Schnapps Related Articles

About liqueurs and liqueur making
Liqueurs are alcoholic beverages with high sugar content and a variety of flavourings. Liqueur making is easy. You just add a sugar syrup to your flavoured schnapps and leave it for a while to settle.

Try to experiment with other spirits
When you make flavoured schnapps and liqueurs, you will normally use spirits like Danish schnapps, vodka or grain alcohol as base. But try to experiment with other types of spirits, also. It can be very rewarding.

Danish Christmas glogg
Danish Christmas glogg is a hot, mulled wine beverage. Usually made with red wine, port wine and high proof spirits - and spiced with citrus peels, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, raisins and almonds.

Cooking with alcohol
Cooking with alcohol is a great way to enrich and intensify taste and flavours of your cooking ingredients. Use wine or spirits such as your homemade flavoured schnapps, brandy, rum, whiskey, calvados, etc.

About crystal stemware and glasses
Crystal stemware and glasses have a coarser and more porous surface than ordinary glassware. The coarser surface helps to release and enhance the special aromas of wines, schnapps and other spirits.

How to care for your crystal glassware
Crystal stemware and glasses are beautiful, but also softer and more delicate on the surface than other glassware. However, handle your crystalware with care, and it will stay beautiful for many years.

Buying on eBay auctions
Buying on eBay auctions is a great and convenient way to get hold of rare, unique and unusual items from around the world - including old schnapps glasses and stemware, bottles and decanters.

Picking wild plants - for schnapps making
Picking wild fruits, berries, herbs and other plant material for schnapps making is fun and very rewarding. But it requires that you really know about the plant material you want to use.

About plants and constituents
Taste, flavours and colours from plants come from many active and very complex chemical and biological constituents. These influence our health and well being. They can do good - and they can poison.

About plant identification
Plant identification takes time and work. But it's worth it. Because nature offers so many delicious fruits, berries, herbs and flowers you can use to add new taste and flavours to your schnapps.

About botanical names
Botanical - or scientific - names are written in Latin and used all over the world. Each botanical name consists of two parts. The first part indicates the genus of the plant. The second name indicates the species.

Drying herbs
Harvesting and drying herbs should be done correctly in order to get the most out of the herbs you are trying to preserve. Read here about how to dry herbs, and how to store them properly.