Georgia is a country of hot sun, hot men and strong wine. And also - the homeland of very enterprising people. After all, the Georgians learned to make tasty strong alcohol from the waste left after the production of wine.
Both chacha at home, the recipe of which you will find in this article, and a similar drink, made on an industrial scale, are prepared on the basis of cake. This is a wine grape from which all juice was squeezed. The latter goes to the production of wine, and from the meal is obtained chacha. At home, the recipe for this drink provides a base of slightly unripe black grapes. The pulp, peel and seeds of 15 kilograms of berries are placed in a deep enameled container. The dishes should be very voluminous, because you need to fill this cake with five liters of warm boiled water. Five kilograms of sugar are added there. Closing the container with a lid or tightening with polyethylene, the dishes are left in a dry and warm place for a week. All this time, once a day, the liquid must be stirred.
The second stage: filter the finished mash. Chacha at home (recipes of many housewives confirm this) begins to ferment almost immediately, as soon as the cake is poured with water.
If this does not happen, then the liquid does not have enough heat. When there is no way to strain the future chacha, you can catch the cake from the pan with a slotted spoon. The purified liquid should stay warm for another day, while you can not cover the pan with a lid.
In order for the chacha at home, the recipe of which we are considering, to turn out no worse than that of the best industrial manufacturers, it is necessary to overtake the mash from grape meal through a moonshine still. This unit will help to make real Georgian vodka. And how to make chacha without moonshine? No way. However, Russian vodka too.
The easiest way is to borrow a moonshine from friends if one is not available at home. And if you enjoy experimenting with creating strong alcoholic drinks, you can buy your own. Fortunately, now for this no one will fine you and will not blame you. At industrial enterprises, chacha is distilled only once, but real connoisseurs of this drink believe that if you do this twice, the drink will be cleaner and stronger, up to 80 percent.
Making chachi is a lengthy process, because after distillation in a moonshine still, the drink is bottled and ripens for about a month and a half in a cool place. This time is necessary for Georgian vodka to become a truly exquisite grape drink - very strong, pleasant to taste and easy to use. Chachi lovers claim that the morning after the fun, her head does not hurt at all, and while drinking, her thoughts remain clear and bright. True, like any strong alcohol, this drink negatively affects the coordination of movement.
In general, chacha can’t be abused, of course. Still, it is a very high-alcoholic beverage. But in moderate doses, it does not harm the healthy body. On the contrary, chacha promotes digestion, in a small amount it calms the nervous system well (the main thing here is not to overdo it), and the antioxidants contained in grapes act as a wonderful prophylactic against various diseases.