DIY Pear Liqueur Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is pear liqueur made of? ›

First up: The fascinating Mathilde Poire Liqueur. It's made simply from Bartlett pears that are pressed for juice, fermented, and distilled in pot stills. A touch of quince (a pear-esque fruit) is added to the distillate to enhance the pear flavor.

Place pear and vanilla bean in a sealable glass jar and cover with brandy. The jar should have enough room to add another cup of liquid later in the process. Seal and shake, then let steep for 2 days. Remove vanilla bean, and then let steep for another 3 days.

If you can't get the spiced pear liqueur, you could use a good-quality triple sec, orange liqueur (such as Grand Marnier) or another good fruit-based liqueur. Allspice Dram (homemade or store-bought) is another possible liqueur to use, which has spicy notes.

The ingredient list for our Spiced Pear Liqueur is simple—Bartlett pears, cinnamon, clove, organic cane sugar, and malic acid—but its flavor is anything but basic.

Liqueurs are produced by combining a base spirit, usually brandy, with fruits or herbs and are sweetened by the addition of a sugar syrup composing more than 2 1/2 percent of the total beverage by volume.

Most opened (and well-sealed) liqueurs should last for six months to a year (or even longer), depending on the alcohol content and preservatives. Once you notice sugar crystallizing on the bottom, discoloration, curdling, or other changes, throw the bottle away.

Poire Williams is the name for eau de vie (colorless, unsweetened fruit brandy) made from the Williams pear (also known as Williams' bon chrétien and as the Bartlett pear in the United States, Canada and Australia) in France and Switzerland. It is generally served chilled as an after-dinner drink.

Perry or pear cider is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented pears, traditionally in England, particularly Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Worcestershire, parts of South Wales and France, especially Normandy and Anjou, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Pear liqueur is a calvados based beverage with pear aroma. Golden yellow color, it has powerful aromas of fresh pear slightly spicy.

What French liquor is made from pears? ›

Liqueur de Poire et Cognac

We only use pear eaux-de-vie, Cognac, water and vanilla sugar made with Fresh vanilla from Madagascar. It is the equivalent of 18 pears that are needed to make 700ml of Belle de Brillet! To be enjoyed over ice or in a co*cktail, as an aperitif or as a digestif.

Traditionally made in Sicily, where it's called liquore da fico d'india, and Malta, where it's called bajtra, the liqueur is syrupy in texture with a flavor reminiscent of honeydew melon and an alcoholic kick. The prickly pear's hue isn't the only colorful thing about it.

Europeans craft this iconic beverage from the fruit North Americans know as the Bartlett pear, which often stars in cans of fruit co*cktail. When a bottle of Poire Williams is empty, a preserved, juicy pear remains at the bottom. How to free it from its glass prison once the brandy's gone?

These can range from the common, such as raspberries, oranges, and cherries, to the more exotic, like lychees and passionfruit. The chosen fruit is then typically macerated in a base spirit, often a neutral grain alcohol, to extract its flavours and colours.

Europeans traditionally sip unaged fruit brandy as a digestif, and we're all for that, but at 40% alcohol with no residual sugar, our wildly aromatic Pear Brandy is stunning in co*cktails.