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<time>12 May 2024</time>
<h1>I Made More Alcohol in 2023</h1>
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<p>It's May and I almost finished bottling all alcohol I made in 2023. Sounds like a good opportunity to write a quick
summary.
<p>Once again last year the cherry trees blessed us with an amazing amount of fruits. It seems my downy currant
(<i>ribes spictatum</i>) got envious because it followed in the same steps. I usually make my <i>nalewka</i> (the
closest English translation is <i>tincture</i>) only from the cherries, but since they currant was so seemingly eager
I decided to try it out.
<p>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.
<p>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.
<p>The final product was about 1.5 litres of <i>nalewka z czerwonej porzeczki</i> and 2.5 litres of <i>wiśniówka</i>.
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.</p>
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<p>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.
<p>Until next time!
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