Home brandy from alcohol will be an excellent substitute for a middle-priced purchase. If you succeed, then take for preparation wine alcohol, but you can replace it with an ordinary 40% (diluted) ethyl alcohol, quality vodka or a well-purified moonshine.
The recipe for homemade cognac for alcohol
The main feature of cooking cognac is the following: the drink should be given a color. This can be done using several technologies. In the first recipe for this purpose we will use burnt sugar.
Ingredients:
- 40% alcohol - 2.8 liters;
- sugar - 65 g;
- bark of oak - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- buds of a carnation - 2 pieces;
- nutmeg (whole) - 1/3 pcs.
Preparation
Ideally, to make cognac from alcohol at home, use fresh oak barrels, but since most of us do not have them, the oak bark will replace the aroma of wood. We will insist the brandy in an ordinary bank.
First you should turn the sugar into a dark caramel, placing it on an average fire in a sauté pan. At the output will be about a couple of tablespoons of caramel, which is then cooled and dissolved in alcohol. After the caramel goes and the bark of oak, and with it a carnation and a piece of whole nutmeg. The finished mixture is then covered with a lid and left in the dark and cool for a month. After the infusion, the beverage is passed through the gauze filter.
Homemade cognac from alcohol - quick recipe
Of course, this recipe of cognac can be called relatively quick, since it takes not a month to insist, but not a few hours, but a whole week. Taste and color in this case will provide not sugared sugar, but coffee.
Ingredients:
- alcohol - 1,2 l;
- sugar - 10 g;
- ground coffee - 5 g;
- laurel leaf - 1 pc .;
- buds of a carnation - 2 pieces;
- pepper (black, pea) - 2 pcs.
Preparation
Overflowing 40-degree alcohol in a jar, dilute sugar in it. On a double or triple layer of gauze, pour out the coffee, put the laurel leaf, add the cloves and peas of pepper. Bind the edges of the gauze, form a bag from it and put it into alcohol. Leave the beverage under the lid in the cool for about a week. When the infusion is complete, the bag is taken out of the drink and the tasting begins.
Homemade Cognac from alcohol with chocolate
To give cognac is not only a pleasant shade, but also a taste, chocolate will help. Thanks to the addition of melted chocolate, the drink will resemble a pleasant, sweetish filling.
Ingredients:
- chocolate black - 210 g;
- alcohol - 1.4 liters;
- water 355 ml;
- Vanilla sugar - 5 g;
- sugar - 840 g.
Preparation
Melt the chocolate in any convenient way. After melting, pour the chocolate with vodka and leave the mixture to stand for a couple of days, shaking the drink from time to time. Next, you should prepare a simple syrup based on a mixture of water and sugar. Once the syrup has a light caramel color, remove it from the heat and mix with the vanilla sugar.
Mixture of chocolate and alcohol carefully strain, combine with syrup, then pour the drink into glass bottles and store in the refrigerator for a couple of days.
How to make homemade cognac from alcohol with prunes?
Ingredients:
- alcohol - 540 ml;
- prunes - 5 pcs .;
- cloves - 1 bud;
- pea pepper - 3 pcs .;
Preparation
Mix all the ingredients in a glass vessel and leave to cool for 10 days. Every two days a container with a drink is shaken. Then cognac is filtered through a filter of cotton wool and gauze, and then left in bottles for another couple of days.