Black Currant Schnapps

Black currant schnapps - based on fresh, wild or cultivated black currants and leaves - has a rich, fruity taste and a beautiful deep red colour.

Serve with cheese, cream cheese, cheese cake, ice cream, pancakes and desserts.

Or add a little schnapps to your black currant tea, juice, jam, marmalade and fruit sauces. Very fine as after-dinner drink.

Blends very well with...
cranberry schnapps · raspberry schnapps · almond schnapps.

Also, see how you can easily...
turn your black currant schnapps into a liqueur.

Recipe

Black currant plant with ripe black currants - Ribes nigrum

You can use both wild and cultivated berries when you make this schnapps.

Cultivated berries are just as strong-flavoured as the wild ones.

Just remember to pick or buy the berries when they are big, juicy and most ripe.

Pick also a couple of young, fresh black currant leaves and add them to the vodka.

The leaves will enhance the wonderful berry flavours.

Click here for info about the Black Currant Plant

Direction:

Rinse black currant berries and leaves carefully.

Leave them to dry in the shadow - on paper towel.

If your berries are frozen - defrost them in the vodka.

Use a clean glass jar with tight-fitting lid.

Fill half the jar with berries - plus a couple of leaves.

Fill up with clear, unflavoured vodka - 40% alcohol content (80 proof).

Steep for 3-12 months in a dark place at room temperature, 18-20°C (64-68°F).

Shake lightly and taste it from time to time.

Strain and filter your infusion into a clean glass bottle or jar with tight-fitting lid.

You can serve your black currant schnapps after it has settled for a couple of days. Or you can store (age) it up to a couple of years in a dark place at room temperature before serving.

Note: If for some reason you are not satisfied with your infusion, there are ways to adjust both taste and flavours - click here to see how.

Serve your black currant schnapps at room temperature in suitable glasses. And remember to keep your schnapps bottle tightly closed and in a dark place before and between servings.

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