During lemon season in Italy, supermarkets stock plastic bottles of neutral grain alcohol like this one so that people can make their own limoncello. Every family in southern Italy has its own special recipe. It’s a similar story in Poland, Slovakia and all over Europe where homemade liqueurs have long been a way of turning a fruit surplus into something delicious. Isn’t it time you go in on the act? To help you out we have this spirit distilled from pure wheat and bottled 69.9% ABV. This is the perfect alcohol content to quickly remove flavour and colour from fruit but without extracting harsh flavours.
You’ll find this ideal for making liqueurs from all manner of soft fruit like raspberries, cherries and strawberries. Or for those looking to take things to the next level, it can be used to extract flavours from spices such as anise, juniper and wormwood so you can make your own vermouth, gin or aquavit.
Here’s a simple fruit liqueur recipe to get you started. Fill a large mason glass jar with 1kg of cherries, add 35g of sugar and cover with 70cl of Grain Neutral Spirit. Close and leave for three months to steep. After this time, taste and if you’re happy with it, strain off the fruit (which tastes amazing with ice cream), and you have a homemade liqueur which should last for years.
Please note: We are unable to ship this item outside of the United Kingdom.
Suitably neutral, with soft grain spiciness.
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Exactly what I wanted, and ignore the negative review, it’s great value for money once you work out that of the £165, £27.50 is VAT and £100 is duty!!
A good quality, high-abv spirit in a large container - that's pretty much it. Given that current UK excise duty is currently £28.74 per litre of pure alcohol - the price of tax alone on this product is £24.11 per litre (£120.55 for 5 litres). £35 seems like a reasonable price to pay for someone to actually bother to do the distilling and packaging, and even deliver it to me for free! The previous reviewer lives on a different planet.
If you make a 35% spirit out of if by the time you add flavouring its £17 a litre completely pointless ???
