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Homemade wine is always especially appreciated because it is a natural product and has an original taste and aroma. You can prepare an alcoholic drink at home from various products, for example, apples, grapes, currants. Raspberry wine is considered the most delicious and elite. It is prepared from ripe, sweet berries in compliance with a certain technology. Further in the article we will try to give several different recipes with a detailed description, so that even a novice winemaker can make raspberry wine at home.
Classic recipe with detailed description
Homemade raspberry wine can be fortified or light. The simplest, classic recipe for wine, given below, allows you to get exactly a low-alcohol drink with a strength of 10-12%. To make it, you will need 1 kg of berries, 1 liter of water and 500 g of sugar. If desired, the finished wine can be fixed with alcohol or vodka.
Using this recipe as an example, we will try to describe in as much detail the subtleties of making raspberry wine as possible. The fundamentals of the proposed technology should be used in other recipes for winemaking. And it is recommended to prepare homemade raspberry wine as follows:
- Ripe raspberries carefully grind through a sieve or meat grinder. Transfer the resulting gruel to a clean glass container, leaving 1/3 of the free space. Add 0.7 liters of water and 0.3 kg of sugar to the berry puree.
- Cover the glass container with a water seal or a rubber glove. When using a glove, remember to make a small hole with a needle in one of its fingers to remove carbon dioxide.
- The resulting wort should be left in the room for 8-10 days. At this time, an active fermentation process will be observed with the formation of foam and the release of carbon dioxide. During this period, it is recommended to stir the wort daily.
- Strain the wort through a multi-layered piece of gauze. The berry pulp should be squeezed out, the cake should be discarded, and the liquid should be used in the future.
- Stir 0.3 l of pure water and 100 g of sugar. Pour the resulting syrup into the wort. Cover the container with liquid again with a glove or a special lid.
- After 3 days, add another portion of sugar (100 g) to the wort and close the container again with a glove.
- For 30-60 days from the day when the last portion of sugar was added, the raspberry drink should ferment. After about 40 days of fermentation, it must be removed from the sediment by pouring it into a new, clean container. "Pure" wine must be fermented for several days under a water seal (glove).
- At the end of fermentation, the glove will deflate, and the odor trap will no longer allow bubbles to pass through. Wort clarification is also a sign of readiness.
- The finished alcoholic drink is once again removed from the sediment and bottled. If desired, raspberry wine can be sweetened or fixed with alcohol (vodka). If sugar is added, the wine may begin to ferment again, so cover the container with a water seal for a few days. The finished drink must be filled to the top, leaving a minimum amount of air inside.
- To obtain a brighter taste, the wine is ripened for 3-6 months at a temperature of + 6- + 160FROM.
All the described recommendations for making raspberry wine are perfectly demonstrated in the video:
An illustrative example will allow you to understand even the most difficult moments of winemaking.
Raspberry wine made at home is perfectly stored under an airtight lid in a cellar for 5 years. Over time, the taste of alcohol becomes even more delicate and noble.
The best recipes for raspberry wine
The technology proposed above makes it possible to prepare a classic wine from raspberries. A light or fortified drink with the addition of alcohol (vodka) will have an excellent, delicate taste and aroma. But in addition to the classic recipe, there are other options for making wine using various additives.
Raspberry wine with raisins
You can make raspberry wine with the addition of raisins. Dried grapes will give the drink unique flavor notes and a noble flavor. To prepare such a wine, you will need 3 kg of raspberries and 3 liters of water. You will need to add 8 tbsp to the wine. sugar and about 150-200 g of raisins, preferably obtained from dark grapes.
Making wine does not fundamentally differ from the above proposed technology:
- Grind raspberries.
- Prepare a syrup from water and half the specified amount of sugar. The syrup can be boiled over a fire for a couple of minutes or the sugar can be dissolved by stirring for a long time.
- Mix berry puree with chilled syrup. Add raisins. Heat the mixture for 1.5 weeks for primary fermentation. Cover the jar with the wort with gauze or a piece of clean cloth. The mixture of berries and syrup must be mixed daily.
- After 8-10 days, remove the pulp from the container, remove the wine from the sediment, add the remaining sugar to the composition.
- Close the container with a glove or a water seal. The wort should be in this state until the end of the secondary fermentation for about 2 months.
- The finished wine, removed from the sediment again, must be poured into bottles under an airtight lid.
The raisins are pretty sweet. On its surface, it contains a certain amount of yeast and is able to activate the fermentation process. At the same time, the raisins give off their unique aroma and noble shade.
Berry wine with raspberries, cherries and currants
The combination of various berries makes it possible to obtain a very interesting alcoholic drink. So, in one recipe, you can use raspberries, black currants, cherries at the same time. Let's talk about how to make such a wine in more detail.
For one wine recipe, you must use 1.5 liters of raspberry juice and currant juice, 1 liter of cherry juice. Sugar can be added to wine, depending on the desired strength, in an amount from 1.5 to 2.5 kg.
The process of making a berry drink is as follows:
- Squeeze juices from unwashed berries and mix. Add half the sugar, stir the drink and cover the container with a water seal.
- After 2 weeks, add another small portion of sugar and wait for the active fermentation stage again.
- If you decide to make wine with a high alcohol content, then add sugar until the yeast is killed by the high alcohol concentration (15%). During this time, the wine will become consistently sweet and strong.
- If the fortress is satisfied at a certain stage of wine preparation, then it is necessary to wait until the fermentation stops completely, and remove the wine from the sediment.
- Pour the finished wine into clean containers and seal them tightly.
- Store wine in a cool cellar or refrigerator for 1-2 months to fully ripen.
Berry wine turns out to be very concentrated and aromatic, similar to liqueur. You can make the alcoholic drink lighter and more unobtrusive by adding water at the initial stage of preparation.To do this, sugar must be dissolved in 1 liter of water and added to the mixture of berry juices.
Raspberry jam wine
It often happens that an open jar of jam lingered in the refrigerator, or somewhere in the cellar, on the far shelf, there was suddenly a “perennial raspberry treasure”. In this case, you can process the jam into a wonderful wine. This will require 2.5 liters of water and 1 liter of jam. The raisins in the recipe will become a source of yeast, so you don't need to wash them first.
You need to make wine from jam like this:
- Heat the water slightly, add jam and raisins to it. Mix the ingredients thoroughly and pour into a glass bottle or jar, filling 2/3 of the total volume.
- Leave the wort warm for 3-4 weeks under a rubber glove or a water seal. During this time, the fermentation process must successfully pass and complete.
- Remove the pulp from the liquid, separate the wine from the sediment. Pour it into bottles, close the airtight lid and send it to storage.
The recipe using raspberry jam is unique because it can be used to make wine relatively quickly. At the same time, an alcoholic drink always turns out to be aromatic and tasty.
A good example of how to make raspberry jam wine, can be seen in the video:
The proposed recipe is very simple and accessible to everyone, even a novice winemaker.
Conclusion
For homemade wine, you can use aromatic forest or garden raspberries, which will give not only taste pleasure, but also benefit for the human body. If you use a yellow berry in the recipe, you can get an excellent white wine that will surprise the most sophisticated taster. Raisins, cherries or other berries can complement and set off the taste of raspberries, making the wine even more noble. But even using the simplest recipe for raspberry wine, you can make a delicious, natural alcoholic drink at home, which will be a great alternative to purchased wines and vodka.
