Moonshine on viburnum: recipe and useful properties
To make alcoholic vitamin tinctures on berries is to provide yourself with useful drinks for the winter. Moonshine on viburnum is one of them. This berry helps well with bronchitis and other colds. It is also useful for high blood pressure. Preventive intake of small doses in the cold season is especially important. Having quality moonshine (double or even triple distillation), you can make a tincture in the presence of a bush of viburnum near the house. You only need to harvest it in time.
Recipe for viburnum liqueur
Рецепт такий. The fruits are sorted, rotten and blackened are selected. Then washed and dried Moonshine strength 45 – 50 degrees is poured into a suitable vessel (bottle of liters on 10). Berries and alcohol are taken in proportion 1 :1. You can add a little granulated sugar. It is needed for a liter of moonshine 150 p. The berries are poured into a vessel and it is tightly closed. Then put a month and a half in a dark place in the room. Sometimes the mixture is shaken by hand, enough to do 3 times a week. Then the finished infusion is filtered. Next is bottling. This infusion is stored 3 years.
About the benefits of liqueur
Самогон на калині робиться без тиску ягід. They should be harvested in the fall after the first frost. Bunches of viburnum are cut off. But not in rainy weather. Otherwise the berries will rot and start to spoil, if the moonshine is not ready yet. They become soft and juicy in autumn, accumulating nutrients. Viburnum liqueur contains vitamins, trace element iron and amino acids. Especially a lot of vitamin C.. There are more of them in viburnum, than in lemon. At a cold and a sore throat it is useful to gargle with infusion of viburnum berries. Viburnum tincture on home-made alcohol turns into a liqueur with medicinal properties.
Будь-які ягоди в самогоні віддають свої корисні речовини повністю. Alcohol as a solvent has long been known. Slightly bitter alcohol on the berries of viburnum will not like sweet tooth, but people, who want to stay healthy
About "Kalinovka"
You can not pour the fruits of viburnum in moonshine, and pour it on top of them. The stronger the alcoholic beverage, the more you need them. The juice released over time will dilute the infusion. "Kalinovka" with sugar is prepared as follows. First, fill the berries with moonshine and infuse for a month and a half. Then the moonshine is drained and sugar is added, shake the container. Then you need to let it stand for two weeks. Syrup will accumulate at the bottom. It is mixed with previously poured moonshine, getting "branded kalinovka". And how to use it, it's a matter of taste. The best solution is to prevent colds. Small doses of liqueur will strengthen health and raise the tone of the body.
