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Strawberry wine - Cooking recipes at home

In June, the spread is one of the first summer berries - strawberries. Bright, fragrant, juicy, fresh - she gives so much joy! Each hostess seeks the fact that it is not yet eaten by cooking jam or compote for the winter to enjoy the summer part in the cold gray days. But the authentic aroma and the taste of this berry in such billets can not be transferred. Frozen berry after defrosting also disappoints. But the strawberry wine retains the aroma of strawberries to the fullest.

By the way, make it at home is quite simple. At first, many may have thoughts: "How is it? Strawberry and wine? " But believe me when after six months you put on a glass of quite a bit of this wonderful drink, thoughts will be completely different. After all, after a couple of minutes, a breathtaking strawberry fragrance fills everything around, you remember your doubts and involuntarily smile, because they were in vain.

It is not necessary to make wine from the best strawberries, it will come and small or slightly wildly, the main thing is to be ripe. A retained or rotten berry is not suitable, it can completely spoil the whole game of wine, attaching unpleasant shades to taste, which will be impossible. It is not easy to get juice from strawberry, so many are added to the wort water, although it is optional. But without sugar, it will not be possible to do.

Simple recipe without water

To prepare wine berries, it is desirable not to wash. Wild yeast, living on their skin, will participate in fermentation. If required, strawberries can be slightly rinsed with clean water, still this berry grows close to Earth.

Ingredients:

  • 8 kilograms of strawberries (any varieties);
  • 1 kilogram sugar.

Cooking.

The berries and purified from the fruits of the berries are pouring into an enameled pelvis, to stretch with their hands to a porridge state and mix with sugar. Then the sweet strawberry mass is shifted into a declined jar and cover the neck of gauze. Leave for three days in a warm place, not forgetting to periodically shake.

During this time, at the top of the bank, a layer of the pop-up mezgi is formed, the juice will remain down. It's time to get to the filtering. To do this, it is necessary to make gauze in a few layers and merge thigh over it to another bank, then squeeze the cake. Vessel close the lid with the hydraulic and put in a cool place. You can use a self-made tube with a tube immersed in the floor liter jar with water.

After 30-50 days, the fermentation will stop, the wine will breathe, a sedimentary layer is formed at the bottom of the bank. Taking advantage of a thin hose, you need to merge a drink with a precipitate into a clean glass container. To withstand under water shutter for about a week, after which it is to pour into bottles, block them and put them in a basement for storage. The fortress of finished wine can reach 16-18 degrees.

Recipe with raisins

Using the washa berries of strawberries, you can get rid of the earthlings in the finished drink. However, it is necessary to take into account that on the surface of strawberries after careful washing there is no natural yeast. Therefore, for normal fermentation, a small amount of non-raisin should be added.

Ingredients:

  • 3 kilograms of berries;
  • 2 kilograms of sugar;
  • 100 grams of raisin;
  • 3 liters of water.

Production.

Strawberry to go through, remove the fruits, wash. Take her hands to the state of mashed. Put an enameled bucket or a saucepan with water on the stove. Capacity should be selected, taking into account the stock of the volume for foam and carbon dioxide, which will be formed during fermentation.

When water warms up to 30 ° C, add a kilogram of sugar to it and interfere until complete dissolution. Capacity remove from the stove. In sugar syrup add strawberry mass and raisins, after which everything is thoroughly mixed. Suid cover the lid or gauze to protect against flies, and leave in warm room for a week.

If in a few hours (maximum day) foam formed, heard hiss and acidic shades appeared in the smell, it means everything goes according to plan - fermentation began. Several times a day, it is necessary to mix it with a wooden shovel or a clean hand, otherwise it will score, and a dense layer of the ebony (strawberry pulp) moldy.

Then you need to fold the gauze into several layers and strain through it juice. Squeeze cake. Pouring juice to the fermentation container, leaving free at least ¼ part of its volume. Add 0.5 kg of sugar there. After carefully mixing the contents of the container, install the hydrotherap or rubber glove with a punctured finger on it. Capacity should stand in a warm room.

Five days later, to select a glass of wort and dissolve in it 250 grams of sugar, after which, pour back and stir. Another five days on the same scheme add the rest of sugar. Friction will end in 1-2 months. The young wine will light up, the sediment shakes, the selection of bubbles will stop (the glove will fall). If after 50 days the fermentation does not quiet to avoid bitterness, the wine is better to accurately merge and again put under water shutter.

Fully overlooked strawberry wine to merge through the tube (from the dropper) from the sediment, to taste, at will still sweeten. To withstand in the basement at a temperature of 5-15 ° C under the hydropitum for another 2-3 months, after the ripening it will become tastier. As the sediment accumulates the wine needs to filter. If the sediment does not appear anymore, it is ready.

For the drink better stored in it, you can add vodka or diluted ethyl alcohol, but not more than 15% of the total volume. If it must be borne in mind that it will spoil the smell and the taste of wine. The finished product can be poured on the bottle, better under the neck, and tightly clog the corks. The fortress of wine prepared with the addition of water does not exceed 10-12 degrees, and the yield is 2/3 from the initial volume of the wort.

Make homemade wine from strawberries is easy if you comply with the recipe and cooking technology. Thanks to the sweet taste, bright thick aroma and saturated deep color. This magnificent drink is superior to factory counterparts. The shelf life of the strawberry wine is small, just a couple of years, but, as practice shows, it is drunk significantly earlier.