Blueberry Cordial Liqueur Update post #29

[baymule]

Thanks Vfem! You are way out in front of me on this fruit/vodka/liqueur stuff! I'll have to go find more fruit to pick so I can catch up! The final bottled liqueurs on your blog look so pretty!

 

[baymule]

Skinny Girl has a line of low calorie vodkas.

low calorie vodka---isn't that an oxymoron? I thought alcoholic beverages were supposed to blow your diet. Especially when you soak fruits and berries in it and add sugar by the cupfulls.

 

[baymule]

It has been a month now and I am still shaking the jar!

 

[MontyJ]

Now if you would only stop sipping samples...

 

[Jared77]

She didn't say she started with 8 jars and now only has 3 left

 

[baymule]

Well I lowered a gravy ladle into one of the jars yesterday to sample this stuff. Not being much of a drinker, might as well say practically a non-drinker, a couple spoons of the blueberry liqueur gave me a little zing. Still letting it soak, saving bottles to put it in when bottling day comes. But I just used the 3 bottles I had for vanilla. The liqueur tasted strong to me, but then I don't know much about liqueurs.

 

[StupidBird]

I made the best blackberry liqueur this summer. We had a cool wet spring, lots of huge, juicy fat berries. Filled a mason jar with fruit so dead ripe they squished themselves, topped that with about a cup of white sugar, filled the jar with Golden Grain. Used the higher alcohol content because it was so juicy I felt it needed it to keep the mix active. Shaken daily, left the lid a bit loose between until it stopped fermenting, then set aside in the dark. Already it tastes wonderful.

Usually I use cheap vodka and blueberries with excellent results.

My sister brought a book of home making recipes from Germany. I will get my hands on it and share. She has made hers with cherries and other fruits, and uses brown sugar.

 

[jomoncon]

I have a gallon jar of blackberries and one of strawberries sitting in vodka right now. The strawberry has to sit until 10/04, and then I strain & add in a simple syrup. The blackberries are supposed to be finished by 11/08.

I can't wait to see how they turn out.
Jo-Ann

 

[baymule]

It has been raining for days, cold and nasty weather. It even SNOWED today! It melted when it hit the ground, but it was SNOW!! Soooooo I broke out the blueberry cordial. DH and I are watching TV, kicked back in our recliners and sipping blueberry cordial. Good stuff.

I guess it is time to strain it and bottle it up. Going to pack a Christmas basket of home made goodies for a white elephant present.

 

[so lucky]

I made the best blackberry liqueur this summer. We had a cool wet spring, lots of huge, juicy fat berries. Filled a mason jar with fruit so dead ripe they squished themselves, topped that with about a cup of white sugar, filled the jar with Golden Grain. Used the higher alcohol content because it was so juicy I felt it needed it to keep the mix active. Shaken daily, left the lid a bit loose between until it stopped fermenting, then set aside in the dark. Already it tastes wonderful.

Usually I use cheap vodka and blueberries with excellent results.

My sister brought a book of home making recipes from Germany. I will get my hands on it and share. She has made hers with cherries and other fruits, and uses brown sugar.

I did something like that with peaches, and it exploded. Must have done something wrong.