 Welcome to my channel and welcome to another food related video and what we're going to do today is make some pomegranate liqueur right? I have my pomegranates here it's been a good pomegranate season and we had this bowl all the way to the top right so we're down to the last little bit here might do another run as well to get some more pomegranates this week hopefully they'll still be out they'll still be good but basically what we're going to do is we're going to make pomegranate liqueur out of what we have left here approximately okay and the reason I want to make some pomegranate liqueur because as you know a couple of months ago if you've been following my work a couple of months ago we went through and I showed you my liqueur liquor cabinet collection where we sort of sampled the different liqueurs I made mainly all of them are basically fruit liqueurs right and what we ended up doing was making three batches three different types of liqueur added to my collection one of them was let me show you this one of them was the blueberry and if you looked at the other video I'll show you these guys more close-up if you looked at the other video you'll know what these look like when we put them together right and it took about a couple of weeks for them to be ready to be to be sampled right for the flavor to come out into the liqueur for it to taste really nice right and what I ended up doing these are the three that we made and I still haven't as you can tell my stickies are still basically just have stickies on there I haven't labeled everything yet and we did sample everything and we added some sugar to some stuff and sort of I didn't really combine any of the stuff but we sampled some of the fruits and whatnot right and this is the label we made for these three basically this one says cherry 2018 I used frozen cherries one cup of sugar and half a half a bottle of vodka right and this one right so this is the cherry one and this is you know we've had we've had some friends I don't we don't really I don't really drink this much but we've had some gatherings potlucks and people coming over birthday and whatnot so I've been giving samples to a lot of friends and stuff so I'm not a lush that I go through this much stuff but it is tempting because we're amazingly delicious right so here's the here's the cherry liqueur right so let me pour this so you see what the color looks like so I want to show you this before we make the pomegranate liqueur just so you know the product you end up getting and it gets darker and darker as as it gets older right within two weeks I was drinking them I was sampling them okay so here's the cherry one that we made two months ago right so let me pour that so you see it everyone tasting the liqueurs the cherries as well right I'm sure what the cherries like too here's the cherry and it slowly starts disintegrating right as you know the if you watched the previous video I have looked here here from like 40 years ago all the way to the most recent being these ones that we made two months ago actually I made another one that I'm going to show you about a month afterwards we'll be harvested some autumn olives okay so this is the cherry you can just pop it and it's um it's really nice right and this is what the liqueur looks like right now with the color after two months right so we basically filled up this jar with cherries added one cup of sugar and added vodka half a cup half a bottle of vodka 26 right and that's exactly what we're going to do with the pomegranates so let me just taste this again why not that is phenomenal cherry liqueur is absolutely amazing really so let's put this one back now you then you know what it looks like right another one that we ended up making and at some point I'll make legit labels for any right another one we ended up making and I've been sampling this like mad okay the strawberry one take a look it came out phenomenal really I've never made strawberry liqueur before I don't know why I just assumed because it was strawberries you know disintegrate quite rapidly when you make jam and stuff like this unless you add some what's it called talc is talc it's just lime basically to keep the strawberries together I just assumed it would sort of disintegrate a little bit but this thing came off phenomenal I was actually the strawberries because strawberries are soft the flavor the liqueur the vodka the alcohol had taken on the flavor within a week so I sampled these within a week and the strawberry was already starting to taste really delicious right and I might add as you can tell is there any more there's no sugar left in it so it all got dissolved okay and people have been asking me on the previous video how long does it take for the you know can you put the stuff what you make by heater if it's in the winter for the alcohol for the sugar to dissolve and how long you have to put in the sun for me I kept these in the sun because it was a winter and we had a couple of nice sunny days I kept them in the sun and sort of a sun room that we have where if you see in the plant videos that we made where I showed you guys my plant collection we have a little sun room where you know it gets nice sun it doesn't during the day if it gets sun it gets warm but at night time because we really don't heat that room it gets cool right so I just kept that there for a couple of days and most of the sugar had dissolved and brought them back here and by the time you know we're two months in is completely dissolved right so let me pour this one nice and I'll bring out one of the strawberries so you see it right so fantastic beautiful color really just amazing and I've been giving you know tastes of these with friends coming over and they're blown away I had a couple of friends who were like oh man I gotta make some too so this thing seriously it's amazing I'm gonna be making a lot more strawberry liqueur it's like liquid candy really it's amazing so let me bring out one of the strawberries the strawberries took on the flavor the vodka like strong so the liqueur the liquid is like strawberry candy really like liquid candy strawberry liquid candy the strawberry itself is very strong okay like really a phenomenal phenomenal okay highly recommend highly recommend and the strawberries the taste of the strawberries getting lighter and lighter initially it was much stronger right now the strawberries they're not as strong as they were the whole strawberries of fruit as you know two weeks two weeks after tasting it or even a month ago right month within it so it's getting more gentle the flavor so if you're finding the strawberry the fruit when you're eating and when you make the liqueur a little too strong just let it sit for a while the liquid will taste seriously like sweet candy um and the strawberries themselves will taste uh better with age okay that's what I'm finding out anyway uh so it's phenomenal it's fantastic and the other one that we made was blueberry okay and this is the blueberry and the blueberry took longer for the flavor to settle in okay um the reason I don't know I guess maybe it was because the fruit is uh not as soft as the strawberries okay let me just give my hands a little wipe let's use purple for blueberry for this so you see this one as well see the color this is nice and dark no that's a nice really these are three of the best uh wow no we've got some amazing fruit liqueurs here right but these ones are phenomenal okay I've made blueberries before as well so I know what the blueberry tastes like and very very very much love it okay and I do like making them sweet you don't have to make add as much sugar as I do um but that's just the way I like it I don't I don't want to drink too much so I make it sweet so I drink less it's just a flavor totally comes out for me right now since we made that video I've made another liqueur as well and this is um let me show you this this is autumn olive okay if you've been following my work for a while for a few years now you'll know that I live in an area where there's lots of fruit trees and stuff around and there is a couple of places that have autumn olives growing and we've gotten permission from the people who are growing it to harvest their autumn olives their one tree is extremely abundant it gives a lot of autumn olives right so every year I you know I go there and harvest the autumn olives and stuff like this and we put out a video where I showed you guys how I end up eating all autumn olives and harvesting autumn olives and whatnot right and autumn olives are phenomenal they like one of the most powerful fruits berries that you can eat right I don't know if they're categories of berries they must be berries right but this is what it looks like okay beautiful okay now we've tried making jam with these um but the seeds puff up too much for the jam and I haven't tasted this yet I made this about a month ago okay so we're going to taste it for the first time here so let's taste the autumn olive it's going to be strong okay now I'm going to do this I'm going to do this over here because it's filled right up to the rim let's put this guy here take a look it's very light colored right and this has been sitting for about a month okay so it might get darker with age but autumn olives they're not uh the color is not very strong on them right so let me taste this actually before we taste it let me cleanse my palate with water okay very interesting very very earthy feel to it it could be because uh as you can tell here I'm gonna put a lid back on it so I don't do spillage accidentally and let me show you this is a clean spoon right never put the same spoon in your mouth into different things so I got a bunch of cup there here that I'm using right so let me show you what the autumn olive looks like this is what the autumn olive looks like we eat these a lot during harvest time for we harvest it and for a couple of weeks they keep for a couple of weeks in the fridge we just you know put it out and we eat it just like this right crazy strong this is going to be for when you need a kicker nice drink though nice drink and it has the stems on the back of the uh just on the autumn olives right so there's a little bit of pulp in there so when I chew them you just spit out the the stems on it right now the reason I want to make the pomegranate liqueur is because I want to make a lot of pomegranate liqueur because I'm going to show you like if you take a look at this this is this is the jar we had of the strawberries blueberries and and the cherries right this is the jar we're going to make of the pomegranates so about double the size right and the reason we're going to do that is I made a little jar of the pomegranate liqueur about a month ago and that's the reason I want to make a big jar so if you're thinking about making liqueur out of something and you're not 100% sure what it's going to taste like or what not you don't want to use up all your resources just make a little one right and this is you can see the pomegranates in there and this is fantastic because the little pomegranate seeds come out and as you know I love pomegranates pomegranates are absolutely phenomenal we got a whole playlist on my channel of how to eat pomegranates at harvest pomegranates how to break down pomegranates how to make pomegranates out of dressing and how to mix pomegranates with your cereals or eat it with your yogurt or whatnot right and one other thing we've now added to our pomegranate repertoire I guess is pomegranate liqueur and take a look at this let's pour this in here and you get the little seeds coming in and the color on this is amazing amazing and it tastes phenomenal really really smells fantastic so good right there's a seed sticking in there so when you drink it you get seeds coming in as well which is sort of different than the rest of the liqueurs we make right very good very good so after making this that was the reason why we're going to make so let's make our pomegranate liqueur and the recipe is easy simple we're just going to add the fruit the pomegranates in there let's bring this jar out close use this spoon or I want to use another spoon actually I'm going to use a smaller spoon that I have here or a medium-sized spoon I guess that I have here that way I can just put them all in I am going to add one cup of sugar to this okay that should be enough and later on I think this week we're going to go and get ourselves some more pomegranates and this isn't going to fill up so I might come back and add more seed to this I was planning on making enough pomegranate liqueur pomegranates keep enough pomegranates to fill up the jar to about this up here but we kept on munching on the pomegranates right so we're using up our supply and we're like no no no no no gotta gotta save enough to make liqueur right with this batch anyway these are really delicious pomegranates let's do this our friends are loving these liqueurs they're like blown away when they taste it they're like wow did not know it was this easy to make amazing liqueur just that simple that's that's that's that's so we got this much pomegranates and again I'm just going to add one cup of sugar to this I might even add a little bit less ah no well let's see we'll add one cup and see where it goes okay so I basically use organic cane sugar okay so let me do this this is let me give you the different measurements this is about 150 ml okay 150 ml and it's two-thirds of a cup uh and six ounces so all you know three different measurements there I'm gonna add more a little bit more a third more I want to make it a cup okay so third so that's a third a third more so we're going to make it it was two-thirds before and a third makes it a whole cup okay so let's put that there put that here close our sugar lid sugar cup and as before I just use that use usually absolute vodka I like it that is very neutral but it's you know your preference whatever you want to use use in terms of vodka goes but use vodka or gin that are not flavored you don't want to mix the flavoring with whatever liqueur you're making right you might want to this up to you I I don't right I just use straight up just absolute vodka and that's my personal preference you can use anything else if you want as well okay so all we do is just pour it in right and I think I'm going to use the whole bottle and what I'm going to do later this week or next week is I'm going to leave enough room to add some more pomegranates in there okay so I used almost a whole bottle of 26er okay where did we put the lid for this oh well put it oh yeah we put it over here nice so I'm just leaving enough room to add more pomegranates to fill it up right because I do want the flavor to take it all in and the odds are what I'm going to do is add more fruit possibly as we consume the liqueur and eat the seeds because with this pomegranate the one we've made this guy right when we're pouring it in just the pomegranates seeds are coming in right as you saw so it's it gives it a nice different unique flavor to it right so all I do is and I give it a shake right just get it mixing in there sort of the sugar we're getting in there right sort of flowing down and it usually settles down the bottom so what I'm going to do with this is take it into the sun room that we have it's going to be sunny for the next couple of days so I'm going to leave it in there it is end of January so it is cold outside but when it does get sunny the sun room gets heated up so during the day the temperature is high enough for it to slowly get the sugar dissolving and in a couple of weeks most of it should dissolve within the alcohol and the flavor should start coming out because that's what really happened with this one that we made within a couple of weeks the flavor was there is very very delicious and you know we'll take it from there and basically as we start drinking the alcohol and obviously with this one as you saw the pomegranate seeds do come out when you pour it so we're depleting the pomegranate the source as well so as that depletes and whatnot I'll I'll see how the pomegranate liqueur fares over time right because this is this was my first time making pomegranate liqueur and fantastic and I'm curious to see how it holds out over a long period of time right like the cherry liqueur or lemon liqueur if the you know the fruit the seeds dissolve if it holds out well over time I'm just going to continue to add pomegranates to this possibly and more alcohol I'll definitely be more adding more alcohol to this to the big one anyway as we drink the alcohol but if the seeds aren't faring well if they're breaking down or whatnot I might just finish off this one I might do one more refill if we end up drinking this whole thing who knows right if we have a party with friends we might right I might add more vodka to it if the seeds are holding up okay if they're not what I'll end up doing is just making a brand new batch next year or later on this year maybe later on this year because I don't want to run out of this over the next year until the next pomegranate season starts right so I'll definitely be buying more pomegranates to fill this up with more seeds make sure there's enough seeds to you know allow the flavor to really filter into the into the vodka into the liquid right anyway that's about it that's what I wanted to show you guys that's sort of this area sort of a active area I sort of mix things up try new things out sample the liqueurs over time if they need more vodka I add more vodka if they need more sugar I add more sugar if they're not tasting if my taste buds don't like the flavor that they're getting I might you know put that one on hold and not make any more liqueur based on that fruit right and one more thing I wanted to tell you before we finish off this video is in the previous video I mentioned that you know I love blackberries as you know blackberry liqueur is absolutely amazing and one mistake I made was this I called this one here okay you won't remember this one it's very dark black liqueur I thought this was blackberry it's not blackberry as you recall there's a video put out where you know we're sitting out or sitting out in a patio sort of telling you what life as a geophysicist was like because I lived I did geophysics environmental mainly geophysics for about a year of my life right and what we did we sat outside in the patio and I sort of told you what a life as a geophysicist was like and we prepared elderberries to make liqueur so my mistake I thought this guy and that's why labor labeling is super important right I thought this guy was blackberry liqueur because it's so dark and black it's not blackberry liqueur this guy is elderberry liqueur the elder berries that we harvested and in that video the elderberries that you see me putting into the bowl right that's these guys here okay and it's crazy crazy strong I added more sugar to this I made a little note I made a little correction right crossed it out with elderberry so I added you know I made a little note here added sugar in 2018 okay and this one okay I'm just going to use another spoon elderberry has some elderberry has some amazing properties okay I can't even show you this this thing right take a look at that that's all you need for this just a little sip from a spoon to get the flavor and it's wow powerful very unique flavor I don't think I'm going to make any more elderberry liqueur because this is going to last us years decades and if you want let me show you what the seeds look like let me show you this as well bring out the big spoon give it a little let me show you what the seeds look like the seeds look crazy like large caviar seeds take a look I'm going to hold this under it that's what the elderberries look like fantastic very unique very unique flavor and the elderberries if you eat them they're very strong as well okay you don't want to eat from one understand you don't want to eat too many elderberries they're the stems I believe are a little toxic possibly okay so this is my nude amounts my nude amounts it's supposed to be very good for you but anybody knows more about elderberries you can correct us in the comments of this video okay so that's about it I hope you enjoy it I hope you end up making some amazing liqueur some amazing food and enjoy them for years to come okay that's about it bye for now