Peach moonshine cocktails are one of our favorite uses for fresh peaches in the summer. A good peach moonshine cocktail is sweet, strong, and downright delicious!
We’re sharing our favorite peach moonshine cocktail recipes so you can try something new and add new cocktails to your drink rotation.
Key Takeaways
- When you’re making these cocktails, you can use premade or homemade moonshine.
- Brown sugar is the go-to for most peach moonshine recipes, but white sugar or molasses can be used in a pinch.
- Have fun with your peach moonshine drinks! Don’t be afraid to try new mixers and different ratios to create customized peach cocktails.
How to Get Peach Moonshine for Your Cocktail
There are two ways to get peach moonshine for making cocktails. You can either make it yourself or buy it pre-made. We tend to gravitate towards premade options like Ole Smoky Peach Moonshine because it’s convenient!
You can find it at almost any liquor store, and it’s ready to drink; no prep time or waiting period is required.
Different brands have different recipes, so don’t expect every brand to taste the same.
One of the biggest differences is the proof of the moonshine. We’ve found premade options ranging from 40 to 90 proof!
If you prefer to stay busy in the kitchen, plenty of tasty peach moonshine recipes are online! Most call for similar ingredients like brown sugar, cinnamon sticks, and peach schnapps. You’ll also need grain alcohol, such as Everclear.
Peach juice or white grape peach juice are commonly used too. Almost any peach moonshine recipe can be made with fresh or canned peaches, so you can make it any time of year.
Moonshine making is a multi-step process where you combine ingredients on a stovetop, prepare jars, and add the moonshine to the jars, where it has to sit for a period of time before it’s ready to drink.
Flavored moonshines can easily be altered to match your taste buds, so the more you make it, the better it will be!
We recommend starting with small batches until you perfect your recipe.
5 Peachy Moonshine Cocktails with a Kick
Peach Lemonade Sangria
Sangria and lemonade are two of our go-to refreshing drink choices in the summertime, so combining them is a no-brainer! Adding the flavor of the freshest peaches makes this lemonade sangria impossible to resist.
Dry white wine, peach moonshine, lemonade concentrate, lemon-lime soda, and sugar are combined in a pitcher before garnishing with fresh raspberries and peach slices. If you want to make this recipe more bubbly, we love using sparkling wine instead of traditional white wine!
Cherry Peach Moonshine Cocktail
by Mooshu Jenne
This simple recipe combines fresh peaches with another in-season fruit, Rainier cherries. Fresh peaches are muddled with pitted cherries and peach moonshine in a cocktail shaker first. This step brings the flavors out of the fresh fruit to bring more sweetness to the drink.
Next, the mixture is shaken with vanilla simple syrup and ice before pouring into a cocktail glass.
If you want to save yourself a step, you can easily skip the cocktail shaker and make this drink in the glass. Just don’t forget to give it a good stir before serving.
Meyer Lemon Shrub Drink
This cocktail takes a little extra work because you have to first prepare a Meyer Lemon Shrub. Thankfully, it’s not hard! The cocktail itself is made with the Meyer Lemon Shrub, peach moonshine, and vodka.
Leave a little room in the glass to the top with club soda, and garnish with a fresh lemon slice.
Once you have Meyer Lemon Shrub prepared, the cocktail comes together quickly. The bright lemon flavors taste good on a hot day when sipped by a pool, at a party, or on your front porch.
Basil Peach Moonshine Cocktail
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again, Basil is one of the best ways to elevate your drinks with fresh herbal flavor!
This delicious cocktail begins with muddling peach slices, basil leaves, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Moonshine is then added, shaken with ice, and you’re done!
The recipe calls for two parts regular moonshine and one part peach-flavored, but we like to do it with all peach. It creates a stronger peach essence which plays well with the fresh basil leaves for a tasty drink that goes down smooth.
Peach Cobbler Moonshine
by Call Me PMc
This isn’t technically a cocktail recipe, but the taste is good enough to be sipped as-is. The peach pie moonshine is made using white grape peach juice, fresh or canned peaches, brown sugar, cinnamon sticks, and peach schnapps.
The final ingredient can be changed depending on how strong you want your moonshine to be. Everclear will produce the strongest alcohol content, but whiskey makes for more complex flavors.
We highly recommend using bourbon! If you don’t have Everclear, vodka produces a similar taste with a lower alcohol content.
FAQs
What is good to mix moonshine with?
Moonshine is incredibly versatile. It can be mixed with sweet tea, pineapple juice, lemonade, beer, orange juice, cranberry juice, and more! For a quick and simple mixer with peach moonshine, try apple cider or Simply peach juice when you don’t want to make a cocktail.
How do you use moonshine peaches?
Eat them! Moonshine peaches have absorbed some of the booze and have alcoholic content too. You can eat the sweet peaches straight from the jar, blend them into a slushy with ice, or add them on top of your favorite vanilla ice cream.
Do you mix flavored moonshine with anything?
Flavored moonshine can be enjoyed straight, or you can mix it. Try to find mixers with flavors that will complement the flavor. They can use alcoholic mixers or non-alcoholic mixers to tone down the flavor. For instance, apple pie moonshine goes great with caramel vodka or apple cider!
What proof is peach moonshine?
It depends on how it is made. Ole Smoky Peach brand is 40 proof, but Climax Moonshine in the Peach Lightening flavor is 90 proof. Moonshine made with grain alcohol is a higher proof than that made with whiskey or vodka.
Peach Moonshine Cocktails
- Peach Lemonade Sangria
- Cherry Peach Moonshine Cocktail
- Meyer Lemon Shrub Drink
- Basil Peach Moonshine Cocktail
- Peach Cobbler Moonshine
