This is a world-famous alcoholic drink,which is considered noble and prestigious, it is distinguished from others by its unique taste and special cooking technology. You can make a variety of different cocktails that will come to taste without fail. Everyone has ever dreamed of trying it, at least a little.
Did you know that you can not look for this nobledrink for a very considerable price in stores, and make whiskey at home? Of course, this is, at first glance, a difficult, lengthy and energy-intensive process. The recipe of preparation may differ, in different countries it is filled with its flavor. But the main ingredients are still there - these are cereals (barley, wheat, corn, rye or rice). Such food is easy to find in any, even the smallest shop. Do not worry, everything is not as difficult as it may seem at first glance.
The homeland of the drink is considered to be Ireland or Scotland. Every country considers whiskey its drink. It is produced in the United States and Japan, also received the name in the American manner - bourbon.
What dishes are needed to serve whiskey?
This drink can also be called "cowboyvodka ". Whiskey cooked at home, some are served in rounded glasses, others in octahedral. The main thing is that the glass has a thick bottom and is low. If you have good health and you like to drink whiskey undiluted, then You can do with tulip glasses. The shape of these glasses is designed in such a way that the aroma does not evaporate.
How to prepare oak bars
Making whiskey at home at alleasy, just need to properly prepare the oak bars, which then fall asleep in a pot. Burn these bars in the oven to create smoke. After that, prepare a container, the volume of which is 2 liters. One-third fill it with oak chips, put the pieces of kiln previously kilned into it. Add boiling water to the same place, add a little soda. Now leave to infuse until the water has cooled. Next, drain the water, which has already become brown, and fill the bars with fresh water. Do this about three times. This removes tannins that change the taste of the drink.
Beer Malt Recipe
Have you decided to make whiskey at home?Try this recipe using beer malt. You will need about two kilograms of malt, which we fill with water (10 liters). Now slowly steam up to a temperature of 65 degrees. Reduce the power of the steam generator and hold this temperature for one hour. Then heat to 75 degrees and wait until it cools. Now add the yeast and put on distillation. Instead of a steam generator, you can use an ordinary electric stove. Mix thoroughly and make sure that the wort that you brew is not burnt. Before the process of distillation need to weed out all the excess from the mash. To do this, take a strainer or mesh colander and filter.
Cooking whiskey according to American traditions
To independently play whiskey inhome conditions, you must have the following products: 8 kg of corn in a chopped form (crushed or ground), 1 kg of barley (can be replaced with barley malt), 1 kg of flour (rye or wheat), 100 gr. yeast.
How to cook?Strictly adhere to the recipe, and then everything will turn out as it should. In a pot of 50 liters, mix the flour and corn. Pour it with boiling water (you need 3 buckets). Now leave to boil on low heat for about 4 hours. As a result, the mass should turn into a liquid slurry. Turn off the heat and leave to cool to a temperature of 60 degrees.
Next, add barley malt and stir.It is important all the time for 2 hours to stick to a temperature of 60 degrees. It's easy - just wrap the dishes. The action of barley malt causes starch in ground grain to turn into malt sugar. The mass is cooled to room temperature, which means you should add yeast. Fermentation time - about 6 days. The alcohol content in fermented braga reaches 7%.
Паровым аппаратом производят перегонку.The resulting strong alcohol is cleaned with a carbon filter. It is best to keep purified alcohol in oak barrels. But you can apply an analogue - alcohol is poured into the cans, pieces of pre-burnt oak wood are put in there (not only softwood). All insisted exactly one year. Alcohol is diluted and filtered. By tradition, the fortress reaches 40 degrees.
Tips for those who make whiskey
1. By performing distillation with high quality and thoroughly, you will achieve the removal of fusel impurities from the drink, which spoil the taste.
2. If you use steam distillation, then you will get rid of the lengthy wort filtering procedure, and you will not have to remove the sediment.
3In order to make whiskey at home, buy barrels of small sizes. This is necessary in order to quickly pass the necessary processes, such as diffusion, extraction and gas exchange.
4. Before pouring alcohol into a barrel, it is recommended to insist on it in advance in a vessel made of glass or metal in which oak sawdust is added.
5. Do not be afraid to prepare the drink yourself - you will boast your skill, and maybe you will come up with a different, more interesting way of cooking.
6. If you use steam heating to make wort, you will reduce losses, and the drink will become several times more tasty.
How to make a drink from alcohol
Have you tried making whiskey inat home? What if the basis of the recipe to take alcohol? It is necessary to prepare ordinary alcohol, used for food purposes, to dilute it to 50 degrees with water. Lay oak sawdust on the bottom of the required container and so insist. After 7 days, the drink can be filtered and tasted. Of course, it is a stretch called whiskey, but still the taste, they say, is interesting.
Cooking drink from moonshine
Take 3 liters of moonshine (45%).Then grind 50 grams of charcoal until it looks like dust. Put in a jar traditionally oak bark (buy at a pharmacy), dried apricots (7 berries) and coal. Add one and a half liters of moonshine and mix everything well. Next, add the moonshine that remained. Note that the bank is filled to the brim. Put in a dark place in a tightly closed for two weeks. After that, filter through gauze and try.
The production of whiskey at home has already been tested, now let's try to make some cocktails with a noble drink.
1. "Evening in London". Prepare and cool 250 ml of tea, add 60 ml of whiskey, ice and lemon. Do not add sugar.
2. "Manhattan". Mix in a shaker 20 ml of vermouth, 40 ml of drink, 10 ml of vodka and shake. Add ice, lemon or orange.
If you were preparing whiskey at home, then it is much more pleasant to drink it, because you made a famous drink with your own hands. Feel free to have a cocktail party!
And a little more about the drink
Этот напиток можно назвать злаковым коньяком, он something like brandy. As you have noticed, the preparation of whiskey at home is almost no different from ordinary home brewing. Due to the fact that the drink must be infused in oak barrels, you get a completely different, interesting and characteristic flavor.
