Questions tagged [liquor]
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Why do we use 95% alcohol in Liqueurs?
Not exactly a beer homebrew question but...
I heard from many people that drinking 70-96% alcohol (not rubbing alcohol but distilling grapes).
For example Cyprus traditional drink zivania is made by ...
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Different appearence of liqueur after aging
Last year I have made walnuts liqueur, or nocino in Italian.
From the single batch I have obtained 2 liters of liqueur, which I have bottled in dark beer bottles and left to age in the same, dark ...
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Spirit w/ evaporaed alcohol as a beer flavouring addition
I thought about adding whisky/bourbon/rum/brandy to one of my future porters or stouts. I was thinking about evaporating the alcohol from it first in order to prevent unnecessary ABV increase via ...
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Would coffee wine be at all similar in taste to Kahlua?
I'm interested in brewing kind of a coffee wine. Would it taste at all like Kahlua? I imagine the coffee flavor would be slightly weaker. Recipes for it I've seen have described the taste as "unique" ...
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Using Sugar substitutes (artificial sweeteners) instead of sugar
I am new to home-brewing. I want to brew some liqueurs but since I am a diabetic, I can not use normal sugar in brewing.
My option is using sugar substitutes (like artificial sweeteners) like ...
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Home-made coffee liqueur
Previously, I made cherry liqueur. Beyond that, I do not have much experiance about homebrewing.
Now I want to make coffee liqueur, but I have no idea how to do?
I need help with the ingredients and ...
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For a Swamp Cooler, what alternatives are there to Bleach, Vodka, and Star San?
I use a swamp cooler to keep my fermentation cool: a bucket full of water where my carboy or bucket goes in, and a t-shirt draped over the carboy/bucket with a fan pointed at it.
One room has two ...
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What solution of hard alcohol is sufficient to sanitize and infuse something for addition to a fermenting beer?
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I'm brewing into small, split batches lately to test the effects of various additives. I've got some true cinnamon bark and cacao nibs which I am planning on crushing up, letting steep in ...
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Cherry vishnick
I've been looking for recipes for cherry vishnick and most of them involve just putting the cherries into a jar of vodka for several weeks. I'd been looking for a recipe that involves fermentation. I ...
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Fruit Liqueur- Chop Fruit?
I'm about to macerate some fruit to make sweet liqueur (first attempt), and am using the generic instructions from homedistiller.org:
Fruit Liqueur
Place cleaned fruit in a large jar.
Add ...
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