Rowan chokeberry– a popular berry among Russian summer residents. She is unpretentious in care and climate. The plant has beautiful inflorescences and large clusters of berries. Black rowan is a very tasty berry with many useful properties. That is why chokeberry tincture has earned such popularity. It is quite easy to prepare at home. The alcohol tincture is sweet and tart, but at the same time easy to drink.
To prepare a tincture from chokeberry It doesn’t require a lot of effort or complex technology. Most of the time is spent waiting. Most often it takes from 1 to 2 months. According to traditional recipes, homemade tincture is aged in diluted alcohol, vodka or cognac. This drink is very strong, with an alcohol content of about 40%. You can prepare a tincture from chokeberry berries either immediately after harvesting or from already dried berries. The main thing is that the raw materials do not spoil or rot. Even one berry can affect the taste of the entire drink.
Ingredients
The recipe for making tincture contains the main components, without which no recipe can do, and additional ones. The latter are applied only in individual cases and can be excluded.
Main ingredients:
- Chokeberry. It can be fresh or pre-dried.
- Alcohol – vodka, cognac, moonshine, alcohol.
Additional:
- Sugar
- Carnation
Additional ingredients help change the taste, add sweetness to the drink and new notes of aroma.
Cooking technology
Anyone can make a delicious alcoholic drink for the holiday from garden berries. The production of chokeberry tincture occurs in several stages and has several nuances.
First stage: Before preparing the drink, you need to select and wash the berries. They must be ripe, clean, not rotten. After selection, you need to pour the berries into a jar for further aging.
Second stage: Alcohol is poured a couple of centimeters above the layer of berries. Add a little sugar to taste. After this, the fruits need to be mixed well.
Third stage: The jar is tightly closed and infused for 1.5 - 2 months in a dark room. The ambient temperature should be between 20-25 degrees. Every 5 days the contents are shaken.
Last stage: The finished chokeberry wine must be strained through cheesecloth and bottled for storage.
Infused rowan has no shelf life limit when kept in a dark, not hot place. Its color takes on a rich woody red hue, and the aroma gives off the forest and sweetness of berries. Knowing how to make chokeberry tincture yourself simple recipe, you can experiment with flavors by adding new ingredients.
- Infused chokeberry can be used for re-cooking. Just add vodka or alcohol again. The new tincture will have a milder taste.
- Sugar is not a necessary component of recipes. It is added for lovers of sweet drinks.
- Honey is sometimes added instead of sugar. Then the chokeberry tincture acquires light floral hint and soft sweetness.
Recipes
Black rowan tincture can be made different ways depending on the products used. This varies the alcohol content and the bouquet of the prepared mixture. Before preparing the tincture, you need to decide what strength and sweetness you want to get. To do this, the recipe is left unchanged or additional ingredients are introduced. Homemade alcohol tincture has a simple recipe and composition: berries soaked in alcohol. It is distinguished by high strength and slight bitterness.
Classic recipe for rowan tincture with vodka
Chokeberry tincture with vodka is the fastest and easiest recipe. To create the effect of liqueur, sugar is added to it, and lovers of astringency and bitterness stick to only 2 components.
To prepare chokeberry tincture with vodka, you will need half a kilo of fresh berries or 2 times less dried ones and half a liter of alcohol. The drink can be made with any vodka inexpensive brand. Clean berries are poured into a jar and filled with alcohol. After this, you need to mix everything and close tightly. Vodka must be infused for at least 2 months in a dark room. Every couple of days the container is shaken to mix the contents.
The finished chokeberry tincture is filtered from sediment and berries through a sieve and stored in a cool place.
Recipe for rowan tincture with cognac
For a cognac drink you will need 300 grams of berries per half liter of cognac. The tincture recipe is supplemented with sugar or honey, which adds greater sweetness.
The rowan needs to be mashed with a mortar or fork so that the berry produces juice. Season the resulting mixture with two tablespoons of honey. If you use sugar, you must first heat it in a thick-bottomed saucepan over low heat until brown tint. Berries and honey are poured with cognac and sealed in a container for further storage. The drink is aged for about 30 days in the dark and cool. This period is enough for the cognac to be completely saturated with rowan juice.
After the tincture turns a dark woody color, you need to strain the drink as always and store it in the refrigerator until use.
Spicy tincture of rowan
Adding cloves to the berry infusion will give the drink a fresh, spicy aroma and an islandy taste with notes of the orient. Just one ingredient will change the rowan wine, so it will be difficult to recognize the classic recipe in it.
To do this, a kilogram of chokeberry berries is rolled out with a rolling pin for greater juiciness. After this, 0.5 kilograms of sugar and a pinch of clove buds are added. The resulting puree is mixed well, placed in a container and infused under a cloth for a couple of days.
Only after this, 1 liter of vodka is poured in and the jar is closed. In this form it is aged for about 2 months. The finished infusion must be cleaned by filtration to remove all excess and poured into bottles for storage.
Rowan tincture with lemon
If lemon is added, chokeberry berries are infused in alcohol diluted with water. To do this you need: 3-4 lemons, 300 grams of berries, half a liter of alcohol, a glass of water and 200 grams of sugar.
Clean berries are placed in a container, sugar, juice squeezed from lemons and water are added. All ingredients are mixed and poured with alcohol. The mixture is tightly closed and infused for 4-5 weeks. After this, the tincture is filtered and rests for another couple of weeks. To completely dissolve the sugar, the jar with its contents must be shaken periodically.
The finished chokeberry drink has a pleasant, but, due to the presence of sugar, not strong lemon sourness. It can be stored for quite a long time if it is put in the refrigerator.
Rowan tincture with honey
A pound of berries is washed and placed in a container. The fruits are seasoned with 3-4 tablespoons of honey. It is best to use a non-candied substance. All this is poured with 1 liter of vodka and infused under closed lid about 4 months. The longer the exposure, the richer the bouquet will be.
This drink, despite its composition, is not sweet and very tart. To give deeper woody notes, a little oak bark is added to the rowan. The tincture will have a very dark shade and a strong smell.
Rowan tincture with cherry leaves
The recipe for chokeberry tincture with cherry leaves has the largest number of ingredients. It includes: a kilogram of chokeberry, a liter of alcohol, half a liter of water, half a kilo of sugar, 150 grams of cherry leaves, 3-4 tablespoons of honey, 2 lemons and a pinch of cloves.
Rowan together with cherry leaves are washed and placed in a pan. Season them with 1/2 part sugar, lemon zest and add water. Boil all this and leave until the next day. The infused juice is filtered and mixed with the remaining granulated sugar. The mixture needs to be warmed up a little and cooled, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon.
The sweet mixture of juices is poured into a jar and mixed with alcohol. In this form, the drink is infused under a closed lid for at least 3 months. Before use, the tincture is cleared of sediment and poured into a container for storage.
Benefits and harms
Each product has characteristics such as benefits and harms. Chokeberry tincture contains only natural ingredients, therefore it has a number of useful properties:
- Strengthening the immune system.
- Increased appetite.
- Improving the functioning of the digestive tract.
- Reducing cholesterol.
- Reduces blood pressure.
For medicinal use healing properties 50-100 grams of drink per day is enough. In addition, despite its medicinal properties, rowan tincture has contraindications.
Contraindications
As an alcoholic product, chokeberry tincture is strictly prohibited for use by those who suffer from peptic ulcers and gastritis. Its use will only worsen the course of the disease. It is also contraindicated for pregnant and lactating women due to the same alcohol content. It is not recommended to drink this drink for people with low blood pressure, since rowan already helps to reduce it.
Chokeberry serves as an excellent basis for homemade liqueur. The drink turns out tasty, thick with a beautiful ruby hue and a slight pleasant aroma. We will look at two best recipes liqueurs. The first is classic, the second is with vodka, the addition of which increases the strength.
Only fresh ripe chokeberry fruits are suitable for making liqueurs. It is better to pick them after the first frost, then the resulting drink will not be bitter. Next you need to remove the leaves, twigs and scallops, and carefully sort the berries themselves, removing rotten and very small ones.
Classic liqueur recipe
Ingredients:
- chokeberry berries – 3 kg;
- sugar – 1 kg.
Preparation:
1. Crush unwashed rowan berries with your hands, a wooden masher, or beat with a blender until smooth. The fruits are not washed; wild yeast lives on their surface, promoting fermentation.
2. Place the resulting berry mass in a glass jar, add sugar, then mix well.
3. Cover the jar with gauze and transfer to a dark place with a temperature of 18-25°C. Throughout the entire fermentation period, stir the future liqueur with a wooden stick once a day so that vinegar zones do not form on the surface.
4. After 3-4 days, when obvious signs of fermentation appear (foam, hissing, sour smell), install a water seal or a rubber glove with a hole in your finger on the jar.
The liqueur is fermenting 5. After 30-45 days, the liqueur will ferment (the water seal will stop producing bubbles or the glove will deflate), which means that it’s time to filter the drink through 2-3 layers of gauze and a cotton filter.
6. Pour the liqueur into bottles, cap tightly and leave for 70-90 days in a cool, dark (10-16°C) place before drinking. Shelf life – 1-2 years. Strength – 10-13%.
After filtering Chokeberry liqueur with vodka
A stronger version of the drink, the taste is similar to chokeberry tinctures, but is prepared using liqueur technology with the addition of vodka (moonshine, alcohol) at the last stage.
Ingredients:
- chokeberry – 2 kg;
- sugar – 0.5 kg;
- vodka – 1 liter.
1. Pour unwashed rowan and sugar into a glass jar in several layers. The bottom layer is berries, the last top layer is sugar. Bandage the neck of the jar with gauze.
2. Place the container in a warm (16-22°C) sunny place, for example, on a windowsill. After 5-6 days, when the berries have fermented, place a water seal or a medical glove with a hole in the finger on the jar. It is advisable to shake the jar once a day.
Chokeberry, chokeberry, black rowan are healthy berries that contain a number of substances valuable to humans, in particular vitamins C and P, organic acids, sugars, iodine. It is considered a medicinal berry. Tinctures are most often used to treat and prevent various diseases. We will tell you below what benefits the tincture of this berry brings, what diseases it is used for, and how to prepare it.
What are the benefits of chokeberry tincture?
Tincture of black chokeberry berries is most often used with medicinal purposes, however, it can also be drunk as an alcoholic drink, but in small doses. The product is famous for the following beneficial properties:
- general strengthening;
- immunomodulatory;
- cleansing;
- anti-inflammatory;
- antioxidant.
It is recommended for hypertensive patients with the first and second degrees of the disease to normalize blood pressure; people with problems with the heart and blood vessels, to improve their normal functioning; often suffer from colds to strengthen the immune system. The product is also considered effective in reducing the risk of developing atherosclerosis, cancer, and deterioration of vascular patency.
He is advised by those who need to improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract (in particular to normalize the acidity of gastric juice), lower cholesterol levels in the blood, replenish vitamin deficiencies, remove phlegm from the respiratory organs, speed up the healing process, remove heavy metals from the body, remove swelling and improve work kidney
Did you know? Rowan has been attributed since ancient times magical properties, it was believed that she was able to protect, heal and prophesy. The Celts planted it in the courtyards of their homes to protect themselves from fire and lightning, the English - to protect against witches and evil spirits.
Harm and contraindications of chokeberry tincture
Due to one property of chokeberry - the ability to stop bleeding - with regular use of the product, the problem of blood thickening and, as a result, the development of varicose veins and blood clots may arise.
In case of overdose, the following are possible: intoxication of the body, alcohol intoxication, headaches, tachycardia. The most serious consequences of excessive use of the drug in older people are heart attack and stroke. 
Treatment with tincture is prohibited for people who have a history of:
- hypotension;
- peptic ulcer, gastritis;
- increased acidity of gastric juice;
- cystitis, urolithiasis disease and other diseases of the genitourinary system;
- thrombophlebitis, varicose veins.
Also, the product should not be used by those who have allergic reactions or individual intolerance to the berry or other components of the tincture. And, of course, like all alcohol-containing medications, this drink should not be taken by pregnant women, breastfeeding women, children and those who are going to drive a car, as well as those who have problems with alcohol dependence.
Preparing the berries
For the tincture you will need juicy rowan, picked after the first frost - it is this berry that contains the largest amount of valuable substances and has the best taste.
You can also use dried fruits. In the latter case, the amount of the main ingredient in the recipe should be halved. Dry berries will need to be chopped. The duration of infusion of products from the dried product must be extended to 4–5 months. 
Before you start preparing any of the berry infusions described below, you need to prepare the berries. Preparation includes 4 stages:
- Selection of fruits - spoiled, too small, unripe fruits should be removed.
- Cleaning of remaining leaves and stalks.
- Rinse under running water in a colander or sieve.
- Drying.
Chokeberry tincture: recipes
Below are popular recipes for tinctures, tested by many people, using various ingredients and alcoholic beverages:
- on moonshine;
- on vodka;
- on alcohol.
You can also try preparing the product with honey and without adding alcohol.
Moonshine tincture
Let's start our review with a description classic recipe- on moonshine.
We will need the following ingredients:
- fruit black rowan- 1 kg;
- moonshine (up to 60% strength) - 1 l;
- sugar - to taste, 300–500 g (not a mandatory ingredient).
Step-by-step instruction preparation looks like this:
Vodka tincture
For the classic recipe for vodka tincture, you will need the same ingredients as in the previous recipe, only moonshine is replaced with vodka. You need to prepare:
- black rowan berries - 1 kg;
- vodka - 1 l;
- sugar - optional and to taste.
You can achieve other flavors of the tincture, for example, by adding lemon, cherry leaves, or cloves. 
A product with a sour taste can be prepared with the addition of lemon. You will need berries (1 kg), lemons (3 pieces), vodka (0.7 l), water (200 ml). Mix warm boiled water with sugar, then add juice squeezed from lemons and vodka. Insist in a place where they do not penetrate Sun rays, 3 weeks, after which pass the liquid through cheesecloth and bottle.
The drink gets its original taste by adding cherry leaves to it. 
It is prepared from black rowan berries (0.5 kg), vodka (0.5 l), sugar (0.5 kg), lemon (1 piece), water (0.5 l), cherry tree leaves (100–200 things). The fruits and leaves will need to be simmered over low heat for 15 minutes. After cooling, filter the liquid, bring to a boil again and add sugar, lemon juice, and vodka. 
Insist for 1 month in a place without light with a cool temperature. 
Spicy tincture with cloves is prepared from berries (1.5 kg), vodka (0.9 l), sugar (0.5 kg), spices (4 cloves). The berries need to be mashed and mixed with sugar and spices. Cover with gauze and leave for 2 days in a dark place with room temperature. Then add the rest of the ingredients. Leave in a dark room for 2 months.
Tincture with honey
Another option for preparing a product with vodka is to introduce it into its composition.
The following ingredients will be required:
- fruits - 0.5 kg;
- vodka - 0.5 l;
- honey - 2 tbsp. spoons.
- Mix the fruits with vodka in a glass container and add honey.
- Close the container tightly with a lid.
- Send to a warm, dark room for 3 months.
- Shake the container every 7 days.
- After 3 months, pass the drink through cheesecloth and bottle it.
- Keep in the refrigerator for 2 months.
Did you know? Rowan wood is a good material for various wood products. Previously, it was readily used by carriage makers to make parts for carriages, gunsmiths- for handles, carvers and turners- for household utensils. Today it is used for making musical instruments, furniture, ornamental materials.
Alcohol tincture
Ingredients:
- berries - 1 kg
- alcohol (96%) - 0.6 l;
- water - 0.4 l;
- sugar - optional and to taste.
Cooking sequence:
- Crush the prepared berries.
- Pour in alcohol mixed with purified water.
- Add sugar.
- Leave for 2-3 weeks.
Tincture without alcohol and vodka
You can prepare a dessert drink without adding alcohol and vodka. It will be no less useful than those described above.
We will need:
- chokeberry fruits - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 3 kg;
- vanilla sticks - 1 piece (optional);
- orange zest - optional.
Cooking technology:
- Grind the fruits with sugar.
- Add vanilla and zest.
- Cover the container with gauze.
- Place in glass container. Leave in a dark place for 2.5 months.
- Stir every 3-4 days.
- After the fermentation process is complete, filter.
- Pour into a bottle, close the lid, and place in a cool, dark room to infuse for 3 months.
Product storage rules
Chokeberry tincture should be stored in the refrigerator or other cool place where there is no light. The shelf life of alcohol-based products is 3 years.
Important! The container with the tincture must be protected from sunlight..
Features of use
There are certain recommendations for taking the tincture depending on the health problem you want to solve using this method. 
So, for normalization blood pressure The product is taken in courses of 1 month. Take 3 small spoons per day. 30–50 g should be drunk to calm down nervous system and improving sleep in the evenings.
The tincture can be drunk before meals as an aperitif, added to warm drinks - tea, coffee, and also to baked goods.
The product can also be consumed as a dessert drink, but it is important to observe the measure in order to prevent undesirable consequences of an overdose. As a drink for the holidays, it is still better to prepare a liqueur without using alcohol.
So, we have presented for you the 5 most popular recipes chokeberry tinctures. By preparing them and consuming them in accordance with the instructions, you can solve some health problems, in particular, normalize blood pressure, improve appetite and the condition of the gastrointestinal mucosa, blood vessels, and replenish the body essential vitamins and minerals, strengthen the immune system. And remember: the tincture cannot be used as primary therapy. serious illness, it can only be drunk as additional means and only after consultation with your doctor.
Video: Chokeberry tincture
One of the most popular low-alcohol drinks in Russia is homemade liqueurs.
Experienced housewives can easily prepare it from various seasonal berries and ripe fruits, but chokeberry liqueur is considered traditional.
This is not only very tasty, but also a very healthy (in moderate doses) drink that will decorate any feast.
The drink is characterized by a dark woody color and a wonderful aroma that cannot be confused with other alcoholic drinks. Rowan liqueur is an excellent aperitif and goes well with sweet desserts. Drinking homemade rowan liqueur is a pleasure! Tasty, fragrant, moderately sweet, pleasing to the soul and lightening the heart, it is considered the ideal “feminine” drink. It couldn't be easier to prepare it in your home kitchen.
Chokeberry liqueur at home - general principles of preparation
You can make liqueur from fresh or dried ripe berries chokeberry. It is considered a champion in the content of specific substances of organic origin, which are called tannins. That is why rowan juice has a very tart taste.
To make the berry suitable for consumption without large quantity sugar, it needs to be removed from the bushes when slightly frostbitten. after the first light frost. If the chokeberry is harvested earlier, then before preparing the liqueur the berry must be frozen artificially. For example, keep it in the refrigerator for two to three days. After such a “frosty imprisonment,” the character of the berry becomes softer: it loses a fair amount of its natural astringency.
It is very important to choose and prepare the raw materials correctly. Chokeberry liqueur at home is successfully prepared only from selected, ripe, large berries. After sorting through the rowan, you need to free it from the “legs” and leaves, and quickly rinse with cool water. Rowan does not tolerate prolonged exposure to water very well, so you need to rinse the berries through a metal colander or a thin sieve.
The technology is very simple and consists of separating the juice, fermenting it and mixing it with fairly strong alcohol and sugar. You can dilute the juice with high-quality vodka, properly diluted pure alcohol, cognac or good moonshine.
An elementary way is to simply mash the berries, place them in a prepared bowl, add sugar, various additional ingredients to taste and pour alcohol over two-thirds of the entire height. The liqueur should be left to stand for at least a month (ideally six months) in a regular living room, shaking vigorously from time to time. Gently strain the ripe liqueur through a gauze or cotton filter and pour into bottles.
You can add spices, leaves of fruit bushes, and citrus fruit zest to the mountain ash. Instead of sugar, you can take honey. If you want to increase the strength of the drink after straining, you can “strengthen” it with a small amount of high-quality vodka.
The second method of preparing liqueur is quite controversial, as it involves blanching the berries at a temperature no higher than 70 degrees. However, this method has a significant advantage: you can quickly try the dark brown noble drink.
To be guaranteed to receive delicious liqueur from chokeberry at home, you need to choose the right dishes. A ceramic container or glass bottle is ideal. These materials are resistant to acid and alcohol.
Homemade chokeberry liqueur “Classic”
A wonderful chokeberry liqueur at home turns into a fabulous drink. A pleasant light drink will warm you up after a hard day.
A kilogram of black rowan berries;
Three hundred grams of sugar;
A liter of quality vodka.
Pour the prepared berries into a glass jar.
Pour vodka over the rowan so that it slightly covers the berries.
Add sugar only as desired.
Cover the container and put it in a dark room for two months.
Shake the berries from time to time.
Strain the liqueur, pour into clean containers, seal and store.
You can store the liqueur as long as you like. Time will only do her good.
Homemade chokeberry liqueur “Spicy”
Cloves add a warm, spicy aroma to homemade chokeberry liqueur. Lovers of oriental cuisine will really like this drink.
One and a half kilograms of chokeberry berries;
A liter of high quality vodka;
Half a kilo of sugar;
Three clove inflorescences.
Gently mash the prepared berries with the end of a rolling pin or a wooden masher.
Pour sugar into the prepared raw materials, add clove buds.
Transfer the raw materials into a jar, cover with a gauze cloth, and leave for two days in a dark, warm room.
Pour high-quality vodka over the berries and seal with a regular nylon cap.
Infuse the liqueur for at least three months in a warm room.
Strain the drink through a gauze or cotton filter and pour into a storage container.
The drink will not run out of steam for at least three years.
Homemade chokeberry liqueur “Honey”
Gorgeous, soft, light and healthy drink will delight honey lovers. If you make chokeberry liqueur at home not with vodka, but also with cognac, you can get additional shades of taste.
Half a kilo of rowan;
Half a kilo of cognac;
Two large heaped spoons of honey
Pour the prepared berries into a glass container.
Melt the honey in a water bath and pour it into a liquid state into a jar.
Seal the container with a regular lid and leave for two to three months.
Store indefinitely.
Homemade chokeberry liqueur “Lemon fast”
The original recipe for chokeberry liqueur can be prepared at home in just two weeks. A delicious drink will bring true pleasure.
One and a half kilograms of berries;
A liter of vodka;
Three hundred grams of sugar;
Lemon zest.
Fill a wide but low heat-resistant container with berries up to the neck.
Fill with high quality vodka.
Add spices, lemon zest and sugar if desired.
Mix half a glass of water with two tablespoons of water, knead into a thick “dough”.
Cover tightly with the quick dough lid.
Place the container in the oven, preheat it to seventy degrees (no higher), simmer for exactly an hour.
Reduce the temperature to sixty degrees, soak the raw materials for another hour and a half.
Reduce the temperature again to fifty degrees and warm the liqueur for an hour and a half.
Rowan must be infused for at least four hours in total.
Turn off the oven and wait for the drink to cool completely without removing it.
Keep the container with the liqueur in a dark room for four days.
Strain the drink, squeezing out the pulp.
Season the liqueur with sugar to taste, pour into bottles and seal.
You can try the liqueur after a few days.
Homemade chokeberry liqueur “Ryabinovo-cherry”
Magical aroma ripe cherries gives summer bliss to this liqueur option. Fresh cherry leaves and citric acid complement the ingredients of the classic recipe. If the amount of rowan appears insufficient, you should increase the amount of ingredients proportionally.
A glass of chokeberry;
A full plate of cherry leaves;
A liter of clean water;
Three hundred grams of sugar;
A level spoon of citric acid for transparency;
Half a liter of vodka.
Mix the berries with cherry leaves in a wide saucepan.
Pour water over the raw material and bring to the first boil.
Simmer over low heat for half an hour.
Leave to infuse for a day.
Strain, add sugar, heat again.
As soon as the first boiling bubbles appear, turn off the stove and cool the broth.
Pour in good vodka, add citric acid, cover with a clean lid and put the container in a dark room for a week.
Strain, bottle and store.
Chokeberry liqueur at home is made quickly and simply. You can taste it!
Chokeberry liqueur at home “Summer Garden”
This version of chokeberry liqueur is very easy to prepare at home. A delightful bouquet of aromas of raspberries, cherries, and currants makes your head spin. Lemon acid allows you to achieve transparency of the drink.
A glass of rowan;
Bunch of cherry leaves;
A bunch of currant leaves;
A bunch of raspberry leaves;
A teaspoon of citric acid;
Half a liter of high quality vodka.
Mix the leaves of fruit bushes and chokeberry berries.
Bring the raw material to a boil and simmer for half an hour. Cool.
Pour sugar, citric acid, and vodka into the mixture.
Leave to infuse for at least two months.
Strain, bottle, and store.
Homemade chokeberry liqueur “Orange-vanilla”
The festive, jubilant aroma of chokeberry liqueur, prepared at home according to this recipe, makes this drink indispensable on the holiday table.
Three hundred grams of chokeberry berries;
Five liters of purified vodka;
A glass of sugar;
A stick of natural vanilla or a bag of vanilla powder;
Crust from one lemon;
Three buds of cloves;
Half a glass of fresh liquid or melted honey;
Half a bottle of vodka.
Mash the berries with a rolling pin in a glass jar.
Add sugar. Add your favorite spices and cloves if desired.
Pour vodka into two-thirds of the container.
Place the workpiece in a dark, warm room for a month.
If desired, add another half bottle of vodka or diluted alcohol.
Full ripening will be completed in three months. The liqueur will become transparent and acquire a rich ruby color.
Homemade chokeberry liqueur “Frosty”
Berries frozen by natural frost allow you to prepare a fantastic drink. Chokeberry liqueur at home can be prepared not only in a modern way - in bottles. An interesting traditional recipe will delight supporters of originality, although you will have to wait a very long time for the first try.
A kilogram of rowan;
Half a glass of molasses;
Pure water;
Pour berries into a ceramic barrel.
Heat the molasses to a liquid state and add to the rowan raw materials.
Fill the rowan completely with water, cover tightly with a lid, and put it in a dark, warm room.
When the raw material has fermented, pour a glass of high-quality vodka into it, shake, mixing the contents of the barrel, and cover loosely.
Repeat the procedure after secondary fermentation, and then pour in a glass of vodka and shake the barrel until fermentation is completely completed.
Seal the barrel tightly and put it in the cellar.
With the onset of summer, expose the container with liqueur to direct sunlight. Fermentation will begin again and the keg will begin to roll around on its own.
Put it in the cold and wait for it to cool.
Repeat the procedure again.
After the container heated in the sun has cooled again, pour the liqueur into bottles and seal tightly.
Chokeberry liqueur at home - tricks and useful tips
- To get the most intense taste of the liqueur, you need to make punctures in the berries using a thick needle or toothpick.
- Chokeberry liqueur is not just tasty, but also a healing drink that preserves the properties of fresh berries. It strengthens the immune system, reduces “bad” cholesterol, normalizes digestion, reduces blood pressure, strengthens blood vessels, and restores their elasticity.
- Cherry leaves can be added to any liqueur option if desired. You can make a great drink with apples or lingonberries.
- To prepare the correct alcohol solution, you need to mix 400 grams of water (preferably boiled) and 600 ml of medical alcohol. You can add it to recipes instead of vodka.
- Get more interesting taste You can if you dry the chokeberry berries in the oven. The temperature should not be higher than seventy degrees. It is important not to overdry the berries - they should just wilt a little.
Chokeberry, or chokeberry, is a shrub up to 2.5 meters high. Grows everywhere, in almost many climatic zones, V wildlife and on personal plots. It bears fruit every year and tolerates hot, dry summers and cold winters well. The fruits of chokeberry are round, black, small sizes, they are used both for food and as medicinal raw materials.
Chemical composition
Aronia has a rich chemical composition, thanks to which the fruits have such value for humans. Aronia contains vitamins C, B vitamins, beta-carotene, and PP vitamins. And also: flavonoids, catechins, anthocyanins, organic acids, glucose, fructose, sucrose, nicotinic acid, pectins, tannins.
There are micro- and macroelements: fluorine, boron, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, a lot of iodine.
The flowers and leaves of chokeberry, which are also used for medicinal purposes, contain rutin, flavonoids, hyperoside, chlorogenic and neochlorogenic acids.
Thanks to these substances, chokeberry berries have medicinal properties– calms the nerves, reduces blood pressure, saturates the body with vitamins and minerals, and has a beneficial effect.
Aronia contains little ascorbic acid, so it can be used with fruits rich in vitamin C - rose hips, black currants.
Medicinal preparations from chokeberry
The use of chokeberry tinctures will help cure the thyroid gland, reduce cholesterol levels, strengthen the immune system, reduce blood pressure, improve appetite, and normalize digestive processes, strengthen the walls of blood vessels.
The recipes proposed in this article will help you properly prepare chokeberry tinctures and use them correctly.
Recipe 1.
Chokeberry tincture with alcohol. Take 1 kg of berries, 1 liter of alcohol or purified vodka, 500 grams of sugar. Rinse the rowan, shake off the water, and place in a glass jar. Pour in vodka, add sugar, stir until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Close the jar tightly and place in a dark, cool place for 2.5 months. Once every five days, the contents of the jar will need to be mixed.
After 2.5 months, strain the drink, squeeze out the berries, and bottle the tincture.
In the same way, a tincture of chokeberry without sugar is prepared; in this recipe, three weeks will be enough to prepare a tincture with alcohol or vodka.
Recipe 2.
Chokeberry tincture with vodka or alcohol. take three liter jar Fill it 2/3 full with chokeberry berries. Fill with vodka or alcohol to the brim, cover the jar and place in a dark place for 3 weeks. Then strain, bottle, and consume as you wish. If you made a tincture with alcohol, it will be too strong and can be diluted with water. Vodka tincture does not require water.
To prepare the tincture, the berries can be used fresh or dried, but in this case the tincture will have to stand for 1.5 months.
Recipe 3.
Chokeberry tincture with vodka or alcohol with added spices. Take 750 grams of chokeberry berries, grind them in any way so that more juice comes out. Place the mixture in a jar, add 3-4 cloves, a pinch of ground nutmeg, a pinch of ginger, 250 grams of sugar. Tie the neck of the jar with gauze and place it in a dark place for 2 days. Then pour 0.5 liters of vodka into the jar, and return the jar to its place.
The chokeberry tincture should stand for 2 months, at a temperature no higher than 25 degrees. Then strain it through cheesecloth and bottle it.
Recipe 4.
Chokeberry tincture with honey in vodka or alcohol. Take 1 kg of chokeberry berries, add 50-60 grams of honey, 1 liter of high-quality alcohol, mix everything until the honey is completely dissolved.
We close the jar with the tincture with a nylon lid and place it in a dark place for 3 months. Once a week the contents of the jar will need to be shaken. Then we filter the drink and pour it into clean bottles and decanters.
Recipe 5.
Chokeberry tincture with lemon juice, vodka and water. Take 0.5 kg of chokeberry berries, rinse and put in a jar. Separately dissolve 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sugar in the juice of three lemons and 0.5 cups of water. Pour it out sugar syrup to the berries and add 0.5 liters of vodka. Place the jar in a cool, dark place for 3 weeks. When the tincture is ready, it will need to be cleared of berries and bottled.
You can use blackcurrant leaves, cherry leaves or a mint sprig to flavor the tincture.
Recipe 6.
Chokeberry tincture with orange zest. Take 1 liter of vodka or alcohol, 200 grams of chokeberry berries, zest from 1 orange. Place the ingredients in a jar, close the lid and place in a dark place.
The drink turns out more tasty if it sits for more than 3 weeks, but you can use it as a dessert alcohol after 2 weeks. To do this, you just need to strain the drink and bottle it. To taste, orange zest can be replaced with lemon zest.
Contraindications
Tinctures, preserves, jams and chokeberry juice should not be consumed by people suffering from hypotension, gastritis with high acidity, gastrointestinal ulcers, constipation, hemorrhoids, thrombophlebitis. Tinctures made with alcohol or vodka are not recommended for those who are being treated for alcoholism.