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Hi. I had a go at nuking some blueberry vodka today turned out as good if not better than steeping the fruit for a few months.
Iv got 2 gallon that I started stepping a few days ago for Christmas I will be giving it the nuke treatment later as well
Alan

Hi Alan

I'm not familiar with nuking flavours into spirit, what's involved?

Is it simple as letting the fruit steep for a bit in the spirit before 5 mins in the microwave or something similar?

Actually, giving it some more thought you could boil some water + some fruit+ sugar, stain off the solids, then use it to dilute your spirit to 40%

That could be nice and tasty :-)

I'm sure Alan will give you his method but I thought it worth mentioning that when making such delectable concoctions you will find it easier to strain/clear your product if you strain before adding sugar or sugar syrup

AM

Hi Anavrin
I put 1kg of blueberries in a half gallon jar with a cup of sugar then topped it up with 50% vodka an nuked it for 4 min till it was starting to nearly boil then screw on the top tight and left it to cool as it cools it forms a vacuum and draw the color and flavor into the spirit. when it was cold I repeated the process a second time.
Alan
if using smaller jars then only nuke for 1 min

Never tried the nuked fruit method,though iv'e done a quite a few citrus peel macerations,
with very good results.But i will admit i'm a huge fan of the nuked borboun style with J.D
chips or oak staves with a good heart cut from one of my faux whisky wash's, but i'm not a
fan of sugar wash nuetral's nuked with oak/or chips, it doesn't have that taste, it seems
to lack that something. It tastes like one of those £2.00 specials in the pub.

sidenote: and i'm sure Alan will agree, when he said 4mins nuking, do it in stages,my ancient
800w micro takes roughly 5 mins 30 secs. to bring 800ml in a kilner jar to 156%f-160%f I do two 2min cycles then take temps as i go any further. Might try a raspberry vodka nuke style just tocompare the taste aside from steeping.

cheers B_D

Have to agree Blue_Duck,nuking is not so good with sugar washes and chips or chunks.
It does have that taste.....
When I nuke,the micro-wave door is constantly being opened after the first couple of minutes,until I see it starting to boil.
It works for me.
Robert