📋How To Make Homemade Fresh Strawberry Liqueur

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📋How To Make Homemade Fresh Strawberry Liqueur

This homemade strawberry liqueur, made with fresh strawberries, is a necessary addition to a homemade liqueur assortment, it adds color and flavor to fruity cocktails and punches or it is served as an after dinner liqueur cold with a drop of lime juice. Its vibrant red color is the perfect addition to delicious cocktails for Valentine's Day. Make your own strawberry liqueur and give it as an edible gift to family and friends

Course Drinks

Cuisine Italian

Keyword Italian strawberry alcohol drink, strawberry digestif, strawberry liqueur

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 5

Total Time 30 20

Servings bottles

Calories 3009kcal

Author Laura Tobin

Equipment

Ingredients

2 lb fresh strawberry
4 cups 95% alcohol or vodka
2 lb caster sugar
2 cups fresh water

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Brewing the strawberries into the alcohol

Rinse the strawberries and remove the stem
2 lb fresh strawberry
Place them into a large bowl and liquidize them with an electrical blender.
Pour the liquidized strawberried into a canning jar 67 oz - 2-liter capacity
Add the alcohol and stir to blend
4 cups 95% alcohol or vodka
Store in a dark place for 10 days
Shake the jar every second day

Adding the syrup

After 10 days make the syrup dissolving the sugar into the water by warming it up on the stove
2 lb caster sugar, 2 cups fresh water
Once the sugar is completely dissolved, remove from the heat and let it come down to room temperature.
Once cold, pour the syrup into a 1 gallon glass bottle with a large neck and add the strawberries brewing into the alcohol with a large funnel.
Close the bottle and let it rest for another 20 days
Shake it regularly every second day

Bottling the liqueur

After 20 days, filter the strawberries
Pour into fancy bottles or small glass bottles with lids
Keep it in the liqueur cabinet and serve it cold

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Notes

If you are using very large strawberries, you may want to cut them in quarters before liquidizing them.
If you are not making other liqueurs and you 1 gallon bottle is available you can brew the strawberries directly in the large bottle instead of using a jar for the first 10 days.
If you are planning to store your liqueur in the freezer, make sure you don't fill the bottle all the way to the top and that the bottle is properly sealed. Even if the liqueur will not freeze completely due to its high level of alcohol, it will expand with the cold.

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