick enough
Do you have a method for this?
I did hear that freezing and then thawing berries like that means that they don't have to be individually pricked?
I don't prick them anyway. In my mind that would just release blueberry juice into the vodka whereas what you want is the vodka to leech all the flavour out of the blueberry. Method is easy. Take some vodka out of the bottle (you may store it in your tummy) but blueberries in. Put bottle in coldest part of your fridge or in the freezer (I have a kickass freezer that will freeze vodka), wait several weeks, it is very obvious when it's ready, it's not a tint, it turns blue.
maomao
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this is the one i started with but didn't really end up following. my jars are 750ml and i used enough cherries to fill it 3/4 full, 80g of sugar and half a bottle of value vodka (i love that it's called "everyday value"
). i used as little water as i could as it dilutes the vodka which could spoil it's preserving powers. when decanted squish all the juice out of the cherries through a sieve. you're supposed to filter it before bottling as remaining solids could potentially make it go off, but a) we didn't have any filters and b) it's hardly gonna be around long enough to go off
Sugar? That's weird.
kittyP
Pluviophile
DO you think it will be OK with defrosted (and therefor slightly squished) blueberries?
maomao
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Probably. I'd go for it. Though if they're still frozen I'd rather put them in the vodka frozen. I'm not an expert but I do make half a dozen bottles a year.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
right. L-R: cherry, blackberry, raspberry, blueberry.
all done with the following method:
Empty vodka out of bottle.
Poke fruit into neck of bottle. (Blueberries got nicked with a knife first, cherries were halved to make them fit.) Fruit pushed in to fill to around the shoulder of the bottle.
Caster sugar poured in. Entirely unmeasured. I reckon an average of 150g per bottle.
Fill with vodka.
Spare vodka poured into a clean wine bottle, to top off the bottles when the fruit is removed.
So, all the recipes I found for everything but cherry seemed to suggest this will be fine. The use of sugar or not seems to depend on whether you want to make a flavoured vodka, or a kind of fruit liqueur. I used around half the sugar recommended in most recipes. All but one of the cherry vodka recipes I saw did suggest cooking the cherries in syrup first, as bob said. None of them recommended slicing the cherries, but i couldn't be arsed to sort out a jar, so i'm taking a risk - such a rebel, me.
all done with the following method:
Empty vodka out of bottle.
Poke fruit into neck of bottle. (Blueberries got nicked with a knife first, cherries were halved to make them fit.) Fruit pushed in to fill to around the shoulder of the bottle.
Caster sugar poured in. Entirely unmeasured. I reckon an average of 150g per bottle.
Fill with vodka.
Spare vodka poured into a clean wine bottle, to top off the bottles when the fruit is removed.
So, all the recipes I found for everything but cherry seemed to suggest this will be fine. The use of sugar or not seems to depend on whether you want to make a flavoured vodka, or a kind of fruit liqueur. I used around half the sugar recommended in most recipes. All but one of the cherry vodka recipes I saw did suggest cooking the cherries in syrup first, as bob said. None of them recommended slicing the cherries, but i couldn't be arsed to sort out a jar, so i'm taking a risk - such a rebel, me.
kittyP
Pluviophile
My sloes went off as they defrosted so no sloe gin for me 
Buuut I have just made blueberry and black pepper vodka.
It's got a tonne of sugar in too so I am hoping I can just let it steep til Christmas (shaking every now and then).
My jars of blackberry brandy and vodka still have the fruit in from September and look fine.
Blueberry and black pepper vodka just done
Buuut I have just made blueberry and black pepper vodka.
It's got a tonne of sugar in too so I am hoping I can just let it steep til Christmas (shaking every now and then).
My jars of blackberry brandy and vodka still have the fruit in from September and look fine.
Blueberry and black pepper vodka just done
Cid
Proper break this time
I rather cunningly left a batch of sloe gin in my mum's flat, think it was last year's - decanted some a couple of weeks ago and definitely the best I've made - last notes of 'tesco value' finally mellowed.
felixthecat
are we there yet?
The sloe gin is magnificent and the blackcurrant vodka is fecking lush.
The cherry vodka however has been a complete disaster - tastes vile and is pretty much undrinkable, and there's not much that I find undrinkable.
.The cherry vodka however has been a complete disaster - tastes vile and is pretty much undrinkable, and there's not much that I find undrinkable
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"Two out of three ain't bad..." *gets coat*The sloe gin is magnificent and the blackcurrant vodka is fecking lush
The cherry vodka however has been a complete disaster - tastes vile and is pretty much undrinkable, and there's not much that I find undrinkable
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