Fresh Peach Moonshine Recipe - Souffle Bombay

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This fresh Homemade Peach Moonshine recipe always get everyone talking! It is a perfect summer boozy treat! I am know in my circles for making various flavors of homemade moonshine recipes as well as other fun cocktail recipes, before I ever started this food blog.

If you follow me on this site or social media, you know that I enjoy cocktails, wine and making interesting libations like my very popular Apple Pie Moonshine, Chocolate Moonshine, Watermelon Lime Moonshine, Bourbon Slush and more. While my husband enjoys beer, bourbon, scotch, whiskey, and gin. Between us, I think we have all the bases covered, lol!

I love lots of fresh fruit, however, once peach season starts, I only have eyes for them! After I enjoyed a few perfectly ripe peaches a couple weeks ago (and yes the juice was dribbling down my chin and arms...the best), I decided to tinker with making a Fresh Peach Moonshine Recipe. And boy did it turn out delicious!

I bought a bushel of fresh peaches from a New Jersey farmer and got down to business. I let the peach moonshine sit for a week and then decided to strain out all of the pulp, which in my opinion is the best drinking experience.

Table of Contents

• This moonshine recipe is flexible
• Ingredients needed
• Tips when making Peach Moonshine
• Its really simple to make homemade flavored moonshines using grain alcohol (Everclear) as the base. I keep all my moonshines after I make them in the freezer since we love them ice cold and that pretty much keeps them indefinitely (even though they never last long). They never freeze fully due to the alcohol.
• Can I freeze Homemade Moonshine?
• How to serve
• Fresh Peach Moonshine Recipe

This moonshine recipe is flexible

• You can control just how peachy you make this as well as how strong. Play around with it.
• Like I always say taste and adjust. If it's too strong, add water. Too weak add more of one of the alcohols.

If you are looking for something fun to make that has a kick! Try making a batch of this Fresh Peach Moonshine Recipe. I served it in disposable shot glasses. Just tell everyone to hold on to their glass, lol! Because the will most likely want more!

Ingredients needed

• Water
• Brown Sugar
• Cinnamon Sticks
• Peaches (fresh or frozen)
• Peach Schnapps
• Everclear (grain alcohol)
• Peach juice (I have used a variety of peach juice's and nectars over the years, see notes in the recipe card below)

Tips when making Peach Moonshine

• Always let your mixture cool down before adding the alcohol. You don't want any of the alcohol to burn off.
• After it sits for a night in the fridge, taste and adjust if you feel you want it stronger or weaker.
• To make it stronger, add more Everclear.
• If you want it less potent, add more juice.
• If it's not sweet enough, add in some extra simple syrup. or Peach Schnapps.
• You can enjoy this as soon as its cold, you don't have to wait a week.
• I keep my homemade moonshine in the freezer so its ICE COLD. See notes.
• Outside of peach season I uses a bag of frozen sliced peaches. It's just so easy and the frozen peaches hold up really well.
• I usually place 5 slices or so into each jar and we eat them when the jar is empty YUM!!!
• Just use new wide mouth jars that have never been used for canning and leave an inch or so head space.
• I love eating the peaches right from the jar after its empty. That's best within a few days.

Its really simple to make homemade flavored moonshines using grain alcohol (Everclear) as the base. I keep all my moonshines after I make them in the freezer since we love them ice cold and that pretty much keeps them indefinitely (even though they never last long). They never freeze fully due to the alcohol.

Can I freeze Homemade Moonshine?

• Only use quality Mason jars. I typically use 32oz wide mouth Ball Mason Jars which you can grab at the grocery store or wherever you shop. A 12 jar pack at Walmart is typically under $15.
• Use jars that have not been used before for canning.
• Always leave about an inch if headspace (meaning don't fill the jar to the top). Liquids expand as they freeze/partially freeze.
• This will either stay liquid, turn slushy or freeze based of of the amount of alcohol you use and what proof. If it does mostly freeze, it will that very quickly once removed.

This peach moonshine and all of the flavors of moonshine I make all taste best ice ice cold in my opinion.

How to serve

• Serve ice ice cold in small shot glasses
• Pour over ice as a drink
• Mix over ice with club soda or seltzer

If you enjoy making homemade moonshines and other fun boozy recipes for parties and food gifts, check out my Apple Pie Moonshine (one of the most popular recipes on Soufflé Bombay. An oldie but a goodie! I call it "A party IN a jar!"

ALSO, I KNOW this is not moonshine from a still in the woods or backyard. Many consider moonshine ONLY that which is made that way and that taxes are not paid on.

Well, my view is that when one does NOT have a still and is not a moonshiner we improvise! We make something delicious and fun ourselves the only way we can. AND guess what?? Thousands of people that have had my moonshine recipes would agree! Not that I would mind a taste of the real thing...Just sayin'

Cheers! XO Colleen

Moonshine Recipes you will LOVE!

• Watermelon Moonshine Recipe
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Recipe originally published July, 2018. Some text updates were made September, 2020.

Colleen Kennedy is the author of 3 cookbooks and has appeared on QVC and other shows inspiring home cooks of all levels. She has a popular TikTok channel @ColleensCooking with hundreds of short recipe videos. Colleen lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and kids, she started the food blog, Soufflé Bombay in 2009. Read more about her here.

Fresh Peach Moonshine Recipe

Colleen Kennedy Capture the joy of peach season in this Peach Moonshine recipe. Delicious and makes a great food gift! Homemade moonshine recipe. 4.89 from 9 votes Print Recipe Pin Recipe Prep Time 10 minutes minsCook Time 12 minutes minsTotal Time 22 minutes mins Course CocktailCuisine American Servings 22 servingsCalories 110 kcal

Ingredients 1x2x3x

• 4 cups of water
• 1 ¼ cups brown sugar or sugar in the raw you can also use white sugar DEPENDING on the juice you use and its sugar content, reduce sugar if it is sweet.
• 4 cups or more to taste Peach juice
• 4 large peaches or a bag of frozen sliced peaches each cut into six slices
• 2 cinnamon sticks (optional) if you want a kick of cinnamon You can add in some vanilla as well. Either or or both.
• ¾ cups Peach Schnapps
• 1 ¼ cups Everclear or more to taste. Here in PA I can get 151, however some of you may be able to get the 190 so taste and adjust

Instructions

• In a medium pot, combine water, sugar, peach slices, juice (and cinnamon sticks if adding). Bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat and allow to simmer for 5 minutes.
• Remove from heat and allow to sit until cooled to room temperature.
• Pull out the cinnamon sticks.
• If you want this totally smooth with no fruit, strain liquid into a large jar or container (with lid), pressing on solids to get every bit of liquid. OR place a some of the peaches in your jars (or large container) and pour in the liquid)
• Add in the Peach Schnapps and Everclear
• Stir or shake to combine.
• Refrigerate for a day, then taste and adjust. Store in your freezer if not using within a couple of days. See notes about freezing.
• Taste and adjust to your liking by adding more Everclear or Schnapps OR if you feel its too strong, add in ¼ cup of water or juice (or more) until it's to your liking.
• Keeps in your fridge for up to 2 weeks. However before serving place it in your freezer (if it wasn't already there) for ice cold moonshine, YUM!!

Notes

I have used peach nectar and various peach juices like Goya, Ceres. My favorite is a smooth peach juice. Simply Peach is delicious when added to this and seems to be the favorite version of this with the people who have had it at various BBQ's. If you can't find fresh peach juice. You could substitute white grape juice (if you HAVE to, lol).

Nutrition

Serving: 4ozCalories: 110kcalCarbohydrates: 16gProtein: 0.3gFat: 0.1gSaturated Fat: 0.01gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.02gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.02gSodium: 6mgPotassium: 38mgFiber: 1gSugar: 15gVitamin A: 90IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 7mgIron: 0.2mg Keyword Homemade Moonshine, How To Make Flavored Moonshine, Peach Moonshine Recipe Follow me on Tik Tok for 1 minute videos 4834 shares

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