How long do you leave your elderflower to infuse?

[gardendancer]

Hi all.
am trying my hand at making some elderflower liqueur, and I've been reading really different infusions times, anything from 2 days to a month of leaving the flowers in the Vodka? How long do you leave yours for?

[ohbeary]

In Vodka, a month is fine, infusing for syrup 24 hrs will do.

[Mikey]

Just make sure the syrup is cold or it'll kill the natural yeasts.

[ohbeary]

Mikey, for an infused syrup, you want to kill any wild yeast, for Elderflower wine infusing in a hot syrup you also want to kill any wild yeast! so that you can add your yeast of choice, mine is nearly always EC1118/Champagne Yeast for Elderflower..

[Alison]

Mikey, for an infused syrup, you want to kill any wild yeast, for Elderflower wine infusing in a hot syrup you also want to kill any wild yeast! so that you can add your yeast of choice, mine is nearly always EC1118/Champagne Yeast for Elderflower..

I use the natural yeasts for my elderflower "champagne" but obviously want to kill them for things like cordial.


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[gardendancer]

Thank you all for the advice. The flowers came out of the cordial after 24 hours this morning, and of 2.5 litres I'm left with only 1 litre as I had guests and they all insisted on taking a little bottle home , so more will be made.