Home-made wine is always much tastier than purchased at the store. After all, you know exactly what ingredients were used in the recipe. Homemade wine will not contain harmful colorants or flavors. A balanced set of high-quality products gives alcohol a completely unique taste. And you can enjoy the aroma of such a drink throughout the feast. Making homemade wine from apples is very simple. Even a novice cook will cope with this task. It is only necessary to strictly follow all the recommendations contained in this recipe.
This wine is low alcohol, but very tasty. It is perfect for almost any dish. Homemade apple wine is considered dessert. However, many connoisseurs of alcohol claim that it goes well with fish, meat and all snacks, including a variety of salads.
Making wine from apples requires a fairly large amount of time. After all, alcohol must necessarily be infused and fermented. You will need the following components: take 10 kilograms of apples, 400 ml of boiled water, a couple of kilograms of sugar and a little dark raisins (200 g).
Rinse the fruit thoroughly and sort it out. In no case do not allow the use of sick and rotten apples! This will negatively affect the taste of the finished wine. Remove the internal partitions, foils, and the entire core along with the seeds from the fruit. Be sure to remove the stalks. Apple wine, the recipe of which is described in this article, will be a little easier to make if you use an electric juicer. Pass the fruits cut into pieces through it, and pour the resulting nectar into a separate dry container.
Next, we will focus on the preparation of wort. To do this, dissolve 1 kg of sugar in a small amount of juice. Once all the grains have disappeared, carefully add the remaining fruit liquid. Wine from apples, the recipe of which you are currently studying, must be infused in a large bottle with a not too wide neck. Wrap it with a thick cloth and leave to roam for one or a half weeks. After that, it will be possible to pour in the remaining granulated sugar.
Now you can do the cooking of special wine yeast. Take raisins and fill it with boiled water. All this must be left for about 4 days. After the mass has fermented, the leaven can be considered completely ready for further use. On such components wine from apples (the recipe, as you see, does not contain any extraneous "chemistry") will turn out to be incredibly tasty and sweet. Pour the sourdough into the must. Seal the container tightly and place it in some dimly lit room for about 5 days. After the deadline, put on the neck of the bottle rubber glove with a small puncture. When it is blown away, the fermentation process can be considered complete.
Gently transfer the almost finished wine from apples (the recipe does not provide for straining at this stage) in other dishes. Let the product brew for about a month and a half. The liquid should become lighter and more transparent. A light residue will remain at the bottom of the bottle. This is pulp and yeast. They must be separated from the wine. To do this, strain the liquid through cheesecloth. Bottle the wine. Such homemade alcohol is stored for about six months.