Rhubarb Liqueur Recipe (2024)

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What liquor is made from rhubarb? ›

Rhubarb Liqueur, infused with orange and ginger, is a sweet but tangy liqueur. Perfect to enjoy as a liqueur, spritzer or co*cktail with an award winning taste and beautiful pink/red color.

Other smart ways with rhubarb: mixing it with dry and delicate manzanilla sherry in a Rhubarb Fix, with apple vodka and lemon juice in a Rosemary & Rhubarb, generously dashing rhubarb bitters into a co*cktail alongside other spring flavors in a Spring Fever or sipping the delightful rhubarb-based amaro Rabarbaro Zucca.

In this recipe, we will give you all the information you need to turn rhubarb stalks into a delicious wine that can be enjoyed in summer as well as on cold winter evenings. If you follow the instructions and quantities carefully, you will obtain a dry, slightly sparkling wine with an alcohol content of about 10%.

Taste: Sweet rhubarb but with some rhubarb tartness and citric acidity adding bite.

The ancient Chinese used it as a medicinal herb over 5,000 years ago. Native to southern Siberia, it got its name from the Russians who grew it along the Rha river (now the Volga). For centuries it was traded alongside tea as a cure for stomach aches and fevers.

With it's tart and tangy flavor, rhubarb goes incredibly well with things like strawberries, raspberries, mint, and ginger just to name a few. To preserve rhubarb, you can freeze it, which you'll find details on in the post. This post may contain affiliate links.

It pairs really well with a twist of lime, too. Add Cointreau to drinks that are normally a little bitter, like cranberry or grapefruit juices, to open up their sweeter notes. Orange liqueurs like Cointreau and triple sec go really well with tequila drinks like margaritas, as well as run drinks.

While cinnamon may be a more common spice to pair with rhubarb, citrusy, herbal cardamon lends a warm, citrusy note to a dish. A big pinch of ground cardamom can be added to any cake, pie, or compote, or you can simply add a little to the whipped cream you'll be topping your rhubarb dessert with.

A classic combination of rhubarb and rum. Smooth dark Guyana rum blended with natural rhubarb flavours.

Liqueurs & cordials. Liqueurs and alcoholic cordials are sweetened alcoholic drinks made by mixing or redistilling spirits with flavourings and colourings. Within the EEC a 'liqueur' must have an alcohol content of at least 15% alc./vol.

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This 96% (192 proof) spirit is anything but neutral in its alcohol content though.

Fruit wines should be served cool, similar to a white grape wine. The ideal serving temperature would be between 7ºC and 9ºC. This helps to bring out the fresh fruit qualities of the wine. Keep them refrigerated.

1 tsp yeast nutrient. 19 litres of supermarket juice from concentrate. I stewed the rhubarb on a gentle simmer in 2 litres of the apple juice. Allowed to cool overnight, and then dumped the lot into the fermenting vessel, along with all the other ingredients.

Breitenbach Rhubarb is a sweet dessert wine made from natural fruit. The best part about making the rhubarb wine wasn't tasting the final product. Instead, it was going to “Old Joe Beachy's” spring house to collect the frest stalks of rhubarb he had just cut from his garden.

This Rhubarb Gin Liqueur is a combination of London Dry Gin with premium rhubarb. Taking the fresh, tart notes of the fruit and gently sweetening them to create a spirit that is 100% Sheringham.

Fruit brandy (or fruit spirit) is a distilled beverage produced from mash, juice, wine or residues of edible fruits.

Absinthe is an herb-infused alcohol derived from fennel, anise, and the leaves and flowers of a small shrub called wormwood (otherwise known as Artemisia absinthium).

Koskenkorva's rhubarb liqueur, prosecco, and a splash of mineral water. Garnish with an orange slice, or maybe a rhubarb stalk if it's in season.