🍷 Homemade berry liqueur: fragrant and natural
A simple recipe to prepare an artisanal liqueur with blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and wild strawberries. Perfect as a gift idea too! 🍇🍒🎁
Introduction
Berries – whether foraged in the underbrush or cultivated – are precious and versatile ingredients, perfect not only in cooking or pastry, but also for flavoring grappas and liqueurs with intense and fragrant taste.
This recipe for berry liqueur is easy to make at home and requires only a little patience for the maceration. The result? A natural digestive rich in aromas, ideal to enjoy chilled or to offer as a homemade gift. 🍷
📝 Ingredients
- 1 liter of white grappa
- 1 kg of mixed berries (wild strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries)
- 800 g of sugar
- 250 ml of water
💡 You can choose just one fruit for a more defined flavor: for example, only blueberries to obtain an aromatic blueberry grappa.
👩🍳 Step-by-step preparation
- Wash and gently dry the berries.
- Put them to macerate in the grappa in an airtight glass container.
- Let rest for 20 days in a cool, dark place, shaking the container every 2-3 days.
- After the maceration time, prepare a syrup by dissolving 800 g of sugar in 250 ml of water. Bring to a slight boil and let cool.
- Once cool, combine the syrup with the infusion of grappa and berries.
- Filter the liqueur and let it decant for a few days in a bottle before tasting.
🍾 Storage tips
- Store the liqueur in dark glass bottles to protect it from light.
- It lasts for several months, best kept in a cool, dry place.
🎁 Gift idea
Pour it into decorated bottles sealed with cork stoppers: it will be a great homemade gift idea for holidays or special occasions!
The image of the dishes is purely indicative and does not necessarily correspond exactly to the recipe
