Home winemaking: tasty and healthy. Cooking Wine from Blackthorn

Blackthorn is a bush with sweet and sour blue berries. To overestimate the beneficial properties of these berries is almost impossible: thanks to the unique composition (vitamins A, B, P, tannins, pectins, essential oils), they are used in medicine and cooking. It is added to pastries, jellies, compotes, jam is harvested for the winter, and wine is also made from blackthorn. Harvest is recommended after frost: that's when they change their tart taste to sweet. The useful properties of the thorn include anti-inflammatory and astringent, it has a powerful diuretic effect, and also relieves inflammation of the intestine and fights acne. In the main, the thorn grows in the wild, but most dacha farmers plant their gardens with this shrub to prepare aromatic spicy wine from thorns in winter . How to make this alcoholic beverage at home, we will consider below.

Use of a thorn in home winemaking

Recipes of home wines are passed down from generation to generation. If earlier this drink was prepared only from fresh grapes, now it can be any fresh or canned fruit and berries, and even jam. Good house wine is prepared not one day. After passing all the stages of winemaking, it is served to the table 2-4 months after the raw material is prepared. There are several options for making a drink from the turn at home.

We prepare the thorny wine homemade

The recipe of this drink is quite simple, the technology of making other wines is taken as a basis.

Stage 1. Preparation of raw materials

Berries of thorn, which will become the raw material for wine, are collected after frost. During this period they become extraordinarily juicy and sweet. They do not wash, but leave for a few days to submerge. Why can not berries be washed? On their skin are bacteria that promote fermentation. Prepared berries in this way are put in a container and crushed to a homogeneous mass (mashed potatoes). Further in a ratio of 1 to 1, add water. That is, the volume should double. The prepared mixture is left in the open air or in a warm room, previously covering the container with a loose cloth, for example gauze. Also suitable is a mosquito net.

Stage 2. Filtering

To make the wine of bramble good quality, it is important to correctly, and most importantly, in time to filter it. When the process of fermentation begins (this is indicated by the appearance of foam and bubbles on the surface), the separation of the pulp from the juice begins. Your task is to strain the mixture, separate and wring out the pulp and get a good juice, which must be poured into sealed containers, for example bottles, for further fermentation. In the received sherry juice it is necessary to add sugar: if you are a fan of dry and semi-dry wine, then you need to pour 250 grams. Per liter, if semisweet or sweet - then 300-350 gr. Filling the juice in a bottle, fill them up not so high, enough for ¾ of the entire volume. During fermentation, a profuse foam appears on the surface: this is the place we leave for it. Bottles should be covered with lids with water closures. They can be purchased or made by yourself. It is enough to make a hole in the lid and insert a tube. Some winemakers use rubber gloves, which are fixed on the neck with threads. The shutter is installed in order for the produced carbon dioxide to leave the tank, and the air outside could not get inside.

Stage 3. The process of fermentation

At this stage, the fermentation process takes place. At a properly selected temperature (not lower than 20 ^о С), it lasts on average about 30-45 days. The end of fermentation is indicated by the absence of gas evolution. Now in the bottles instead of juice - a young wine from the thorns.

Stage 4. Maturation

At this stage, young wine is maturing . The thorny takes about 2 months. But even during this period there will be some turbidity in it. This is due to the presence of microscopic particles that can not be filtered. The appearance of the drink does not affect its taste. Correctly prepared thorn wine is hundreds of times higher than the expensive wines offered to us by supermarkets.