Homemade honeysuckle wine: simple recipes

Wine made from honeysuckle at home is made in different ways - with and without yeast, with honey, without water, from fresh or frozen berries. The finished drink has a pleasant delicate aroma, an amazing taste with a slight sourness and a beautiful ruby-pomegranate color. All the beneficial properties of honeysuckle are preserved in hand-made wine, so when used in moderation, it will benefit the human body.

How to make honeysuckle wine

In order for the drink to be tasty, beautiful and aromatic, it is necessary to take a responsible approach to the choice of the main ingredient. The berries must be ripe and can only be picked in dry weather. Next, they need to be carefully sorted out, removing rotten and moldy ones. Even one or two spoiled berries can partially worsen or completely spoil the future wine.

For making wine, it is important to select only ripe and whole berries.

It is recommended not to wash clean and ripe honeysuckle before making wine, but if there is a need for this, it will need to be thoroughly dried. In addition to ripe berries, frozen ones can be used for making wine.

The containers in which the drink will ferment are pre-sterilized with high quality so that the wort does not become infected with mold or other microorganisms. For cooking, glass, plastic or wooden dishes are suitable. It is not recommended to use metal without coating.

You can use glass containers with a water seal to ferment wine

To quickly dry the dishes, you can rinse them or wipe them with alcohol.

Homemade Honeysuckle Wine Recipes

There are many recipes for making homemade honeysuckle wine. For beginners, the simplest one, without yeast, is suitable. More experienced winemakers can make drinks with yeast, without water, with honey, and also from frozen berries.

A simple recipe for honeysuckle wine without yeast

This recipe is perfect for beginners. Its advantage is that a tasty and aromatic drink can be obtained using a minimum amount of ingredients. No yeast, vodka or other strong alcohol is used.

Composition:

• 3 kg of berries;
• 3 kg of granulated sugar;
• 2.5 liters of water.

Preparation:

1. Sort the berries, wash, dry, chop and put in a fermentation vessel. Top with sugar.
2. Close the dishes tightly and put in a dark place for three days.
3. After the start of fermentation, add 600 g of granulated sugar.
4. Put on a water seal. Leave for further fermentation in a dark room with a constant temperature for 3-4 weeks.
5. Strain the wine several times to achieve a suitable transparency. Pour into bottles.
6. The young drink must be left for another 30 days, after which it is ready to drink.

Using a glove instead of a water seal when fermenting wine

Honeysuckle wine with yeast

If yeast is used during the preparation of honeysuckle wine, the fermentation process is significantly reduced, the procedure itself becomes easier, and the finished drink will be stronger. This recipe is relevant if the berries are very sour, because the acid interferes with the fermentation process.

Ingredients:

• 3 kg of berries;
• 300 g sugar;
• 1 liter of water;
• 1 tsp yeast.

Recipe:

1. Make a starter: mix yeast according to the instructions with granulated sugar and place in a warm place.
2. Prepare the honeysuckle: sort out, wash, chop, put in a fermentation container and leave until juice is obtained.
3. Add water and sugar.
4. Remove the pulp, leaving only pure juice. After a few hours, pass through the filter.
5. Add the ready-made sourdough to the juice.
6. Install a water seal or a glove, put in a dark place for fermentation.
7. After three months, the liquid is filtered and the water seal is reinstalled.
8. Wait another three months, then drain and bottle.

The finished wine is poured into glass bottles and closed with corks.

Homemade frozen honeysuckle wine

To prepare a delicious and aromatic alcoholic drink from honeysuckle, you can use not only fresh, but also frozen berries. Thus, homemade wine can be made at any time of the year. The process is practically no different from the usual one, but first you need to make juice from frozen ingredients.

By defrosting honeysuckle berries, you can make homemade wine at any time of the year.

Composition:

• 3 liters of juice;
• 300 g sugar;
• 100 g of raisins.

Preparation:

1. Add water to the finished juice and heat the liquid to 35 degrees.
2. Add sugar, stir thoroughly, add raisins.
3. Close the container tightly and place in a warm place to start fermentation.
4. When the process is complete, strain the liquid and bottle.
5. Young honeysuckle wine should be placed in a cold place and aged for 3 months before drinking. During this time, it will acquire an excellent taste and aroma. If sediment forms, the drink is poured again to avoid bitterness.

In this recipe, raisins are used to speed up fermentation. You can replace it with unwashed but clean grapes.

Honeysuckle wine with honey

Some winemakers add honey to the drink. In this case, it acquires a characteristic bright taste and new aroma. We recommend using wooden oak barrels of any size for this recipe.

Homemade honeysuckle and honey wine is recommended to be stored in wooden barrels

Composition:

• 5 kg of honeysuckle;
• 10 liters of water;
• 3 kg of sugar;
• 0.5 kg of honey.

Drink preparation:

1. Prepare the berries: select the spoiled ones, chop them by hand, put them in a fermentation container. Pour 6 liters of water.
2. Infuse for four days, stirring the pulp periodically to avoid mold.
3. Drain the juice, add the remaining water to the container. After six hours, squeeze the pulp and discard, and mix the liquid.
4. Add honey, add granulated sugar.
5. Leave the juice to ferment for six months. After six months, the wine is ready to drink.

It is difficult to make wine from honeysuckle according to such a recipe, so it is recommended that you first gain experience with simpler methods of making this alcoholic drink.

Honeysuckle wine without added water

For a drink that is stronger and has a richer taste, it can be prepared without water. The berries contain enough juice so as not to dilute it with other liquids. This recipe is very simple and therefore suitable for novice winemakers.

Composition:

• honeysuckle - 2 kg;
• granulated sugar - 500 g.

Recipe:

1. Sort the berries, remove the spoiled and unripe, wash, grind in a meat grinder and leave for several days in a warm room so that they let the juice out.
2. Squeeze the liquid out of the pulp and leave it in a cool place.
3. Introduce 200 g of granulated sugar into the pulp and leave to infuse.
4. Re-squeeze the contents of the dishes, mix the first and second juices, add the remaining sugar.
5. Leave to ferment for 30 days in a dark place.
6. Pour, strain the liquid, leave for another 30 days.

The honeysuckle is ground to let the juice out

If the drink is sour, it goes well with meat dishes, and can also be used as a base for making sauces.

Terms and conditions of storage

If the homemade homemade wine is kept in a refrigerator or in a cool room, it can be consumed for several years. To increase this period, it is allowed to fix it with vodka before pouring it into prepared containers.

It is recommended to store the drink, poured into glass bottles and sealed with wooden stoppers, horizontally. In this case, the corks are wetted from the inside with a liquid, this avoids drying out and loss of tightness, leading to the evaporation of alcohol and deterioration of the taste of the drink.

It is recommended to store homemade wine in glass bottles horizontally.

Do not leave homemade wine in plastic containers for a long time. It allows oxygen to pass through, oxidation begins, the drink ferments again and deteriorates. Also, storage in glass containers closed with plastic or metal lids is not allowed. After two months, the wine will be unusable.

Conclusion

Homemade honeysuckle wine is a delicious, aromatic drink with a slight sourness, the use of which in moderation will benefit a person. Inexperienced winemakers are advised to start by making drinks without yeast or without the addition of water; for those with experience, recipes using yeast or honey, as well as with frozen berries, are suitable. Finished wine can be stored for up to several years if it is poured into a suitable container and stored in a dark, cool room or in the refrigerator.

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