Question about how to produce a Fruit Liquer

[CaymanRumBaron]

Hello fellow distillers,

I have a question that has been burning me up.
In researching the still I wanted to purchase, I came across a 6 liter table top all copper alembic style potstill. They included a recipe for orange liquer which looks like liquid gold.

Heres how its done as per the recipe on the website.

4-5 oranges
1 liter of neutral vodka (store bought or previously distilled)
1-2 cups of brown sugar

Simply slice up the oranges into disks, mix up the vodka with the sugar and combine with the oranges in a bowl and allow to marinate overnight in the fridge.

They then place the liquid from the bowl into the still and then place the orange slices in a copper sieve tray inside the still, seal up the still and distill.

The distillate come out like liquid gold and is said to be sweet and sour. The potstill has little to no reflux whatsoever as the cover is the "column" with a little lyn arm that leads to the coiled condenser. The vapor from the boiling liquid is forced through the oranges slices. This process is quoted as a "basic steam distillation".

Is this a traditional way of producing liquer?

I ask since all the posts I see on here everyone is just marinating distillate and fruit and then filtering with no second distillation.

Thanks in advance

[Dnderhead]

if you redistilled it whould come out clear. and I thank it whould turn out something like schnapps.

[CaymanRumBaron]

Thanks Dunder

Thats my line of thinking too. Can you get sugar/sweetness and colour to come across in a distillation in a pot still with no column or reflux?

[Dnderhead]

no ,,,unless you boiled over, and as they say on here "puked"

[CaymanRumBaron]

Im tempted to post a link but dont know if i can.

I am also inclined to think that the sugar solution would start to burn if heated for any length of time.

Sure looks yummy though.

I have read about using a "brandy backet" on here to produce a cranberry vodka which is kinda like the copper sieve tray they insert inside the pot.
I assume that neutral is placed in the boiler and cranberry placed in the "basket" so the rising vapor strips the essence of the cranberry and carries it through to the distillate but not the color or any sugar that may have been added.

In my mind that would produce a clear vodka with a cranberry essence.

To a newbie like myself, the differences of a schnapps vs flavored vodka vs liquer are kinda boggling as some use those terms interchangably.

[CaymanRumBaron]

This the still guys and the distillate, notice the color on the board and in the decanter

[Dnderhead]

real schnapps is clear either distilled wine or "clear" alcohol, flavors added then redistilled. (unsweetened ,brandy in the white)
flavored vodka is vodka with flavors added.
liquors are alcohol (your choice) with added flavors and sugar.
(all but here in states ????? in witch they sell liquors as brandy,, flavored vodka as schnapps)

[LWTCS]

Purty lil display peice.

Will look nice on the mirrored mantle above the wet bar with a spot light directed towards.