Homemade booze recipes
Have a bash at making homemade booze with these delicious infused and flavoured drinks recipes.
Give vodka, gin, fizz or rum an infusion of seasonal flavour. Try your hand at elderflower fizz or rhubarb gin in spring. Summer was made for tropical pineapple and chilli rum. As the nights draw in, turn early autumn’s bounty into sloe or blackberry gin.
Homemade booze also makes a thoughtful Christmas present fro any amateur mixologist or cocktail lover. Take your pick from cranberry and orange vodka, spiced whisky or bottled chocolate orange negroni. Homemade booze is the perfect rainy-day kitchen project!
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Bacon
Candied bacon bourbon
Infusing bourbon with bacon gives it a subtle smokiness, combined with brown sugar for a caramel undertone and a little orange for freshness.
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Summer cocktails
Pineapple, cucumber, mint and jalapeño rum
Infuse white rum with the summer flavours of pineapple and cucumber (plus a chilli kick for good measure). Top with soda water to serve.
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June seasonal
Oyster shell and samphire vodka
Samphire and oyster shell-infused vodka tastes of the salty sea air. As you might imagine, it also makes an incredible martini.
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Gin cocktails
Sugar snap pea gin
Infuse gin with the grassy, sweet flavours of sugar snap peas in this easy flavoured gin recipe. It makes a cracking gin and tonic.
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Coffee
Coffee, hazelnut and vanilla tequila
Coffee beans gently infuse into tequila over time, while hazelnuts, vanilla and sugar round out the flavour. Delicious over ice in the sun.
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Cherries
Cherry bakewell brandy
This infused brandy with cherries, almonds and vanilla has got all the delicious flavours of a cherry bakewell tart – in booze form.
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Christmas gifts
Bottled chocolate orange negroni
Bottle up chocolate-orange negronis to make fabulous homemade gifts. The flavours mingle and mellow in the bottle, making for one smooth sip.
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Rhubarb
Rhubarb gin
Our gloriously pink rhubarb gin is a cinch to make. It tastes great on its own over ice, or in a cocktail. Have a go with our easy recipe.
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Christmas gifts
Gennaro Contaldo’s limoncello
Gennaro Contaldo shares his recipe for traditional limoncello, made with the zest of Amalfi lemons. Serve cold or use in desserts.
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Easter
Hot cross bun spiced gin
Now here's an Easter gift that will be warmly received by most adults: a hot cross bun spiced gin infused with spiced flavours. Enjoy.
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Christmas gifts
Grapefruit and ginger vodka
Who doesn’t love a homemade Christmas gift? And what better gift to give than a homemade vodka cocktail, flavoured with ginger and grapefruit?
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Homemade booze
Fruit-infused Christmas gin
Say it with homemade gin this Christmas! Use flavoursome apples and pears to make this decadent fruit-infused Christmas gin recipe as a gift.
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Elderflower
Elderflower fizz
This bubbly elderflower drink is so easy to make. Light and fragrant, it’s a good alternative to shop-bought fizz and is low in alcohol (1.5V)
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Christmas gifts
Raspberry gin and tonic syrup
Pour this raspberry, gin and tonic syrup into glass bottles and give as a gorgeous gift. Or, make for yourself and drizzle over pancakes or ice cream.
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Blackcurrants
Crème de cassis
Fancy making your own crème de cassis? Here's the recipe. Serve this sweet blackcurrant liqueur alone, or topped up with chilled white wine.
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Christmas gifts
Spicy gingerbread vodka
Debbie Major's flavoured gingerbread vodka recipe, made with ginger, cinnamon, vanilla and cloves, makes a perfect edible gift to give at Christmastime.
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