Admirers of black cherry can probably be listed on the fingers, since very few people pay attention to this nondescript berry and wants to fight its tart and sour taste in the billets. About the intricacies of making wine from black chokeberry at home, we will tell you in detail in the following recipes.
Homemade wine from chokeberry - recipe
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 1 part;
- sugar - 0,25 parts;
- water.
Preparation
Basic home wine is prepared without a specific recipe. On average, for a kilo of fruit rowan take about half a glass of sugar or more, depending on what kind of wine you intend to get in the end. Please note that the black cherry is not suitable for making dry wine because of its low sugar content and astringency.
Before you make a wine from aronia, pick the berries to prevent the rotten raw material from getting into the base of the drink. Choose the suitable dishes in which the fermentation will take place. Such dishes should be made of stainless steel, food plastic or glass, as well as any enamelled capacity without scratches and chips.
The transferred berries are not mine, so as not to wash off all microorganisms necessary for the fermentation of the drink. Do not worry, all possible contaminations will go away during wine filtration. Spill the black cherry in the prepared container and mash the berries well, you can directly with your hands or pestle, or you can use a blender. Sweeten the finished berry puree, mix it to dissolve all the crystals and send the mash into the heat for a week, while not forgetting about the daily mixing to avoid the formation of mold on the surface.
At the next stage of preparation of wine from chokeberry, the pulp must be filtered by transferring berry gruel onto a sieve and squeezing it well with a pistil. Pour the juice into a jar and send it to ferment in the heat under the bolt, and the remainders of the pulp fill with about a liter of water and pour a glass of sugar (the proportion on the mash from 10 kg of berries). After a week of secondary fermentation, the pulp is squeezed again, the foam is removed from the surface of the juice under the hydraulic seal and the two solutions are combined together. The resulting mixture is again left under the hydraulic seal until the end of fermentation. After fermentation, the wine is carefully drained from the precipitate. Young wine can be tried, but it is better to pour it on bottles and pre-insist at least a month - its taste will noticeably improve.
Recipe for making home-made wine from chokeberry
At first, home winemakers want to be safe and make sure that wine will actively wander. Provide a fermentation can special wine yeast, but if you do not have them at hand, then the usual unwashed raisins will do.
Ingredients:
- chokeberry - 4,7 kg;
- sugar - 1,9 kg;
- water 980 ml;
- raisins - 4.8 kg.
Preparation
Before making wine from aronia, lay the berries in the heat (you can in the sun) to dry, for about half a day. Dried berries in the glass or enameled pottery in any convenient way, mix with half the sugar and raisins, and then leave the mashed potatoes in the heat for a week, mixing every day.
After the time allotted, filter the juice, squeeze the mash, and then pour in warm water and mix with the remaining sugar. Juice and mash, leave the ferment for another week. From the pulp, squeeze out the liquid and combine it with the juice. After installing the septum, leave the wine from the black chokeberry without yeast for fermentation in the heat. During fermentation, every few days, remove the foam from the surface of the drink.
The finished wine is filtered and bottled, then clogged and aged for 1-3 months before taking the sample.