How to cook cognac at home

A scented drink with a rich history will decorate any table and for any occasion. Whatever the guests gave themselves - the welcoming owners always have something to surprise friends and colleagues. Cognac is one of the most amazing and interesting strong alcoholic beverages. In addition to the hot aftertaste, it leaves a soft loop from a whole bouquet of aromas: oak bark, cherry, grapes, tea. Cook for brandy wide glasses so that its taste and fragrance revealed, while he is heated in his hand. It is the warm drink of a room temperature that will turn stronger and faster and faster, such recommendations you can meet the most famous tastors. If you want to act as the creator of your own brandy, then this article will help you.

Prepare everything you need for cooking ingredients:

You will need grape pure moonshine. If you do not want to engage in hard preparations, you can use food alcohol or vodka. How much does mogon need it - it depends only on the size of your packaging and desire.
Tara for infusion. As a rule, this is a large glass vessel that you can tightly clog. Do not take wooden or iron vessels, as it ruins the drink. True brandy is kept in a wooden oak barrel, but it will be difficult to realize this at home, it is better to give preference to the glass.
You will need spices, especially oak. It is he who is the main component in a complex range of smells and flavors of brandy. You need oak siny. You can find them in building stores either directly in my yard.
Optionally added Vishni branches. It will give the drink a pleasant aftertaste.
Prepare lubricated sugar.
The rest remains at your discretion: tea, pepper, vanilla, nutmeg, laurel sheets, carnations, and so on.

After that, you will be prepared for creating your own brandy.

To begin with, make sure that all the tools are clean: the vessel, spoons, pans. After that, you need to properly prepare sugar:

In a preheated pot, you need to burn sugar until it becomes brown.
In fact, it is caramel. So you can just use your usual caramel recipe.
Add the whole moonshine grape or vodka to the vessel, and then pour caramel there. You regulate the amount of caramel yourself, but usually it is a floor of a glass of three liters.

Well, stir the caramel with a special long bayonet or cherry stick.

Your vessel should be heated to room temperature, like alcohol in it. Do not fit in a cold garage or cellar.

The most important point is the addition of the bark of oak. Experienced cooks Cognac recommend first to burn the Craer. Be careful, you can not allow char harness. It is only necessary to walk a little bit on top of the bark, until it turns and becomes just darker.

After that, you can add it to brandy, while the bark is needed as much as possible. An ordinary cognac is insisted in oak barrels, so you can imagine how much you need a bark.

Now add the rest of the spices on your own and tightly close the vessel. It will remain in this form in a room at room temperature at least a month. If you are silent gourmet, then wait longer, perhaps, even a whole year.

After that you can open the drink and please our guests. Please note when you open brandy, it is more to climb and leave it for a long time - drink it and move it to a convenient place for you. Do not forget that the homemade drink can be a little stronger and tart than the store.