Blackberry Moonshine! Make the blackberry simple syrup by using a small sauce pan, combine the water, sugar and 1/2 C blackberries. Cook on medium to high heat until melted and liquified. Add in a little bit of lime zest to each glass. Wash out original mason jars to get rid...
When using fresh wild blackberries we always taste them to see how sweet or tart they are. We always start with low amount of sugar and then add more depending on the preferred final product. We first made a black berry simple syrup. This is the process we followed. Then we squeezed a couple of black berries into mixture.
Please note blackberries stain!!! To drive this point home: Distilling alcohol is illegal without a federal fuel alcohol or distilled spirit plant permit as well as relevant state permits. Our distillation equipment is designed for legal uses only and the information in this article is for educational purposes only.
We added 2 cups of washed and then towel dried black berries. ( If we use frozen we always defrost) We then let sit in the refrigerator- shaking it daily until all of the sugar was dissolved. Once the sugar was dissolved we found leaving it sit for at least another 24 hours works well -- but it just got better with age.