How to make wine at home
In conditions of too rich a crop andthe limited space of a cellar for storage of preparations for the winter (jam, jams, juices) in front of a gardener each autumn raises an unchanging question - and what else would be done to preserve the harvest. In this case, you can use surpluses of apples or plums to make tasty home-made wine, which by the way will have to be on the festive table, and to treat suddenly unexpected guests. How to make wine? That's what we are now and will talk in detail.
It will be useful for you to know that the wine that youcook yourself, it will be much more useful than what is sold in stores, because the home product is devoid of all kinds of chemical additives, flavors, ethyl alcohol - the drink will contain only what has grown in your garden.
How to make wine from grapes
You will need grapes of wine varieties (muscat,isabella, cabernet). Separate berries from the bunch, carefully scrape to remove the rotten and corrupted grapes. Wash grapes is recommended only if there is dust on it, if it is not there - then leave it, because on the skin of the berries there are bacteria favorable for the fermentation process.
Crush the berries with a crush, press orjuicers. The juice, which turned out to be poured into an enamel container, using a colander. For a few days, leave the liquid infused at a temperature of about 28 degrees. When you see that the juice has gone up, and the cake has settled down to the bottom, folding the gauze into several layers, strain the juice and pour it over 10- or 20-liter bottles. At the same time, fill each vessel only with 2/3.
Bottles are clogged with plastic stoppers, in eachfrom which it is necessary to make a hole and insert into it a long vinyl tube. Put the other end of the tube into a bottle with plain water. This design allows you to leave the wine carbon dioxide and not get into the drink oxygen. Instead of a lid, you can use a medical rubber glove.
Leave the juice bottles wandering for a month atat room temperature. After the due date, strain the wine to remove the precipitate. Pour the drink on standard bottles (0.5-1l), plug up the cork and put it in the cellar for 3-4 months. As a result, you get a fine dry homemade wine, whose strength will not be more than 5 degrees.
How to make apple wine
Wash apples (2 kg) and cut into small pieces. Put the fruit in an enamel pot. Pour in water (2l), add ground cinnamon (one tablespoon) and cook until soft apples. Strain the broth through a strainer and leave to wander at room temperature. After the fermentation, strain the wine, add the sugar (0.5 kg) and leave for secondary fermentation. Now, twice or thrice a day, stir the drink with a wooden stick. After 14-21 days, when the wine becomes light, strain it to get rid of the sediment, and pour into bottles.
How to make apple dessert wine
From apples and pears separately with a juiceror press make juice. In the container, pour apple juice (10.8 l) and pear juice (1.2 l), add sugar (1kg) and a large raisin (200g), cut into pieces. Leave to wander for 2-3 weeks, then pour out the bottles of wine, clog and put in storage in the cellar.
How to make plum wine
Select only ripe plums, but do not wash them(as well as in the case of grapes). Make plum juice with a press or in a juicer. For each kilogram of juice and sinks, water (0.5 l) and sugar (100 g) should be added. Mix everything in a container and put it in a warm place to start wandering. After a few days, separate the juice from the cake.
Prepare the leaven from warm water (300ml),unwashed raisins (200 g) and sugar (50 g). Put to roam. After 3-4 days, the leaven will be ready. Now it should be poured into a vessel with a wort and closed on a water seal (cork made of cotton with a flexible tube, the second end of which is lowered into a bottle of water). Remove the bottle with the future wine in a dark and warm place. Regularly check how the fermentation is proceeding, whether the water seal is sealed. When the wine starts to lighten up, and the bubbles cease to stand out, drain the beverage from the sludge with a thin hose. Pour into a new bottle to the neck, plug with a cotton stopper and put in the cellar for 24 hours. After this time, replace the cotton wool with a stopper, which should be filled with paraffin. In a horizontal position, a bottle of wine is kept in the cellar for another month or three, so that the drink is finally ready.
Now that you know how to make wine fromgrapes, plums and apples, you can continue to experiment, for example, with cherries, pears, currants, gooseberries and other berries. Believe me, it will not be less delicious.
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