 Pear or Apple Schnapps
by: Denise on 21.Mar.2006 04:13:10
country: New Zealand
Does anyone have a detailed recipe for making pear or apple schnapps. I would like quantities of fruit, water, yeast etc etc ... anything and everything that will help me make a good brew of swiss schnapps. Also what's the difference between swiss or any other nationality schnapps?
Thanks
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 RE: Pear or Apple Schnapps
by: Moonshine on 08.Dec.2008 20:39:01
country: canada
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German word Schnaps (plural, Schnäpse), which can refer to any strong alcoholic drink but particularly those containing at least 32% ABV (64 proof).
To make pear our apple Schnaps. Put your pears or apples through a meat grinder. If you don't have a meat grinder, smash your fruit with a hammer. Put the ground fruit in your barrel, fill the barrel to no more then ten inches from from the top, you need room for the gases. As you fill the barrell with fruit ad some sugar (dextrose, white, or brown sugar), doesn't matter which kind, about 8kg for apples 6kg for pears (pears naturally have more sugar).DO NOT ADD YEAST. Loosely put the lid on the barrell. After two days stirr, loosely put the lid on then leave fruit to ferment for 3 weeks. Take your mash and squeeze all the juice out with a wine press. Now you have an easy to work with liquid mash, that is ready to be distilled. Removeing the solids keeps them from burning to the bottom of the still, which also makes your end product taste burnt.
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RE: Pear or Apple Schnapps
by: captain sorted on 04.Oct.2009 00:31:27
country: uk
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do i put any liquid in and if so how much and how much sugar i am makeing both pear and apple.
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