StillSmart

I searched the site and the word Krupnik appears nowhere. Not a once.

Has anyone a tested wow recipe they'd like to popularize?

It strikes me there's several distinct meanings to "distillation".

The easy one is fractionating neutral spirits, after which you can soak stuff and mix stuff in and let it sit overnight to mature and Bob's your Uncle. It divides into recipes with sweeteners and recipes without and in England you call the first set liqueurs.

That's how Krupnik happens.

The really hard alternative to making neutral spirits is not to fractionate. This allows all sorts of stuff to steam over into the product along with the ethanol and needs distilling several times to get the alcohol content high enough and makes rum and whisky and nobody adds sweeteners to those. I've not tried distilling without a fractionating head because I have no idea how to create a mash with an appropriate whisky or rum precursor flavour. Where does smoked peat come from? Garden centres? This sort of distilling sounds really difficult and arcane and skilled and you don't get to drink the product for years while it matures.

I appear to have digressed.

Krupnik?

Never heard of Krupnik before.
Uncle Goggle tells me;


Krupnik is an ancient Polish liqueur which traces its roots back to the 1300's. As such, it has been a traditional drink in Poland for centuries.

Despite its ancient pedigree, Krupnik's popularity has not faded in Poland, where it commands more than 10 percent of the liqueur market, according to a 1996 poll by the trade journal 'Rynki Alkoholowe'.

The skillful combining of a century-old tradition with modern production methods has produced an excellent liqueur, best drunk warm in the winter or on the rocks during the summer.

Krupnik (pronounced KROOP-neek), is made of natural wild bee's honey gathered in forests, and exotic spices. It has an outstanding honey-sweet taste and spicy bouquet with a strong, warming effect.

Once produced by the famous Baczewski Distillery of Lwow, Poland, Krupnik is produced today according to its original recipe by Starogard Distilleries of Gdansk.


I have no clue as to how to produce it.
Never having tasted it, I don't feel the need to think on it anymore.
Sorry.

I am unsure this drink calls for smoked peat, and I am unsure what that actually is.
Peat is used to 'smoke' barley to produce Malt,and indeed other grains sometimes.
Searching on here for 'Peat Reek, or Reak' should show a cheats way to the flavour.

HTH

Robert

I also Gargled it, I got a mixed response..the first being the honey spirit, but also the following.

Krupnik is a thick Polish soup made from vegetable or meat broth, containing potatoes and barley groats (kasza jęczmienna, archaically called krupy - hence the name).[1] [2] [3] Common additional ingredients include włoszczyzna (carrots, parsley, leek and celery), onion, meat, and dried mushrooms.