HI guys,
Growing up in Cologne, Germany,we obliged the ritual of drinking uncopious amounts of berentzen apple schnapps during the karnival season!
Couldnt find anything on the web apart from steeping apples in neutral or wheat vodka. I steeped 1.5kg of roughly chopped apples & 500ml sugar syrup & 5 liters of 80% neutral run through pot stil head!
It was ok... I had a bottle of the original stuff and it has quite an apple punch smell- sweet & sticky & gold coloured, so I reduced 3 liters of apple juice to just before it starts to caramelise, added that to the liquer... :happy-partydance:
OMG- better than the original 20% mine was at 40% and way smooother!!