DIY Pear Liqueur Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is pear liqueur made of? ›

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. In the final step, sugar and purified water are added to get the liqueurs to just the right sweetness and proof.

Pear brandy is a liquor distilled from pears, and is sometimes called eau de vie de poire. These are the ones you'll see with the little pear in the bottle, and there's no sugar added. Pear liqueur, on the other hand, is a spirit plus sugar and pear flavoring. The spirit can be brandy or a liquor made from pears.

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.

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.

Cover the fruit with vodka: Pour the vodka over the fruit. Use enough to completely cover the fruit and fill the jar, about 2 to 3 cups in a 1-quart jar. Seal the jar tightly and put it somewhere out of direct sunlight. Infuse for 3 to 5 days: Shake the jar of fruit and vodka daily.

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.

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.

Briottet's Williams Pear Eau de Vie (45% volume) is made using Williams pears from orchards in the south of France which produce very sweet and flavoursome fruit. Distillation following fermentation of pears selected when fully ripe enables all of the aromatic intensity to be extracted from the fruit.

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.

What can you substitute for liqueur in a recipe? ›

Flavored liqueurs often make their way into baked goods. Here's another spot where you can replicate the original flavor. Coffee-flavored liqueurs can be replaced with espresso powder dissolved in water, or plain brewed coffee; ditto chocolate liqueur and cocoa powder.

St. George Spiced Pear Liqueur has an impeccable pedigree: It begins as our flagship pear brandy, to which we add cinnamon and clove. We then add luscious pear juice, which brings down the proof from still strength to 20% alcohol by volume, and balance the sweetness and acidity with organic cane sugar and malic acid.

EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY: Poire Williams Prisoner Eau De Vie is made with the finest French pears, carefully selected and distilled to perfection.

A similar beverage to cider is perry. Made from fermented pears rather than apples, it is sometimes marketed as pear cider, although this name is not recognised by some organisations as the name for the traditional drink.

St. George Pear Brandy is made from the most aromatic dry-farmed, organic Bartlett pears we can find—and we pack about 30 pounds of fruit into every 750ml bottle.

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.

How do they get the pear into a bottle of Poire Williams liqueur? They place empty bottles over the new fruit on the trees and tie each bottle in place, allowing the pears to mature inside the bottle. It's quite a process, and it can be applied to many orchard fruits, including apples.

A light and fruity sparkling alcoholic drink similar to cider but made with pears rather than apples. Waitrose Vintage English Perry (500ml) is made in rural Herefordshire from specially selected English Perry pears, grown in this region since Norman times.