Homemade Liqueurs

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Homemade Peach Liqueur, Capturing the Essence of Summer

Ingredients for Homemade Peach Liqueur

Fresh picked peaches are one of the finest fruits to be enjoyed. Once you have had filled your craving of fresh peaches, having made peach jam, sorbet, ice cream and even baked a dessert or two, what else can you do with the extra peaches? How does one capture the essence of a perfectly sun …

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Homemade Marmalady Tasting Orange Gin

Marmalady Orange Gin

In December last year, our friend Deborah delivered about 50lbs of oranges from her father’s orange grove in East Texas to us, after we had been talking about making fruit liqueurs. Little did I know how much we were going to get. Unlike other fruit such as apples, peaches or berries, there is only so …

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Homemade Dried Apricot Liqueur, A Sun Kissed Gift from the Gods

Homemade Dried Apricot Liqueur

The third homemade liqueur that I ever attempted was using Dried Apricots. It was at a point where I was more interested making any type of homemade liqueur in the kitchen and there was no local fresh fruit in season. The result was something between a kiss from the sun and a gift from the …

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Homemade Peach Liqueur, 6 Weeks Until Bottling & Tasting

Peach Glut

An expanded post on how to make Homemade Peach Liqueur has now been added to our website With last four pounds of remaining peaches, a double batch of Homemade Peach Liqueur has been brought together (Fresh Sliced peaches, 100 Proof Vodka, Brandy, Sugar and Water) and will now steep for the next three week. Through …

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Rhubarb Rhubarb – Homemade Rhubarb Liqueur

Rhubarb steeping in vodka

As anyone will know who has rhubarb in their garden, you can’t get rid of the stuff. No matter how hard you try to dig up the roots and either throw it away or give it to a friends, it keeps on coming back. Once it has a foothold in your garden then it can …

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