Alcoholic beverage drinks are not always produced in full compliance with the recipe and at the same time costly. It is much easier and cheaper to make your own homemade wine from a currant.
Homemade wine from black currant
This berry grows practically on each site, therefore such drink, promoting strengthening of immunity, any connoisseur of spirits with unusual taste will easily prepare. After all, getting a wine from a currant at home does not require special culinary knowledge.
Ingredients:
- black currant fresh (not washed) - 3 kg;
- white granulated sugar - 475 g;
- purified water - 2 liters.
Preparation
Carefully cut the currant to clear it of twigs and leaves. Remember that you can not wash berries: on their surface there are yeast, which accelerate the process of fermentation, and hence, the production of wine from the currant. Now prepare the mash: put the berries in a saucepan and remember well with the tempest. Pour in a liter of water, mix everything well and leave to infuse for four days. Do not forget to stir the mash periodically.
After this, strain the mixture through a cheesecloth or sieve, add another liter of water and mix. Pour out the blank over clean and dry bottles and pour in the sugar. On the neck of each bottle, put on a rubber glove with a punctured finger and place the containers in a cool with limited access to light for 1.5 months. Separate the ready-made beverage from the sludge, pour out on small bottles, well clog and store in the refrigerator or in the cellar.
Homemade redcurrant wine
Red currants are used in such drinks less often, but the taste of wine will be very unusual. If you store it for special occasions, you will be able to surprise the guests without problems. To learn how to make red currant wine , you should follow the following recommendations.
Ingredients:
- red currant - 5 kg;
- sugar-sand - 2 kg;
- purified water - 5 liters.
Preparation
Go through the currant, removing all the garbage and spoiled berries, but do not wash them. Cream the currant with your hands or with a mixer or rolling pin. Slightly warmed water (25-29 degrees) mix with a kilogram of sugar to make a syrup. Fill the berry mass in a large container with a wide neck, fill with syrup and mix well. Tie the neck of gauze and place for 3-4 days in a place with limited access to light at room temperature. A couple of times a day, stir the contents of the container, utaplivaya pop up flesh.
After that, filter the juice into gauze and pour it into the fermenter (it should be filled to 3/4 of the volume). On her neck put on a rubber glove with a punctured finger and leave the wine to wander at room temperature for 20-45 days. After 5 days, merge half a liter of wort into a separate bowl, add 500 g of sugar, mix thoroughly, pour the resulting syrup back into the fermentation container and close it with a glove. Repeat the same procedure after another five days.
Then drain the wine from the sludge with the help of a tube, add sugar or vodka (alcohol) if desired, again close the container with a glove and send it to the refrigerator or cellar for a couple of months to ripen. After that, the drink is poured over small bottles.
White Currant Wine at home
If, for some reason, you are banned from buying alcohol, this drink for family feasts will be more than apropos. This recipe for wine from currants at home is incredibly simple.
Ingredients:
- water 4.5 liters;
- juice of white currant - 4 liters;
- granulated sugar white, small - 2.4 kg.
Preparation
From ripe berries squeeze the juice with a crush or press. Add 1.6 kg of sugar and leaven to it. The last one is done like this: we wash the white currant, knead it in wooden utensils and pour sugar in the proportion of 1: 3. Mix the mixture and send it to a warm darkened place for a couple of days. The leaven is added to the wort, based on a ratio of 30 grams per liter.
After adding the ferment, leave the wort for 7-10 days at room temperature. Now pour vodka into it, given that one liter of this drink is designed for 10 liters of wine. All mixed and kept for 5 more days. Then we filter the wine and cover the remaining sugar, then pour into bottles and stand for 2-3 more months.