Blueberry wine: recipe, tips and secrets

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Home winemakers in the season prepare their favorite drink from almost all berries and fruits. Each of the versions has the right to exist: the variety of tastes and shades is striking and pleasing. But blueberry wine is most approved by connoisseurs. An elegant ruby color, a delicate but rich taste, and the benefits transferred to the drink from berries encourage lovers of homemade alcohol to collect blueberries and use them for the good cause of creating wine. The process is long and rather laborious. But if you have patience and perseverance, on a holiday you can treat yourself and your loved ones to a wonderful drink in all respects.

Tasty and he althy

Blueberries are a very he althy berry. It contains the richest set of all the vitamins and acids necessary for a person, elements (both macro and micro) and a serious dose of pectin, which removes radioactive metals and their compounds. Blueberry juice reduces and normalizesblood glucose, eliminates harmful cholesterol from the body and stimulates both metabolic and digestive processes. The berry strengthens the immune system, increases hemoglobin, helps to overcome inflammation and prevents atherosclerosis. It is also very useful for cores: nothing so quickly and reliably strengthens the heart muscle and all blood vessels. And not so long ago, doctors found that these berries also significantly reduce the risk of tumor diseases.

Blueberry wine has all these qualities. In addition, if it is properly prepared, it can be stored without loss of its original properties for up to four years. This is what winemakers use, savoring a wonderful drink and at the same time strengthening their he alth. A glass of wine a day - and you will not be afraid of autumn colds and flus.

Attention: preparation of raw materials

In order for homemade blueberry wine to succeed and please, the selection of berries must be very meticulous. The key to success is to sort out all damaged, and even more sluggish instances. Unripe berries should also not be in the raw material: from them, blueberry wine acquires an unpleasant bitterness. In addition, they contain few fermenting substances. The berries would rather become moldy than turn into coveted wine.

In addition, even the smallest pieces of leaves or twigs should not get into the drink: they contain toxins that provoke nausea (and even vomiting), severe dizziness. And at high concentrations, toxic compounds can cause fainting. Moreover, when insisting, their concentration increases, so sortingneed the most thorough.

Homemade blueberry honey wine

Usually winemakers use 10 liter glass bottles. This volume requires four kilos of ripe, sorted blueberries. The berries are washed, filtered from the water and kneaded. Both juice and pulp are placed in a clean container. Two liters of water are also poured here; it is advisable to use a spring, in its absence, a good bottled one will do. The future blueberry wine is left in the dark and warm for four days. To prevent midges and debris from getting into the balloon, its neck is tied with several layers of gauze.

When the aging period is over, the infusion is well filtered, the pulp is carefully squeezed out and thrown away. Juice is poured into a clean container; one and a half kilograms of sugar and a third of honey, dissolved in one and a half liters of pure water, are poured into it. The most delicious blueberry wine at home is obtained using linden honey, but any other, as long as it is natural, will do. After these procedures, a water seal is installed on the cylinder, and the structure is returned to its place until fermentation is completed.

Second stage

When the blueberry wine finishes playing, it will need to be clarified. For this purpose, it is drained from the sediment through a siphon. Then the shutter is put back on, and the bottle is left to mature for another two months. Now its place is in the cool. When the drink becomes completely transparent, it is carefully bottled, corked (you can even tar) and stored in a cool and dark place without fail.

Glove way

There is another recipe for blueberry wine that even a novice winemaker can implement. Step by step it will look like this.

1. Five kilos of unwashed berries are kneaded to a pulp and placed in a bottle.
2. Half a cup of raisins is added to blueberries (no need to wash and steam), a 20-gram bag of citric acid, a pound of white sugar and five liters of water.
3. After 4 days, when fermentation is clearly visible, the base is strained and squeezed into a new container. Another pound of sugar is added.
4. A medical glove pierced with a needle is put on the neck.
5. After four days, a glass of liquid is poured, another half a kilogram of sugar is dissolved in it, and the solution is returned to the bottle. Three days later, the manipulations are repeated.

The blueberry wine will ferment for two months. Then it is taken out in a cool place for 8-9 months for settling. The sediment must be removed every three weeks. Aged wine is bottled and consumed as desired.