Homemade Apple Vodka Recipe - The Cookie Rookie® (2024)

FAQs

What are the ingredients in homemade vodka? ›

Vodka is commonly made from wheat, rye, barley, corn, or potatoes. Sugar and molasses can also be used alone or added to other ingredients. One distiller even makes an innovative vodka from Pinot Noir red wine. Whatever you choose, it must have sugars or starches so that alcohol is ultimately produced.

Some popular choices include cranberry juice, lemon-lime soda, ginger ale, and pineapple juice. For a more tart and refreshing drink, you can mix green apple vodka with lemonade or lime juice. For a sweeter option, try adding a splash of peach schnapps or a fruit-flavored liqueur like peach or raspberry.

Pennings Vodka – Made from Apples

Unlike flavored vodkas where the flavor comes from back sweetening with syrup, Pennings Vodka is made simply from the juice of our orchard grown apples and nothing more, yielding a smooth spirit with a hint of crisp orchard freshness.

Apple brandy is made by distilling apple cider, technically a wine, or mash into a high-proof spirit. Depending on the type of brandy, it can be clear or amber, and it may be barrel-aged, usually in oak.

The classic vodka ingredients are rye, wheat, corn, and potato but you'll also find rice and barley used as vodka grains. Since the distilling process extracts much of the flavor from the base ingredient, the distinction between the ingredients is subtle but it's definitely there.

Wine and Vodka

It will give you the wildest hangover in your life, especially if you choose red wine. The tannins in red wine irritate your stomach and literally drain the water out of your organism. And the vodka acts pretty much the same, leaving you drunk, sick and dehydrated.

Some people prefer pre-flavored vodka to drink straight, many brands provide such an option that adds interest to the vodka without having to add mixers.

CÎROC Apple is silky and smooth with juicy green apple taste and bright crisp green apple smell.

What is the taste of apple vodka? ›

On the palate, the vibrant apple notes take center stage, dancing with hints of sweetness and a gentle tang. The velvety vodka provides a solid foundation, ensuring a refined and clean finish that lingers with a pleasant aftertaste.

Fermentation will usually take three to six weeks, depending on temperature and yeast, and once it has ceased, immediately siphon the cider off the sediment into a clean fermenter. Repeat this process after a few weeks or when another sediment has formed. The cider should clear naturally.

Any fruit can become wine, but grape juice (and, almost as good, apple juice) have the ideal concentrations to become a happy alcohol accident. Alcohol is the result of yeast fermenting sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide.

Warming brown spirits like rum, bourbon, and whiskey pair particularly well with apples this time of year, offering comforting flavor combinations that are as refreshing in the warm days of early fall as they are comforting as the weather gets colder.

Today, most vodka is made from fermented grains such as sorghum, corn, rice, rye or wheat, though you can also use potatoes, fruits or even just sugar. The fermentation step creates a product with only about 16 percent alcohol by volume (ABV) — too low for spirits.

GREY GOOSE® Vodka is made from just two ingredients: soft single-origin winter wheat from Picardy, France, and spring water from Gensac-La-Pallue in France. Only GREY GOOSE® Vodka ever touches the inside of a GREY GOOSE® bottle.

Our vodka is distilled from corn, so it's naturally gluten-free. Tito's Handmade Vodka is certified Gluten-Free by the Gluten-Free Certification Organization. Some folks add a bit of mash back into the spirit after distillation, which could add gluten, but not us.

Vodka is made through distillation. Distillation increases the alcohol percentage through heat, using evaporation and condensation. This increase distinguishes it as a hard liquor or spirit, versus a non-distilled alcohol. The ingredients are first fermented, where sugar is fed to yeast to create alcohol.