Currant wine at home

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Currant berries are an excellent material for making homemade wine. As a wine material, you can use them entirely with brushes or without them, as well as currant juice. In addition, wine from currants of different varieties is perfect for blending, that is, mixing in order to give the drink a different taste, strength or aroma.

For making wine at home, you can take any variety of currant. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account the different taste properties of berries: table wine of a pleasant golden color is obtained from the white varieties of this shrub, and the presence of brushes and twigs adds astringency to the drink. Black and red berries are high in acid and have a strong odor, so wine from these currant varieties is usually diluted with water or drinks made from less acidic fruits.

To make wine from currants, you will need berries of a certain variety, a container - usually a bottle or a jar of several liters, as well as water, sugar. Additional tools and ingredients are used depending on the recipe.

Blackcurrant wine can be prepared as follows. Harvested in fine weather, carefullywashed and dried berries should be mashed. You need to do this with your hands, without missing a single berry. Then add sugar to the resulting pulp at the rate of 200-250 g per liter of fresh berries. Sugar will remove the acidity of the berries and activate the fermentation process, since there is very little wine yeast in currants.

The next ingredient is water. You need to add 100 ml for every kilogram of fresh berries. For better fermentation, it is advisable to add a handful of raisins.

Next, mix all the ingredients, close the container and put in a cool place for about a week, not forgetting to stir daily. Stirring will prevent mold from forming.

After the prescribed time, the pulp and juice will reach a thick scarlet color. Now you need to squeeze the pulp with a press or manually. To clear the juice from currant seeds, it must be filtered through a colander. Pour the squeezed juice into a container with a water seal - a gas outlet tube in the lid, while the end of the tube is lowered into a glass of water.

Squeezed pulp should be poured with cold water in the amount of half a liter, left to ferment for a week, then squeeze the resulting juice and add to the juice of the "first pressing". Leave the whole mixture to stand for another week, strain. Separately, you need to strain the juice and sediment at the bottom of the container, followed by mixing. Strain and stir weekly for two to three weeks. As soon as the sediment stops forming, homemade currant wine is ready!

This is how you can make whitecurrant wine. Many gourmets claim that the taste of thisthe drink resembles a real grape wine. As a rule, wine made from white berries is dry, and some winemakers try to remove sourness by adding sugar. But this action almost completely "kills" the natural flavor of the fruit. Initially prepared wine has a maximum strength of 11%. If desired, you can “reinforce” the currant wine by adding vodka or alcohol at the final stage.