Calvados at home from apples

50 servings
100 days

How to make calvados at home from apples? Prepare the necessary ingredients. Choose apples that are fragrant. The fruits of autumn or winter fruits with dense flesh are best suited. Yeast is needed special wine for white wines. In addition, you will need a large container for braga, a moonshine and an oak barrel. Wash the apples well.

Cut the apples into pieces, removing the ponytails and core.

Make porridge from prepared apples. with not too many apples, a food processor or meat grinder is suitable for this purpose. If you plan to make a large volume of calvados, then it is best to use a manual or electric shredder of vegetables and fruits.

Transfer the apple porridge to a braga container. I got about 20 liters.

Add the sugar or invert syrup to the apples. How to make invert syrup can be read at the end of the recipe.

Add water.

Dilute the yeast into 100 ml of water, cover and leave for 15 minutes, and then add them to the rest of the ingredients.

Mix everything well and leave to roam. The optimal temperature is 25-28 degrees. A foam cap will appear on the surface of the braga, it must be mixed periodically. You can make a hydraulic lock, but this is not necessary.

This is what braga looks like after 2 weeks, when she gave birth.

The finished braga must be filtered. To do this, pass it through two layers of gauze.

Pour the resulting cider into a moonshine machine and place on heat.

Distill the cider into distillate. Follow the instructions for your set.

Measure the strength of the resulting distillate. Bring the distillate with water to 42 degrees.

Distill the distillate again. It turned out almost calvados, only now it needs to be held in an oak barrel.

Pour the raw calvados into an oak barrel (it should be about 70% full), close tightly and leave for 2 months.

Drain the calvados into glass containers, measure the strength. This time I got 52 degrees. Bring the calvados using water to a fortress of 42 degrees and allow to stand for another month or longer.

This is the drink that turns out to be color.

Nice tasting!