Blackberry Moonshine Recipe: Crafting the Perfect Berry Infused Spirit at Home

Alright, I’m Chris and Cathy. Today, we’re going to show you how we make our blackberry moonshine.

First, make sure that the fire is off. What you need is two cups of blackberries, one cup of sugar, one cup of water, and some canning jars (quart size).

Here’s what you do: I put 1 and 1/2 cups of blackberries in here, and then I added the other half a cup of blackberries into the water and sugar and heated it up to a boil.

Now, I’m going to just add that on top of the berries. You should let this cool down a little bit before you add the alcohol.

What we’re using here is grain alcohol. It’s 190 proof, 95 percent alcohol by volume. This is Graves. You can use Everclear. We’re just using this because it’s about half the price. [How to make your own moonshine]

It’s extremely flammable, so make sure your stove is off before you add it. Then, we just pour that into the sugar syrup and the berries.

Put the lid on and then just give it a little shake. Now, you want to let that sit for a few days. This one here has blackberries. I did it a week ago, and now I’m just going to strain off the berries. You should give it a shake in the jar every day.

It’s a pretty color. I’ll finish straining that. Let’s give it a try. It won’t take many of them. Boy, that’s really good. It’s really, really good.

A couple of weeks ago, I did some cranberry the same way and some chokecherry. This next week, we’re going to start picking some highbush cranberries, and we’re going to do them.

I think they’ll turn out just fine. We didn’t do it with raspberries because we needed all of them to make jam and jelly this year. Next year, hopefully, we can try it with raspberry.

There you go. It’s a quick, easy recipe. Give it a try. It’s really tasty.

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Karl S

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