How to properly prepare delicious raspberry wine?
Raspberry wine is an excellent tasty drink that can cheer you up, improve your appetite, and saturate with vitamins. It has an excellent ruby color and a pleasant aroma. This drink will be an excellent addition to the festive table, and will not be inferior to expensive wines in taste. But how to cook it properly?
Sweet Wine Recipe
- 6 liters of berry juice;
- 1.5 cups of starter culture;
- 2.5 liters of water;
- 2.5 kg of sugar;
- liter of vodka.
Initially, the leaven is made. It should take no more than 10 days before making raspberry wine. Otherwise, the leaven may turn sour. Take 2 cups of berries and pour it into a bottle. You do not need to wash them. 1 glass of water and 100 g of sugar are added to the berries. The mixture is thoroughly mixed, shaken and left in the dark for the fermentation process. The sourdough will be ready in 4 days.
For the preparation of this wine, raspberry juice is prepared. You need to take so many berries to make 6 liters of liquid.
Initially, raspberries get over, as tainted and green berries will not work. In addition, there is no need to wash it, as there are necessary bacteria on its surface that contribute to the fermentation process.
Juice, water and 1.5 kg of sugar are mixed in a container. The resulting liquid is poured into a bottle and combined with the strained starter culture. This mixture should fill 2/3 of the container. All this is closed with a shutter that allows air to pass through and placed in a warm place.
It will take about 7-10 days, after which fermentation will stop. At this stage, vodka is poured into the wine. This mixture is left for another 5 days. The resulting wine is filtered, combined with the remaining sugar, and bottled.
Semi-dry wine recipe
There is another simple recipe for making raspberry wine. First you need to take 2 kg of raspberries and 300 g of sugar. The berries are sorted out. We must not forget that you cannot wash them. Raspberries are placed in a container and crushed. Sugar is added to it. All this is well mixed, covered with a cloth and placed in a warm place.
After 3-4 days, a foam cap will appear on the surface of the mixture. Berry residues will be on top, and juice will fall down, which is carefully poured into a clean bottle.
The container is closed with a stopper, which has a discharge tube. Its end is immersed in a jar filled with water. In this way, carbon dioxide is removed through the water. The container should be located in a room where the air temperature is about 25 degrees.
When bubbles stop appearing on the water, then the fermentation process itself is over. This often takes 15-25 days. Using a tube, the drink is poured into another container, which is also closed with a water seal. The container is transferred for 1-2 months to a place where it is cool. Then the wine is poured into bottles without touching the sediment that has formed.
Another recipe
For this raspberry wine, you will need the following products:
- 1 kg of berries;
- 0.6 kg of sugar;
- 1 liter of water.
Unwashed raspberries pours out into a 3 liter jar. Gruel is made from it. Sugar is poured into the water, its complete dissolution should occur. The resulting liquid is poured over the raspberries. All this is mixed and covered with gauze.The container should stand in the dark for about a week. The mixture is stirred daily with a wooden stick.
On day 8, foam forms due to fermentation. The drink is filtered through cheesecloth and poured into a jar. It is closed with a rubber glove, in which a hole is previously made to remove carbon dioxide. The fermentation process will take place for 1.5 months. During this time, a sediment forms at the bottom.
The raspberry wine is poured into another container using a rubber hose. This is simple to do: you need to immerse one end in wine, pull air through the other. After that, the wine will begin to flow through the tube into another container. The prepared wine is poured into bottles and allowed to mature for a couple of months. The result is a drink with a strength of 16-18 degrees.
Important rules
It is recommended to pay attention to some of the nuances:
- If the wine is kept at high temperatures, it can become cloudy. Therefore, it is worth leaving the drink in a dark place.
- The air that enters the bottle can spoil the quality of wine. To prevent this from happening, you need to fill the bottles almost completely. During storage, they should be tilted so that the cork covers the drink.
- The berries do not need to be washed before cooking.
Raspberry wine is rich in vitamins and is good for your health. Using one of the recipes, you can make this delicious drink yourself at home.