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 lot of different cocktails that will surely appeal to you. Everyone has ever dreamed of trying it, at least a little bit.
Do you know that you can not look for this noble drink at a very considerable price in stores, but cook whiskey at home? Of course, this is at first glance a difficult, lengthy and energy-intensive process. The recipe for cooking may vary, in different countries it is filled with its own flavor. But the main ingredients are still there - these are cereals (barley, wheat, corn, rye or rice). These foods are easy to find in any, even the smallest store. Do not worry, everything is not as complicated as it might seem at first glance.
The homeland of the drink is considered to be Ireland or Scotland. Each country considers whiskey its own drink. It is produced in the USA and Japan, also received the name in the American manner - bourbon.
What kind of dishes do you need to serve whiskey?
This drink can also be called "cowboy vodka." Whiskey, prepared at home, some served in round-shaped glasses, others in octahedral. The main thing is that the glass has a thick bottom and is low. If you are in good health and you like to drink whiskey undiluted, then you can easily get by with tulip-shaped glasses. The shape of these glasses is designed so that the aroma does not disappear.
How to prepare oak blocks
Making whiskey at home is very simple, you just need to properly prepare the oak bars, which are then poured into the vessel. Burn these bars in the oven to create smoke. After this, prepare a container whose volume is 2 liters. Fill it with oak shavings by one third, put the bars that were pre-baked in the oven into it. Add boiling water there, add a little soda. Now leave to infuse until the water has cooled. Then drain the water, which has already turned 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 keep this temperature for one hour. Next, heat to 75 degrees and wait until it cools. Now add the yeast and set to distill. Instead of a steam generator, an ordinary electric stove can be used. Mix thoroughly and make sure that the wort you brew does not burn. Before the distillation process, you need to weed out all the excess from the mash. To do this, take a strainer or strainer and strainer.
We make whiskey according to American traditions
To reproduce whiskey on your own at home, you must have the following products: 8 kg of chopped corn (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 50 liter bowl, mix the flour and corn. Pour it with boiling water (you need 3 buckets). Now let it simmer for 4 hours. As a result, the mass should turn into a liquid slurry. Turn off the heat and let cool to a temperature of 60 degrees.
Next, add barley malt and stir. It is important to adhere to a temperature of 60 degrees all the time for 2 hours. It’s easy - just wrap the dishes. The action of barley malt causes the starch in ground grain to turn into malt sugar. The mass is cooled to room temperature, which means you should add yeast. Fermentation time is about 6 days. The alcohol content in the fermented Braga reaches 7%.
Steam apparatus produce distillation. The resulting strong alcohol is cleaned with a charcoal filter. It is best to keep purified alcohol in oak barrels. But you can use an analogue - alcohol is bottled in cans, pieces of pre-burnt oak wood (not coniferous species) are put there. Everything is infused for exactly a year. Alcohol is diluted and filtered. By tradition, the fortress reaches 40 degrees.
Tips for whiskey cookers
1. Performing distillation efficiently and carefully, you will achieve the removal of fusel impurities from the drink that spoil the taste.
2. If you use steam stripping, you will get rid of the lengthy wort filtration procedure, and you will not have to remove the precipitate.
3. In order to make whiskey at home, purchase small barrels. This is necessary so that the necessary processes, such as diffusion, extraction and gas exchange, pass faster.
4. Before adding alcohol to the barrel, it is recommended to insist it in advance in a glass or metal vessel in which oak sawdust is added.
5. Do not be afraid to prepare a drink yourself - you boast of your skill, and maybe you will come up with a different, more interesting way to prepare.
6. If you use steam heating to make wort, you will reduce losses, and the drink will become several times tastier.
How to make a drink from alcohol
Have you already tried making whiskey at home? What if alcohol is used as the basis for the recipe? It is necessary to prepare ordinary alcohol used for food purposes, dilute it to an indicator of 50 degrees with water. Lay oak sawdust at the bottom of the required capacity and so insist. After 7 days, the drink can be filtered and tasted. Of course, it is called whiskey with a stretch, but nevertheless the taste, they say, is interesting.
We make a drink from moonshine
Take 3 liters of moonshine (45%). Then grind 50 g of charcoal until it takes the form of dust. Put in a jar traditionally oak bark (buy at the pharmacy), dried apricots (7 berries) and coal. Add half a liter of moonshine and mix everything well. Next, add the moonshine that remains. Note that the bank is filled to the brim. Put in a dark place in a tightly closed form for two weeks. After that, filter through cheesecloth 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." Cook 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 made whiskey at home, then drinking it is much more pleasant, because you created the famous drink with your own hands. Feel free to have a cocktail party!
And a little more about the drink
This drink can be called cereal cognac, it is somewhat reminiscent of brandy. As you noticed, the preparation of whiskey at home is almost no different from ordinary moonshine. Due to the fact that the drink should be infused in oak barrels, you get a completely different, interesting and characteristic flavor.