There is no better way to impress yourself and the guests in your house with some homemade liquor. Homemade liquor begins with your selection of spirit which in most cases is vodka. Since vodka is colorless and odorless, it becomes an excellent base for liquors. You can easily make some popular liquors such as coffee liqueur, Irish Cream or Amaretto with vodka.

Apart from vodka, whisky, brandy, rum and gin infusions also work wonderfully when making homemade liquor.

When you want to make homemade liquor, you need to first select the flavor that you want. There are two main ways in which you can flavor a spirit. One is by adding the extract of the flower or plant to the spirit. The other method is more laborious but reaps a greater reward. Here you will have to select the flavoring agent in its raw form and then add that to the spirit. This mix should be allowed to rest for a few weeks to get the maximum kick.

As the liquor infuses with the fresh ingredients and flavoring agents you will get an amazingly rich and flavorful liqueur. For example, a cordial made with fresh lemon zest will taste much better than the one made with lemon extract. However, in the case of some liqueurs such as the almond liqueurs, using a good flavoring extract works just as well, if not better.

Once the alcohol and the flavorings for the liquor have been combined, the mix should be allowed to rest for a while. This liquor and herb mix then is be transferred into an earthen pot or a glass bottle which has a tight fitting lid. This bottle now should be kept in a cool and dark environment.

Since most modern houses don’t have cellars where constant room temperature is maintained, you could put your container in a dark cupboard. In the absence of a dark cupboard, wrap the bottles in grocery bags and keep rotating them a couple of times in the day.

The flavorings for the liquor need to be steeped in the alcohol from a period ranging anywhere between a couple of days to a few weeks. If it is a fruit liquor that you are making then it will take two to four weeks for all the flavors of the fruit to be absorbed into the alcohol. Fresh spices and herbs on the other hand do their job well in a few days.

Once the flavoring of the homemade liquor has been achieved, you will need to filter your spirit. Fruit fusions especially have a lot of sedimentation that gets collected at the base of the container. To get a smooth and clear liquor you will need to line your strainer with a coffee filter and then pour the liquor into the bottle where you want to store your liquor. All that is left to make your liquor perfect is adding sweetness to it. Make sugar syrup with two parts of sugar and one part of water. Simmer this mix till the sugar dissolves completely and then add it to your liquor once the infusion has reached room temperature. Age your liquor for a few months and then it is ready to serve.