Lemon tincture on moonshine

The abundance and variety of alcoholic beverages on sale did not at all cause a decline in interest in making homemade moonshine. Moreover, the popularity of this strong home-made drink has even increased, since among store-bought vodka there are frankly low-quality representatives, the composition of which, moreover, is not known at all. Moonshine with lemon has long been known among the people and enjoys well-deserved love not only because of its excellent taste, but also due to its additional healing properties.

Benefits of brewing moonshine on lemon

Making a good alcoholic drink at home is not an easy task - for this, in addition to high-quality equipment, you must carefully follow the rules at all stages of the technological process. Otherwise, the drink may contain fusel oils and other impurities harmful to health. By the way, it is quite simple to check the quality of the purchased moonshine - just pour a small amount of it into a tablespoon and light it on fire. A good quality beverage should ignite immediately. If it does not burn or an oily residue is visible on the spoon after combustion, then it is not recommended to use such a drink.

In any case, it is better to use double-distilled moonshine with a strength of 40-45 degrees for lemon tincture.

But if it so happened that he still has some fusel smell, then it is lemons that are able not only to interrupt him, but also to absorb harmful impurities, ridding them of the finished drink. Lemon peel and the white peel underneath, which can act as an adsorbent, have similar properties.

In general, the taste of lemon is very harmoniously combined with moonshine, and when additional ingredients are used, an unimaginable palette of tastes is available. And the high concentration of vitamin C makes the lemon tincture on moonshine unique in healing terms.

In addition, the citric acid present in the juice will help to eliminate possible protein compounds from the moonshine that could have got into it due to non-compliance with certain technological process norms.

Another advantage of using lemons to infuse moonshine is the fact that the process can be very quick. The drink can be consumed within a few hours. Although the special taste and rich aroma of a lemon drink is obtained only after 3-4 weeks of infusion.

How to infuse moonshine with lemon

For insisting on moonshine, you can use both individual parts of lemon, zest, juice, pulp, and whole fruits, and also combine them in any ratio.

• The zest, due to the significant content of essential oils, is able to bind and adsorb harmful compounds. As a result of the subsequent filtration of the drink, they will be removed from the moonshine.
• Freshly squeezed lemon juice gives the drink an attractive color, taste and aroma, and can also oxidize (due to the citric acid content) harmful protein compounds.
• The bitterness of the drink can be given by the white peel located directly under the zest, and most importantly by the bones. Therefore, it is better to get rid of these lemon components in the process of making the tincture.

Lemons are one of the main ingredients of this drink. Both its taste and healing properties depend on the choice of suitable fruits.

• It is best to choose ripe lemons, which can be identified by the characteristic shine on the peel. Unripe fruits have a matte skin.
• Lemons should have firm, slightly springy flesh when pressed. If the fruits are soft, then they are most likely overripe, and it is better not to use them for tincture.
• Fruits with thin skin are usually more fragrant, contain more essential oils, trace elements and vitamins. They also contain more acid.
• If antibiotics and / or growth hormones have been used to grow lemons, brown spots are visible on the peel. It is better to refuse such fruits, especially since they taste more bitter than usual.
• Naturally grown ripe lemons have a rich aroma that differs from those that have been processed with chemicals.

When using a prescription syrup to make a tincture, the quality of the water is of paramount importance. Do not use city tap water. Distilled or artesian bottled water should be obtained.

For the preparation and infusion of the drink, only glass, earthenware or ceramic dishes are used. The use of enameled dishes is allowed. Metal cookware can oxidize. And plastic, in combination with moonshine, is able to emit harmful components that will negate all the useful properties of the drink.

Often imported lemons are treated with paraffin substances for better preservation. To get rid of them, the fruits must be washed in warm water before use, cleaning their surface with a brush.

The classic recipe for lemon tincture on moonshine

Despite the presence of a large number of recipes for lemon tincture on moonshine, their basic principles of cooking at home are common. They differ only in the content of sugar and additional ingredients. This recipe will describe the classic technology for making tinctures on moonshine, on the basis of which you can independently conduct various experiments.

You will need:

• 5 ripe lemons with a thin skin;
• 500 ml of purified moonshine, strength 50 °;
• 100 ml of water;
• 150 g sugar.

Manufacturing:

1. Sugar is added to the water, heated to a boil and boiled until the syrup is completely transparent. Cool to a temperature of + 30-35 ° C.
2. The yellow thin layer of the peel is removed from the peel so that the white part is not affected.
3. Juice is carefully squeezed out of the pulp; you can use a juicer for these purposes. Do not allow lemon seeds to get into the juice.
4. Thoroughly mix the sugar syrup with lemon juice and chopped zest.
5. The mixture is poured with moonshine and placed for 5-7 days in a cool place without access to light.
6. The infusion period depends on individual preferences. If everything was done correctly, the taste and aroma of the drink only improves from the time of infusion.

The easiest recipe for lemon tincture on moonshine

There is nothing superfluous in the simplest recipe for making a lemon drink based on moonshine. Only 2 liters of moonshine, strength 50 ° and 2 lemons.

Manufacturing:

1. Lemons are washed in running water, carefully wiping the skin from dirt, and then scalded with boiling water.
2. Place both lemons in their entirety in a glass jar with moonshine, cover with a lid and leave for 2 weeks in a dark place.
3. After the specified time, the lemons are removed, and the tincture is filtered through a cotton filter.
4. The result is a tasty drink with an attractive yellowish color.

Infusion of moonshine with lemon and ginger

The classic combination of lemon and ginger will make the tincture prepared according to this recipe an excellent remedy for coughs, sore throat and other symptoms of the common cold.

You will need:

• 70 g fresh ginger root;
• 300 g lemon;
• 1 liter of moonshine;
• 5 vanilla pods;
• 2 cinnamon sticks;
• 250 g sugar;
• 250 ml of water;
• oak chips on request.

Manufacturing:

1. Peel off the zest from prepared lemons and cut it into small pieces.
2. Ginger is rubbed on a coarse grater.
3. Lemon zest, ginger, vanilla, cinnamon and oak chips are poured with moonshine and insisted in a dark place for a week.
4. Then the tincture is filtered.
5. Syrup is boiled from water and sugar, cooled.
6. The prepared syrup is mixed with the tincture, shaken and kept under the same conditions for another 5 days.
7. The finished drink is bottled and sealed tightly.

Recipe for tincture of moonshine with lemons and mint

According to this recipe, lemon moonshine is infused without sugar, so the drink is strong.

You will need:

• 1 lemon;
• about 100 g of fresh mint;
• 500 ml of moonshine with a strength of 40 °.

Manufacturing:

1. From the lemon, only grated zest (the yellow part of the peel) is used. The rest can be left for other dishes.
2. It is preferable to use mint fresh rather than dry. Its leaves are crushed by hand.
3. Pour a mixture of zest and mint with moonshine and leave for 10 to 14 days in a dark place outside the refrigerator.
4. Then the tincture is filtered and allowed to mature for another 7 days before use.

Distilled lemon peel moonshine

To get a completely transparent moonshine from lemons, after insisting, it is distilled again.

You will need:

1. 1 liter of moonshine;
2. 200 g lemon zest;
3. 650 ml of water.

Manufacturing:

1. Lemon zest is poured with moonshine and infused under normal conditions for 3 to 4 weeks.
2. Then water is added and distilled again to bring the volume of the finished drink to 1 liter and to a standard strength of 45 °.

To prepare such a tincture, you can initially use even unrefined or not too high-quality moonshine. At the last stage, in any case, it will acquire the properties of a quality product.

How to infuse moonshine with lemon and coffee beans

The recipe may be of interest to lovers of exact numbers and everything unusual.

You will need:

• 500 ml of moonshine;
• 3 lemons;
• 33 coffee beans;
• 33 pieces of refined sugar or teaspoons of granulated sugar.

Manufacturing:

1. The lemons are washed, dried, and small cuts are made in each of them.
2. Coffee beans are placed in them.
3. Lemons with seeds are placed in a dry glass jar, sugar is added there and all this is poured with moonshine.
4. Insist exactly 33 days.

The resulting alcoholic drink can be simply drunk, or you can make cocktails from it.

Aromatic tincture of moonshine with lemon and cloves

To get lemon moonshine with a special spicy aroma, add 4-5 clove buds to 1 liter of alcohol. For the rest, they operate according to the classical technology.

Lemon tincture on moonshine with honey

If you insist on lemon moonshine using honey instead of sugar, then it will acquire additional healing properties.

You will need:

• 2 lemons;
• 2 tbsp. l. liquid honey;
• 1 liter of moonshine.

Manufacturing:

1. Lemons are isolated with zest and, separately, juice. All other parts of the pulp are thrown away.
2. In a jar, zest, lemon juice and honey are combined, poured with moonshine.
3. Close the lid tightly and insist in a warm place without light for 2-3 days, carefully shaking the contents 2 times a day.
4. After that, the resulting lemon tincture is filtered, poured into bottles and, hermetically closed, put into storage in a cool place.

The original recipe for lemon tincture on moonshine with anise and mint

The same technology is used to prepare an interesting drink with the addition of aromatic herbs: anise and mint.

Moreover, star anise has an even more pronounced aroma, therefore it is more often used in the manufacture of liqueurs, punches and other drinks.

You will need:

• 1 liter of moonshine;
• 2 lemons;
• 1 tbsp. l. anise (or star anise);
• 100 g fresh mint herb.

The manufacturing technology involves mixing the zest of lemons, mint and anise, adding moonshine to them and infusing for about a week under normal conditions.

How to make lemon tincture on moonshine with galangal and violet root

Kalgan in Russia is often called erect cinquefoil, whose healing properties have long been honored and respected.

This herb will help in the treatment of a wide variety of diseases of the stomach, liver and kidneys. Due to its properties, it is an effective remedy even for dysentery.

Violet root has earned fame, first of all, as a powerful adsorbent and purifier of moonshine from possible harmful impurities. At the same time, one should not think that by it is meant the roots of the home violet growing on the windows in almost every home. For cleaning, rhizomes of iris are used, which are usually sold dried in almost any pharmacy.

You will need:

• 250g fresh lemon zest;
• 200 g of cumin;
• 30 g of anise;
• 60 g of violet root;
• 50 g galangal;
• 50 g fennel;
• 3.5 liters of purified double distillation moonshine;
• 2.5 liters of water.

Manufacturing:

1. All components are mixed, filled with moonshine and insisted for about 2 days.
2. Spring water is added and distilled until the finished drink becomes transparent and not too spicy.
3. Then be sure to filter and add sugar, if desired.
4. Poured into bottles and enjoy the amazing taste of the resulting drink.

How to store lemon tincture

In a cool and dark room, moonshine tincture with lemons can be stored for 6 to 12 months. If you freeze it, then the shelf life is practically unlimited. But most often it is consumed much faster.

Conclusion

Moonshine with lemon is such a versatile drink that it is suitable for both men's and women's companies, for feasts and for use for medicinal purposes.

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