Glühwein Recipe
The perfect cozy drink for cold nights! It will warm you up from the inside-out, and make your home smell amazing.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
- Category: cocktails
- Method: boiling
- Cuisine: german
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 (750 milliliter) bottle red wine— this is a great use of a cheaper wine, or one that you were disappointed with!
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 cup honey or sugar
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 organic orange
- 10 whole cloves
- Orange liqueur, Brandy or Rum— all optional
Instructions
- Pour the water into a saucepan over medium heat, and bring to a boil. Add the honey.
- Poke the cloves into the skin of the orange, slice into halves, and squeeze some of the juice into the water, and throw in the clove-studded peels. Add the cinnamon, and let this mixture simmer and reduce until it begins to thicken. Your house will smell amazing.
- Pour the wine in, and heat very gently, until it begins steaming. Don’t boil the wine! Remove the orange peels and cinnamon stick.
- Serve in mugs, adding a shot of the orange liqueur, brandy or rum, if you need a little extra heat. I always ordered mine “mit einem Schuss Brandy.”
- Enjoy the coziness that will inevitably creep all the way down to your toes.
Keywords: gluhwein, mulled wine, cocktails, party
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