Give the gift of homemade booze: 23 easy recipes for DIY liqueur (2024)

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What are the 7 types of alcohol? ›

In English, moonshine is also known as mountain dew, choop, hooch (abbreviation of hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit), homebrew, mulekick, shine, sneaky pete, white dog, white lightning, white/corn liquor, white/corn whiskey, pass around, firewater, and bootleg.

Vodka, gin, baijiu, shōchū, soju, tequila, rum, whisky, brandy, and singani are examples of distilled drinks. Beer, wine, cider, sake, and huangjiu are examples of fermented drinks.

Production of moonshine (or any spirit) without a permit or license is illegal in the United States. However, there are a few distillers that have taken to creating legal "moonshine" with government permission.

It works like this: Pick a juice with at least 20g of sugar per serving, add a packet of specially designed yeast, plug the bottle with an airlock, and wait 48 hours. Just like the fermentation process used in winemaking, the juice's natural sugar is converted into ethanol, with a byproduct of carbon dioxide.

Hard cider, mead, or even fruit wine, are all very easy to do.

Baileys Irish Cream

Baileys Irish Cream is a sweet alcoholic drink that seamlessly blends Irish whiskey, fresh milk cream, cocoa, and vanilla.

Beer. Beer is the most consumed alcohol in the world. In fact, after water and tea, beer is actually the most popular drink in the world. According to reports, in the 2022 brewing year, global beer production ended up increasing slightly year-on-year by 1.3% to 1.89 billion hectolitres.

What is the strongest alcoholic drink? ›

1. Polmos Spirytus Rektyfikowany Vodka. The world's strongest liquor is a rectified Polish spirit typically used by home distillers to create their own flavored vodkas. You can drink it straight, but since it's practically pure alcohol, it has a powerful kick so it's generally not recommended.

Types of alcoholic drinks - Vodka, Whiskey, Brandy, Vermouth, Cognac, Beer, Port wine, Rum, Gin, Cider.

The first 10 alcohols are based on the number of carbons in the chain. The first 10 alcohols based on increasing carbon atom count starting at one carbon for methane are Methane, Ethane, Propane, Butane, Pentane, Hexane, Heptane, Octane, Nonane, and Decane.