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Strawberry wine at home a simple recipe

Strawberry is a fragrant and delicious berry. It is enjoyed fresh, as well as harvested for future use in the form of compotes, preserves, jams and juices. Also, these wonderful berries can be used to make aromatic homemade wine. From this article, we will learn how to make strawberry wine at home.

The subtleties of making homemade strawberry wine

It should be noted right away that strawberries are not the best base for making homemade wine. The drink does not store well enough and is prone to souring. Strawberry juice is poorly clarified and difficult to squeeze out, berries are reluctant to give juice. Therefore, if winemaking is a new area of ​​activity for you, then it is better to practice first on grapes, and then take it for a capricious strawberry.

Strawberries cannot be used to make dry wine, but they make a wonderful semi-sweet drink, reminiscent of liqueur.

Homemade strawberry wine should be prepared only from ripe fully colored berries, unripe fruits will not work.

The strength of the drink will depend on the amount of sugar added to the wort. However, it should be borne in mind that the natural sugar content in strawberries is quite high and when making wine with it, you should not overdo it. Excess sugar acts as a preservative and the wort may stop fermenting.

Raw materials for wine are usually not washed. All berries contain natural wild yeast, which is responsible for fermentation when homemade wine is made. But you still have to wash the strawberries. The fact is that during the growing season, it comes into contact with the soil, and we don't need dirt in wine. You can replace natural yeast with regular raisins, or you can make a homemade wine starter from strawberries.

Starter culture for strawberry wine

The sourdough has a short shelf life - no more than 10 days, so prepare it shortly before you are going to put the wort.

The starter culture contains the following ingredients:


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For sourdough, you need to collect berries that have not come into contact with the ground. Press the unwashed berries with a wooden pestle until puree. Pour the strawberry puree into a plastic bottle and add sugar and water. The mixture is thoroughly shaken and closed with a cotton plug. The starter culture should be placed in a dark place, the temperature should be 20-24 ° C. After 4 days, the berries will begin to ferment. They are filtered through cheesecloth, and the drained liquid is added to the wort. To prepare dessert strawberry wine, you need 200-300 ml of sourdough per 10 liters of wort.

Making Strawberry Wine

Have to take:

  • Strawberries - a kilogram.
  • Water - liter.
  • Sugar - 2 cups (waist-deep).
  • Raisins are a handful.

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Prepare a container for making homemade strawberry wine and a water trap. We take the amount of ingredients depending on the amount of berries, proportionally increasing them in accordance with the recipe.

We sort out the berries, removing the leaves of the stalk and spoiled specimens. Wash the strawberries under cool water and put them in a colander to glass the water.

Now the berries need to be mashed, for this we take a plastic bowl or an enamel pan, knead the berries with a wooden pestle, it is better not to use metal objects for these purposes.

Dissolve sugar in warm water and combine with strawberry pulp. Now pour the wine must into the fermentation tank and add the raisins. If you have prepared a wine starter in advance. You can add it by calculating the proportions that we described above. The container is only filled up to 2/3 of the total volume so that there is enough room for fermentation. The wort is thoroughly shaken, a water seal is installed on the bottle, and the raw material is sent to a warm place. The pulp should ferment actively for 3-5 days, the temperature in the room is 22-24 C °.

After this time, the liquid is drained through cheesecloth into a clean bottle, the pulp is squeezed out well.

We put the water seal on the bottle again and send the wine to ferment in a cool place, at high temperatures strawberry wine can turn into vinegar and it will not be possible to save it. After 20-40 days, a sediment forms at the bottom, which is the waste products of wine yeast, and the wine will become much lighter. This indicates that the fermentation cycle is over and the drink is ready.

We drain the wine and put it in the basement, tightly sealed. After 4 weeks, a precipitate forms in the wine again and the procedure must be repeated. After a month of storage in the cellar, the homemade strawberry wine will be ready for tasting.

Fortified strawberry wine

Ingredients:


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Strawberries are prepared for wine in the same way as in the previous recipe. Sugar and hot water are added to the strawberry puree. The wort should ferment under a water seal for 5-7 days. Then the strained wine is poured into a clean bottle and vodka is added. It is important to know that immediately after adding vodka, the fermentation process stops, so if the wine was not fermenting very actively, let it stand a little longer.

Wine diluted with vodka should be infused for a week in a cool place. Then it can be bottled and put into the cellar. After 2 weeks, homemade fortified strawberry wine can be drunk.

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