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It is so conceived by nature that very few people use fresh mountain ash just like that, since it has a bitter astringent taste. But for jams, preserves is quite suitable. And what a delicious wine it turns out! It is mountain ash that has long been used in winemaking.
Homemade red rowan wine has a tart aroma. But even this is not the main thing. Mountain ash wine also has healing properties. It supports the immune system, improves blood circulation and metabolic processes in the body. In addition, such a drink contains a large amount of vitamins and minerals.
Cooking berries
A hoppy drink made from rowan berries, prepared at home, can be prepared by any housewife or owner, if there is a desire and patience. But, the main thing is to pick the berries on time so that there is no bitterness in the finished drink. That is why the fruits are harvested for making wine at home after frost. Due to the frost hitting the berry, it becomes sweeter, as its sugar content rises to a maximum.
To make homemade red rowan wine, you can use wild or cultivated rowan berries. But the most luxurious drink with an exquisite taste is obtained from such varieties: "Pomegranate", "Likerny", "Burka". Dessert mountain ash wine turns out to be strong, aromatic.
To prepare one liter of a hoppy drink, you need from 4 to 4.5 kg of berries. Before preparing the wort, you need to remove the twigs, but it is not necessary to wash it, since it still needs to be poured with boiling water before preparing the wine.
About the beneficial properties of wine
As we have already noted, homemade rowan wine is a valuable product. Let's talk about this in more detail:
- marked diuretic, choleretic and diaphoretic properties;
- saves from colds;
- promotes easy bowel cleansing;
- stimulates the work of the heart, liver, stomach;
- inhibits the growth of fungal diseases.
It should be noted that there are also contraindications to the use of homemade rowan wine. If you have hemophilia or a bleeding disorder, it is better not to even try the drink.
To improve the taste, winemakers add cranberry, apple or other juices to mountain ash wine. For example, six parts of apple juice are added to four servings of rowan juice.
How to properly prepare wine - recipes
There are a lot of technologies and recipes for making mountain ash wine, but we will talk about how to make homemade wine from mountain ash berries simply, without any special problems. The intoxicated drink turns out to be of a delicate orange-pinkish color.
Recipe one - the classics of winemaking
To make mountain ash wine at home, we need the following components:
- mountain ash - 10 kg;
- water 4 liters (if desired, add apple juice in a 1: 1 ratio);
- granulated sugar - 2 kg;
- raisins - 150 grams (can be replaced with grapes).
Cooking features
- Before making wine at home, pour the stemless berries with boiling water for half an hour. We will repeat this procedure twice. Thanks to this, there will be less tannins, and the finished wine will not be too tart.
- We pass the prepared berries through a meat grinder and squeeze through a cotton cloth or gauze in several layers.
- Put the pulp in a bottle with a wide neck and fill it with water at a temperature of 70 degrees. After stirring, leave to cool to room temperature.
- Then add rowan juice, the first part of granulated sugar, unwashed grapes. Grapes for homemade rowan wine are crushed at home, but you do not need to wash it, since a whitish coating on them is responsible for successful fermentation.
- After mixing the ingredients, tie the neck of the bottle with gauze and put the wort in a warm (18 degrees) and dark place.
- During fermentation, future mountain ash wine will begin to foam and a sour smell will be felt. This is the signal: it's time to filter the wort.
- Add sugar to the juice without the pulp of the berries and again set the homemade wine to ferment. The container must be large so that one third of the container is not filled. You need to put on a glove on the bottle, after piercing one of the fingers with a needle. Under the influence of gases, the glove will inflate, and by the end of fermentation it will drop.
- The wort for homemade wine should ferment a second time for at least two weeks in a dark and very warm place. It is necessary to maintain the temperature between 20 and 30 degrees. At this time, gas bubbles "plying" up and down will be observed in the container.
- When the bubbles disappear and the bottom of the container closes the sediment, we pour the young mountain ash wine made at home into clean sterilized bottles. This must be done carefully so as not to raise the dregs.
- We close them hermetically and put them in a cool place at a temperature of no more than 15 degrees. The sun's rays should not fall on the container. Young wine should stand for about 4 months and do not need to be touched. During this time, the wine will not only reach the desired condition, but also a new sediment will appear at the bottom.
Drain again from the sediment. Delicious red rowan wine at home according to the classic recipe is ready. We close the bottles, put them horizontally and put them in a cool place.
Such wine, when the correct storage conditions are created, does not deteriorate for several years. Moreover, the longer the exposure, the tastier and sweeter the intoxicated drink becomes.
Second recipe
Prepare in advance:
- 2 kg of berries;
- granulated sugar - 2 kg;
- water - 8 liters;
- ammonium chloride - 0.3 grams per liter of wort.
Let's start cooking
- First you need to cook the mountain ash. The berries need to be thawed and poured over with boiling water for half an hour. Then pour over with cold water, let the liquid drain and make mashed potatoes from the fruits of red rowan in any convenient way.
- We transfer the mass to a large bottle, add water, pour one kilogram of granulated sugar and ammonium. If such an ingredient is not available, replace it with raisins.
- Pull a medical glove on top of the bottle, pre-pierce any finger with a needle and put it in heat for fermentation.
- After a while, the process stops, it's time to add the rest of the sugar.
After secondary fermentation, drain the house wine from the mountain ash from the sediment, pour it into clean bottles, and seal it tightly. The drink will mature for at least four months. Strain it and pour it into another container before using it.
The third recipe is simple
Making wine from mountain ash according to a simple recipe is really not difficult, and the ingredients are minimal: mountain ash - 2 kg and sugar to taste. As a rule, about one and a half kilograms of granulated sugar is added to 2.5 liters of water.
Defrost the berry and sprinkle with boiling water. Grind in a meat grinder, and then squeeze out the juice and pour it into a bottle. Let's add water and sugar to the future wine at our discretion, having previously tasted it.
When the granulated sugar has dissolved, put a water seal on the container or pull on a rubber glove and leave it to ferment. When the process is over, remove the water seal or glove, filter the sediment and pour it into sterile bottles.
Self-made rowan wine turns out to be fragrant, with a tart taste.
Fourth recipe
We will need:
- 2 kg of red rowan berries;
- 9 liters of water;
- granulated sugar at your discretion;
- a handful of raisins.
We put the thawed and chopped berries for making wine in a large container and pour 9 liters of boiling water. Cover with gauze and leave to ferment. At the very beginning of the process, we filter the base, add sugar.
After dissolving the sugar, immediately pour it into bottles, put 3 raisins in each bottle. It is not necessary to wash it, since yeast fungi are located on its surface.
We close the container with wine hermetically and put it in cool and dark. We put the bottles horizontally and wait about 3-4 months for the fermentation process to complete.
Rowan tincture recipe is also useful:
Instead of a conclusion - advice
- If desired, instead of water, you can use apple juice, no more than half the volume.
- It is better to take black raisins, with it fermentation is more intense.
- According to the recipes, it is recommended to add sugar twice when making wine. But some winemakers divide this process into three parts. This allows you to control the fermentation process and select the desired sweetness of the wine.
- If you want to get a sweet hoppy drink, then you can add from 500 grams to 4 kg of sugar, not counting the ingredient indicated in the recipe.
Homemade mountain ash wine is a great addition to meat dishes. But many connoisseurs of the drink drink a little, like medicine.
