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I Made More Alcohol in 2023

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It's May and I almost finished bottling all alcohol I made in 2023. Sounds like a good opportunity to write a quick +summary. +

Once again last year the cherry trees blessed us with an amazing amount of fruits. It seems my downy currant +(ribes spictatum) got envious because it followed in the same steps. I usually make my nalewka (the +closest English translation is tincture) only from the cherries, but since they currant was so seemingly eager +I decided to try it out. +

The generic procedure is very simple: get some fruits, dip in up to 70-75% alcohol for 3-4 weeks, move the fruits +into different container and drop some sugar on them, wait another 2-3 weeks, get the alcohol from first stage and mix +with liquid released by fruits in second stage. You can twist this a bit, by adding additional sugar stage at the start. +It's usually shorter as it may lead to fermentation. You can also do sugar-alcohol-sugar. +

I chose to do alcohol-sugar for both, cherries and currant. I removed stone/seed from the cherries but added some +leaves into the alcohol stage. +

The final product was about 1.5 litres of nalewka z czerwonej porzeczki and 2.5 litres of wiśniówka. +They both are incredibly colourful and have a rather strong fruity taste. They are both about 60%. I like them. If you +fancy trying Polish tincture and you happen to plan a visit to Poland, send me an email.

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This year I will likely take a break. Even if I wanted to make some, I'd likely not have enough material since the +spring came quite early, backed off for a bit with some cold damaging the plants and making bees lazy (and killing +some). This resulted in little of the flowers getting pollinated and right now there's only a handful of visible growing +fruits. +

Until next time! +

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