The production of domestic strong drinks-distillates for own consumption is now permitted by law in the Russian Federation and in most of the post-Soviet space. In the legal sale for quite "democratic" prices, you can find standard and comfortable home distillers of various designs (that is, moonshine machines). The best designs of the distillers are made of copper, of course, they need regular maintenance, but the result is good too. Stainless steel appliances are also quite suitable. Raw materials for moonshine use a variety of things - fruits, vegetables, grains, sugar, etc.
This homemade cognac can be prepared only from wine vodka we 'll tell you how to do it.
We use only grapes for cognac, from other fruits we will get fruit brandy (like calvados, etc.), from cereal distillates you can make a kind of whiskey, from potatoes - aquavit.
The best recipe for making homemade cognac from moonshine
Ingredients:
- grapes (you can be listless);
- sugar - at the rate of 200 g per 10 liters of wort;
- water - 1 liter per 10 liters of juice.
Preparation
Grapes can be bought wholesale, including podvyavshy, substandard, you will be grateful, and will come out at a discount. Better light varieties.
We need to get juice from grapes in any convenient way (only not in the juice processor, heat treatment is unacceptable). The remaining oil cake is poured with a small amount of water and squeezed again. Mix the grape juice with the liquid obtained after washing and the second pressing. We add sugar, pour the must into the bottle, leaving a little space, during the fermentation, its volume will increase. Very convenient bottles of 10 liters and 25 liters (technical). Within 3 days, alcoholic fermentation will begin itself, the wort begins to foam, as soon as this happens, we must install a "water seal" on the bottle (acetic fermentation will begin without this device). After 40 days at a room temperature of 12-17 degrees, the wine is ready. If the bottles stand warm, alcohol fermentation passes and a little faster (30 days). The completion of the fermentation process can be judged by a significant reduction in gas evolution through the water shutter tube, placed in a container with water.
Distillation
We distill the wine, selecting 1 and 4 parts of distillate in a separate container (then these parts are distilled again). We combine 2 and 3 parts of the distillation with the product of the second distillation. We have obtained a quality wine distillate - a young brandy spirit with hints of smell and taste of the raw materials, the strength can vary on average from 40 to 60%. You can clean this raw material with activated charcoal and filter. Cleaning with the addition of potassium permanganate or milk is also possible. In any case, after precipitation, the purified product should be carefully filtered out with a tube (like gasoline). Now you can dilute the purified young brandy spirit with drinking water or a pharmacy solution of glucose up to 40% of the strength. To measure, we use an alcoholometer (sold in hardware stores).
Infusion
In the best case, pour the distillate into a clean new small oak barrel and insist for at least 2 months (and better, of course, at least 3 years). In a simplified version, you can pour the wine distillate in
Sometimes it is necessary to prepare strong home beverages for a certain event and time is not enough. For this, we will tell you how to make cognac from moonshine quickly.
To make homemade cognac from wine vodka quickly, we insist it in ukuporennyh glass bottles on oak shavings. A week is enough. When adding sawdust, you can catch in 3-5 days, but you will have to re-filter using good filters.