Moonshade is a very tasty and interesting drink. The only drawback is the high cost of this product, but the taste of the finished drink, believe me, it's worth it. Let's take a look at some simple recipes and learn how to make moonshine from honey.
Recipe for moonshine from honey
Ingredients:
- honey flower - 3 kg;
- water - 5 l;
- yeast - 200 g.
Preparation
Now tell you how to make moonshine from honey. We take honey, pour it into a clean 10 liter pot, fill it with water, put it on a weak fire and wait for the mixture to boil. Periodically remove the rising foam and stir to prevent the honey burnt. Cook for 10 minutes, then carefully remove the container from the plate and leave to cool to a temperature of 30 degrees. After that, put the yeast in a saucepan and mix the contents. Then we pour the mixture into a glass bottle or a small oak barrel and put it in a warm place for several days for fermentation.
After a lapse of time, we give honey a little to stay and after the fermentation process is over, we try fermented must in taste for the presence of sugar. After settling, honey is poured into copper alambic or moonshine. For the distillation of honey, it is best to use an alumbic, because the distillate retains the excellent aroma and taste of honey. It is distilled with the separation of the "heart", just like any other fragrant raw material.
If your distillate was able to be obtained with a full separation of fractions and honey was not originally given by a conventional brag, then distillate with a strength of at least 70%, but not more than 80% is best kept in an oak barrel. When fermenting honey, you can also use any berries to your taste, in order to obtain an unusual and original flavor.
There is another interesting way of making moonshine with honey. It is more simple and consists in the following: put the honey in a saucepan, add warm boiled water, yeast and mix everything thoroughly. Then we do everything exactly the same as in the previous recipe. We dispense the ready drink in bottles, plug it and remove it into the cellar.
Recipe for honey moonshine
Ingredients:
- honey - 3 kg;
- syrup - 3 liters;
- water - 25 l;
- yeasts - 300 g.
Preparation
So, honey is mixed with syrup, add yeast, pour the mixture with water and carefully mix everything until smooth. Then put the container for a week to ferment in a warm place and wait. Once the mixture is ready, distill it and pour the ready-brewed vodka on the bottles.
Moonshine with honey and pepper
Ingredients:
- vodka - 500 ml;
- red hot pepper - 1 pod;
- black peppercorns - 5 pcs .;
- floral honey - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- cloves - 3 pcs.
Preparation
Consider another option, how to make moonshine from honey with pepper. We pour vodka or pure moonshine from a bottle into a liter clean jar. There we put cloves, peppercorns, spicy peppers and honey. After that, we mix everything thoroughly, tightly close the jar with a lid and set it for 5 days in a cool and dark place.
The first 3 days once a day, the contents of the can is well shaken up, and the last two - just stand up for our drink.
Each method of making moonshine from honey is interesting and original in its own way, but the main thing here is not to go too far only with yeast, since otherwise they will drastically reduce the taste of the drink. And if you use a moonshine, be sure to watch the nozzle of your burner. With strong and uneven heating, honey during distillation can burn. It is best, as it was written before, to use copper alambic for such distillates.