Dilute pure alcohol. How to make good vodka from alcohol

Most tinctures and other homemade spirits do not require 96% alcohol, but a diluted version of it. In this case, it is very useful to know how to properly dilute alcohol with water and not adjust. At the same time, for tinctures, as a rule, not 40% vodka is needed. As you know, alcohol is a good solvent, therefore, the greater its content in the liquid, the more it draws the substances we need from the products (mainly essential oils). In this regard, it is recommended to use alcohol with a strength of at least 45-50%, but it is better to dilute it to 70%, if we are not talking about selected drinks, for example, Limoncello, which initially needs to be insisted on pure alcohol. The process of diluting alcohol with water is called the "cold" method of production and is sometimes used even in distilleries. For us, ordinary people, this is an ideal way to get a solution of the strength we need, including vodka. In principle, the process is not complicated, but the observance of technology is very welcome here.

How to dilute alcohol?

It would seem that it could be easier than diluting alcohol - mixed it with water - and you're done. But no. There are many nuances here.

Firstly, alcohols are different and with different strengths (first-class - 96%, with the highest purification - 96.2%, "extra" - 96.5%, "luxury" - 96.3%, medical and dry (anhydrous) ). The degree of purification of alcohol directly depends on the type. And the diversity of species is related to what exactly alcohol is obtained from (from which grain).

Secondly, the water for breeding should be taken the purest, completely transparent, so to speak - without color, taste and smell. In addition, it will be better if there are no salts in it. In addition, this water must be further purified, filtered and softened. The finished version is usually referred to as “corrected water”. At home, for diluting alcohol, it is best to purchase distilled water at a pharmacy, but in no case should you take regular water from the tap in the kitchen.

How to dilute alcohol without risk to health?

Alcohol is diluted with water and other ingredients to obtain vodka. Self-preparation of a drink practically does not differ from factory technologies. The advantage of this cooking procedure is that you control everything yourself. And, therefore, you will be sure that you will prepare a normal product, with or without, according to your taste, various additives and without the risk of getting poisoned with burned vodka. How to properly dilute alcohol and will be discussed in the article.

Preparation of ingredients

Alcohol

The preparation of vodka from alcohol by dilution in water is called the “cold method” by technologists. This operation is often used in distilleries. The technology is proven, proven, economical. As a result of dilution, a high-quality food product with a known intoxicating effect is obtained. In this process, the main thing is to follow the step by step order of mixing all the ingredients. But first you need to prepare them.

Choose an alcohol from the list below:

• 96.5% - extra;
• 96.3% - luxury;
• 96.2% - the highest purification;
• 96% - first grade;
• medical;
• anhydrous.

The best quality alcohol is a product labeled "Lux". And the worst option (for lack of a better one) is alcohol of the highest purity. (Don't be surprised - it's true, a hundredth of a percent is very important!)

Water

After choosing the main raw material, it is necessary to prepare water, in which then it will be necessary to dilute alcohol. This component can be filtered or distilled. With filtered, different results can occur, they depend on the hardness of the water and its mineral composition. And with “distillate” there are practically no options for failure (if it is really a distilled product). It is never necessary to use tap water (“Zhekovskaya”) without purification - spoil both the final product and simply transfer valuable alcohol.

There are recommendations to use spring water, pure bottled water, pure melt water. With these options, everything is very ambiguous. Spring water is often hard, purchased water from a supermarket is also not distinguished by the purity of its parameters, and we do not recommend melted water (with our ecology). (The last tip will be especially relevant not only for residents of cities, but also suburbs, small towns and villages located near industrial giants within up to 100 km.)

Additives

As various additives in industrial production, various acids and additives are used. Acetic and citric acid are the most popular. Vinegar in honor of its cheapness and sugary smell, and lemon - to soften hard water (even filtered water can be hard). Sugar, aromatic essences are added to vodka as additives, milk and honey are added in small quantities.

The use of these ingredients depends only on your taste preferences. Love “bitter”, real and burning, “so that it warms” - do not use additives. If you like a “soft to go on its own” product, experiment by adding little by little and come up with your perfect recipe.

We do according to the formula

In order to obtain a drink with a strength of 40% (vodka) from a liter of alcohol with a strength of 96%, you need to pour this liter of alcohol into 1.4 liters of water.

This operation is performed based on the following formula: X=P*(N/M-1)

• X- this is the amount of water in milliliters that will be needed to obtain a solution of the desired strength
• P is the volume of alcohol we have in milliliters
• N- this is the strength of the existing alcohol, which we dilute
• M- this is the fortress we want to get

See how we got the figure 1.4 liters (1400 milliliters) using this formula: we multiplied 1000 (the volume of alcohol we have in ml) by the number obtained by subtracting one (1) from the result of dividing 96 (the strength of the alcohol available) by 40 (the fortress we want to get): 1400=1000*(96/40-1).

Another example: in order to get a drink with a strength of 50% from a liter of alcohol with a strength of 96%, you need to pour this liter of alcohol into 920 milliliters of water: 920=1000*(96/50-1)

However, you may have alcohol with a strength not of 96%, but lower, then the above formula will not work. In this case, it will help you alcohol dilution table - Fertman table.

How to dilute a liter of 96% alcohol?

If you wish to receive 40 degree vodka, by diluting alcohol, then you should mix a liter of alcohol with 1440 ml of water. Not so strong drinks are often required, for example, 30% or 35% . To obtain them, a liter of alcohol will need to be combined with 2240 and 1785 ml, respectively. If you pour 1175 ml of water into a liter of 96% alcohol, you will end up with an alcoholic drink with a strength of 45% . Achieve a fortress 50% You can mix a liter of alcohol and 960 grams of water. When 780 ml of water is added to a liter of alcohol, an alcoholic drink with a strength of 55% .

To get a drink with a strength 60 degrees, you need to combine 1000 ml of pure alcohol with 630 ml of water. What strength do you think the drink will turn out as a result of mixing a liter of alcohol with half a liter of water? Correctly, 65% . By diluting a liter of pure alcohol with 390 ml of water, we get a drink with a strength 70% .

Stronger concentrations, namely 75% , 80% , 85% and 90% obtained by mixing a liter of alcohol with 295 ml, 209 ml, 135 ml and 65 ml of water, respectively.

Obviously, as a result of the manipulations listed above, it is often possible to obtain a rather large volume of an alcoholic beverage, which may turn out to be superfluous. We believe that in this case it would be appropriate to tell you in what proportions water and alcohol should be combined in order to get a liter of drink (plus / minus 50 ml).

How to dilute 96% alcohol to get a liter of vodka?

Liter of real 40 degree vodka can be obtained by mixing 421 ml of alcohol and 607 ml of water. When you combine 632 ml of alcohol and 397 ml of water, you get a little more than a liter 60% -drink. By mixing 474 ml of alcohol and 556 ml of water, you can get 1030 ml 45% - drink.

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Diluting 316 ml of alcohol with 707 ml of water will make a low-alcohol drink ( 30% ). Drink by strength 35% obtained by mixing 368 ml of alcohol with 658 ml of water. Create drinks with strength 50% and 55% , you can combine 526 ml and 579 ml of alcohol with 504 and 451 ml of water, respectively.

By diluting 684 ml of 96% alcohol with 343 ml of water, you can get an alcoholic drink with a strength 65% . Liter, more precisely a little more, 70% -nogo drink is easy to get if you mix 737 ml of alcohol and 288 ml of water.

The strongest concentrations ( 75%, 80%, 85% and 90%) are obtained by mixing 789 ml of alcohol with 233 ml of water, 852 ml of alcohol with 176 ml of water, 895 ml of alcohol with 119 ml of water and 947 ml of alcohol with 61 ml of water, respectively.

settling

After we have received the solution we need in terms of strength, we still cannot call it ready, it needs to be infused for several days, and preferably for a whole week, this is necessary for all the chemical reactions that occur there to be completed. Moreover, it is necessary to defend at a temperature of +5 degrees Celsius in a tightly closed and completely filled container, otherwise alcohol will lose its properties upon contact with oxygen.

This is how the solution settles, you can already safely start preparing various tinctures or other alcoholic beverages at home.

Recipes

Spicy vodka

Spice lovers should definitely try this recipe. 3 cups of water are combined with 2 cups of alpha alcohol, mixed and cooled. After a few hours, the bottle is opened and 1 cup of dry lemon zest is thrown into it. The drink is infused in cool conditions for another 5 hours and the infusion is distilled through a moonshine still.

Further, the recipe requires measuring the distillate and adding 5 g of cinnamon to each liter of it. Nutmeg and cardamom put 1 g each. For a richer taste, spices are poured in larger quantities. Then the vodka with aromatic additives and alcohol is tightly closed and cleaned in a warm room. You can simply wrap the bottle with a blanket or put it in a hot oven for 11 hours.

After the specified time, the container is moved to a dark place where the drink should be infused for 12 hours. The finished product is filtered through folded gauze and cooled. Add sugar or glucose if desired.

Do-it-yourself "pepper"

You can prepare this version of alcoholic products from the following set of ingredients:

• cloves - 2 heads;
• red pepper - 1 pod;
• black pepper allspice - 6 peas;
• vodka with an alcohol base alpha - 0.5 l.

So that peppercorns and cloves do not float in the container, they can be placed in a red pod. Seeds are taken out of the vegetable cut along the length and the void is filled with the necessary components. The pod is thrown into a jar and after 3-5 days they try the drink.

Vodka-Kedrovka

The recipe for this drink is also not complicated. You will need half a kilo of unpeeled pine nuts, 2 liters of water (it is needed to evaporate the resin from the nuts) and 3 liters of alpha vodka.

Work with ingredients like this:

1. nuts are boiled for 5 minutes, after which they change the water and extend the boil for another 5 minutes;
2. nuts are discarded in a colander and wait for the water to drain;
3. cedar fruits are placed in vodka.

Drink "two in one" - vodka-cognac

The following recipe requires a more solid set of ingredients:

• soda - 0.5 tsp;
• cloves - 2 pcs.;
• sugar - 1 tsp;
• bay leaf - 2;
• alpha vodka - 3 l;
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
• oak bark powder - 1 tsp;
• black pepper - 3 peas;
• instant coffee - 1 tsp;
• brewing high-quality loose tea - 1 tsp.

The ingredients are collected in a total mass and put the pan on a quiet fire. The container is covered with a transparent lid and the hole is closed with bread crumb. Just before boiling, flavored vodka alpha is removed from the oven and taken out to cool. When cooled, it is filtered through gauze, bottled and put into a refrigeration unit.

Lemon spirit vodka

A soft refreshing drink is made from alpha vodka (400 ml), one lemon and water (600 ml). Citrus fruit is poured with boiling water, wiped and peeled from it with a knife. The zest is thinly sliced ​​and placed in a bottle. In a separate bowl, mix water with alcohol and put the mixture in the refrigerator for several hours.

The juice is squeezed out of the remaining pulp and collected in a jar. Vodka infusion is divided equally. One part is diluted with lemon juice, the other is poured into a bottle with zest. Banks are closed and taken out for 2 weeks in a dark, dry place. Drinks are sipped and tasted.

This recipe can be improved by additionally distilling vodka through the apparatus and diluting it with sugar syrup. Any alpha vodka is easy to make without moonshine "technology". It is recommended that the alcohol mixture be infused in a cold place for at least 14 days, filtered and kept for another 3 days.

Unusual way

You can also make vodka from alcohol with the addition of various spices, which will add spice to the taste.

To get the product, you need to prepare the ingredients:

• 3 glasses of water;
• 2 glasses of alcohol;
• 1 cup dried lemon peel;
• cardamom, ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg.

Before starting the process, you need to prepare a glass vessel with a lid. It mixes water with alcohol, then the jar is sent to the refrigerator to cool for 3 hours. After the specified time, the vessel is removed, and a glass of dried lemon peel is sent to the finished product.

Further, the recipe for preparing vodka provides for its infusion for 6 hours in a freezer or refrigerator. Then the resulting lemon tincture is subject to distillation on the apparatus for obtaining moonshine. The number of additional components can be changed, but for 1 liter of drink it is best to put 4 g of cinnamon, 1 g of nutmeg and cardamom. Then the product is tightly closed again and sent to a warm room for half a day.

It is good to cover the vessel with a woolen blanket or place it in a preheated oven. Then the container for the same time should be placed in a cool room for complete infusion. The resulting product is filtered, for which gauze folded in several layers is used. A completely chilled drink should be tasted and, if necessary, add granulated sugar or glucose to it.

Breeding to the desired degree - poke method

It is based on an understandable principle: they took some water, added moonshine, measured the fortress. Many more? They poured water into another dish, added what was already a little diluted, looked on alcoholometer readings. If necessary, the procedure was repeated until the desired result was achieved.

Dilution table

There is a special table showing how much alcohol and water to take to get the correct proportion. Such tables (most often handwritten) were also used by our grandparents.

Example: to dilute 1 liter. existing 95% alcohol to 40%, 1443 ml of water must be added to it.

Calculators for moonshiners

There are many free moonshiner calculators on the Internet. There are calculators in the form of a small one that you can download to your PC or smartphone. The advantage is that such a calculator can later be used even without internet connection.

Therefore, in areas where there are problems with the Internet (unstable connection, slow operation), it is convenient to use this one. But it is no less convenient to use an online calculator by making a bookmark for yourself.

The formula for diluting moonshine with water

You can try to properly dilute moonshine with water without a table or an online calculator. To do this, use pretty simple formula.

Divide the strength of alcohol that you have by the strength that you need in the end. Multiply the resulting number by the amount of moonshine that you have (in ml). And now subtract the amount of alcohol in ml.

The formula in literal terms looks like this:

A: B x C - C \u003d D

• A - the original fortress of moonshine.
• B is the fortress you need to get.
• C is the amount of alcohol present in ml.
• D is the amount of water to be added in ml.

Suppose A is 80, B is 50, C is 1000. A: B \u003d 1.6 x 1000 \u003d 1600 - 1000 \u003d 600 ml. That is, you need to collect 600 ml of water in a clean dish and pour a liter of your strong moonshine into it.

Thus you will receive desired degree.

It will show you, to the nearest tenth, how much water you need to add to your alcohol.

Mistakes when diluting moonshine with water

If you make a mistake and make the moonshine too low, only re-distillation will help here. Do not forget: for fire safety, dilute the distillation liquid to at least 20 °.

Turbidity and even falling out of flakes can be provoked not only by hard water or improper dilution, but also by the quality of moonshine, in which there is too much. And it's good that they fell out! Several strainings using filter paper, cotton pads or cotton wool - and you have pure moonshine of the desired strength.

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Many people think about how to dilute alcohol. But this question is very interesting. After all, when mixing alcohol and water, the volume of the mixture decreases. It is precisely this “disappearance” of volume that D. Mendeleev studied. It is possible to get high-quality vodka only with a carefully selected ratio of alcohol and water.

How to properly dilute 96% alcohol to get vodka

To make homemade vodka, you will need not only high-quality drinking alcohol, but also soft water. Water should contain a minimum amount of salts. It is best to take spring water to dilute alcohol. But if there is no such water, then you can take tap water, which must be passed through cleaning filters.

1.25 liters of 96% alcohol is poured into a three-liter glass container. 40.0 ml of a 40% glucose solution (available at a pharmacy) and one teaspoon (5.0 ml) of vinegar essence are added to it. After that, water is poured into a container with alcohol to the mark of three liters.

If desired, honey, citric acid and sugar can be added to the resulting vodka, which will not only improve its taste, but also make it softer.

Homemade vodka obtained in this way should be allowed to stand for 72 hours.

How to dilute alcohol with water: getting 40% vodka from 70% alcohol

To obtain good quality 40% vodka from 70% alcohol, purified soft water must be used. In addition, alcohol should be diluted with water in a clear ratio: 100.0 ml of alcohol 70% and 78.0 ml of water.

In addition, ascorbic acid and emollients (sugar, glucose, orange juice) can be added to the resulting mixture of alcohol with water. Do not add baking soda or products rich in oils to the resulting vodka, because. after drinking such alcohol in the morning you will be provided with a severe headache.

After diluting alcohol with water, the resulting mixture must be given time to brew. If this time is not available, then the mixture should be shaken vigorously and be sure to cool before use.

How to dilute alcohol: fast and tasty

Pour 200.0 ml of 96% alcohol into the carafe and add 300.0 ml of water to it. Squeeze the juice of half an orange or lemon into a decanter. Shake the mixture vigorously and refrigerate. To quickly cool the mixture, 100.0 ml of water can be replaced with finely crushed ice prepared from a similar amount of water.

Why do you need to dilute alcohol with water at all? This is mainly done due to the fact that for the preparation of most drinks, 96% is simply not needed. Such a fortress may be needed only for certain tinctures, and then not always. Yes, and to use such alcohol in its pure form is not a good idea.

Proper dilution of alcohol- a guarantee of obtaining a quality product from it in the future. Therefore, this operation must be approached very seriously, although it does not represent anything complicated.

What is needed in order to dilute alcohol at home?

To do this, we need the actual alcohol and pure water. Never use tap water in the kitchen, even if you have boiled it several times. Soft spring or distilled water is ideal, but store-bought water, which is sold in five-liter cans, is also fine.
Remember the three main conditions for the correct dilution of alcohol with water:

• Water must be chilled
• Be sure to add alcohol to the water, and not vice versa
• Diluted alcohol should settle

Let's go directly to the process. First, let's give a specific example, and then give the dilution formula.

In order not to fill your head with numbers and formulas, use ours. You only need to enter the volume of alcohol available, its strength and the strength you want to get. .

In order to obtain a drink with a strength of 40% (vodka) from a liter of alcohol with a strength of 96%, you need to pour this liter of alcohol into 1.4 liters of water.

This operation is performed based on the following formula:

X=P*(N/M-1)

X – this is the amount of water in milliliters that will be needed to obtain a solution of the desired strength

P – is the volume of alcohol we have in milliliters

N – this is the strength of the available alcohol, which we dilute

M – this is the fortress we want to get

See how we got the figure 1.4 liters (1400 milliliters) using this formula in the example above:

We have multiplied 1000 (the volume of alcohol we have in ml) by the number obtained by subtracting one (1) from the result of dividing 96 (the strength of the alcohol we have) by 40 (the strength we want to get):

1400=1000*(96/40-1)

Another example: in order to get a drink with a strength of 50% from a liter of alcohol with a strength of 96%, you need to pour this liter of alcohol into 920 milliliters of water:

920=1000*(96/50-1)

However, you may have alcohol with a strength not of 96%, but lower, then the above formula will not work. In this case, it will help you alcohol dilution table - Fertman table, which is located below, or already mentioned.

In this table of alcohol dilutions, the data are in milliliters and are based on a dilution of 100 milliliters of alcohol.

Example: if we have alcohol with a strength of 80% and we want to get a solution with a strength of 30%, then we must dilute 100 ml of 80% alcohol with 171.1 ml of water. Again, do not forget that we pour alcohol into water, but not vice versa.

By the way, using this table, you can dilute not only alcohol, but also other alcoholic beverages, if you need to reduce their degree.

Math is over. The last, but no less important, moment remains. It will be about settling of dilute alcohol.

After dilution, the finished solution should stand for about a week. This is the most optimal time. But if you need it very urgently, then it can be used at least two days later. The container should be in a dark place at a temperature of at least 5 degrees Celsius above zero.

In addition, pour the diluted solution into the container to the top - right up to the neck. The smaller the area of ​​​​contact between liquid and oxygen, the less likely it is for an oxidation reaction, in which acetic acid can be formed, which we do not need at all.

As you can see, it is not at all difficult to properly dilute alcohol with water in your kitchen. If this article was useful to you, please share a link to it on social networks.

Why dilute alcohol? Usually this process occurs in the distillery industry or home preparation of alcoholic beverages. Such a solution can serve as the basis for various kinds of liqueurs and tinctures. It is worth remembering that it is necessary to follow a number of rules for the correct preparation of such a solution. Many are interested in the question Why can't you pour water into alcohol?

Dilution of alcohol with water

Only people who properly dilute alcohol receive high-quality raw materials for the preparation of alcoholic beverages. Such manipulations are quite serious, but they are not something particularly complicated.

We take the necessary ingredients: alcohol 96% strength and water. It is better to use bottled rather than draw water from the tap. Boiled water in a kettle will not work either. The best option would be to purchase natural purified water in the store.

It should be cooled and poured in a thin stream into its alcohol. Why can't it be the other way around? If you pour water into alcohol, then its strength decreases from 96% to 40%, greatly heating the resulting solution, and it, in turn, releases harmful and toxic substances. After adding alcohol, the solution must be defended for a week.

If the resulting drink needs to be used quickly, then this can be done no earlier than in a couple of days. The bottle with dissolved alcohol is removed in a dark place, first it should be poured to the very neck so that the alcohol does not oxidize. If you pour water into diluted alcohol, then it will lose its transparency, become cloudy, and this procedure will give the drink not a vodka, but an alcohol smell.

The order of dissolution of alcohol in the language of chemists

If you are at least a little familiar with practical chemistry, you should remember that the dissolved component is poured into the solvent. This algorithm of actions allows you to reduce heat generation. After all, acids in solution are always poured into water. Elements such as lithium or potassium are also thrown into the water.

If water is added to a bottle with alcohol, then the solution will heat up very much, because alcohol is the strongest oxidizing agent. Alcohol decomposing into ions forms peroxide, carbonic, acetic acid and various poisons that cause a hangover.

The only correct dissolution can be the infusion of water into alcohol in a thin stream. Additionally, the container must be shaken periodically. So it is easier for the elements of the solution to interact, and the content of harmful impurities in dissolved alcohol is an order of magnitude lower than in alcohol dissolved according to a different algorithm.

In any case, the resulting liquid should be defended, set aside in a cold place, so that the interacting components calm down, and the resulting gases leave the composition of the dissolved alcohol-containing drink.