Elderberry Wine

Elderberry Wine: recipe at home.

Вино з бузини – фантастичний, refreshing, easy to drink, which is easily prepared at home.

This plant grows in temperate climates, and shrub blooms in early summer.

From elderberry can be prepared not only wine, but also tinctures, including. Medicinal tinctures heart.

An important step in cooking wine from Elder is the definition of quality plants.

Elderberry is often confused with other plants, sometimes even poisonous!

So if you doubt in, whether the elder plant, leave it.

In this case, instead of color can take dried berries, which can be purchased on the market.

If you are still unsure, the plant is exactly elder, then take the color of the bush can only be, if no flowers small midges.

This attempt to disrupt only the color, without steblinok. Usually, If you hold down elderberry flower hands, he showered.

It is an indicator of good material for wine.

1. Video recipe of the black elderberry wine
2. Recipe of house wine with elderberry

Video recipe of black elderberry wine

Recipe of house wine with elderberry

Necessary ingredients:

• 1 quart elderberry blossom (same color, no stems!);
• 4-5 lemons;
• 1 orange;
• 2 bag of green tea;
• 1,8 kg of sugar;
• Wine yeast.

The process of making wine with elderberry

To start, make sure, that all the dishes, to be used, sterile! This is a very important moment for tasty and quality house wine!

Carefully take over the cream elderberry, remove all foreign matter (steblinki, leaf). You just have to stay elderberry flowers!

Wash lemons and oranges. Cleanse them from the skin and cut.

Citrus put in a bucket, add bags of green tea.

Add the granulated sugar.

Adding 4,5 liters of water and is thoroughly mixed.

Bucket cover and give good cool. Cover the bucket to reliably! He should not get insects (fly, gnats, etc.).

When the mixture has cooled to room temperature, add yeast.

We leave mash insist on 5 days. Do not forget to stir every day the future of elderberry wine!

Secondary fermentation of wine. Five days after mash filter cloth or gauze. Pour the liquid into a sterilized bottle of medium size. Attach the bottle to air gateway, which will depart gases, produced by yeast. The role of the gateway can perform perfectly ordinary balloon. Place the bottle in a warm place, to complete the fermentation process. Fermentation should take place for about a month, and sometimes two. End of the process will provide clean clear wine from the sediment at the bottom. It is clear then you can pour the wine into another bottle, separating the precipitate.

Bottling wine with elderberry. When wine fermentation process completed, you can move on to its bottling. Deadline fermentation, you have learned, it is very difficult to specify, it will depend on yeast and wort storage conditions. Even if the wine in the bottles remain after fermentation, This drink will not hurt!

After bottling the wine should nastoyalosya 4-6 months, moreover 6 місяців – оптимальний варіант. Of course, You can take still wine, but just six months later with elderberry wine will be the most delicious.

pouring wine, be sure, crystal clear that the bottles!

Remember to sterilize all utensils for wine!

When all these simple rules, you can enjoy delicious, spiced wine!