Wine chokeberry

Wine chokeberry: best recipes.

Many gardeners in the area as a decorative shrub grows chokeberry Aronia, which in our country is often called chokeberry.

Undemanding plant hardiness, wherein skoroplidnistyu, not only decorates the garden, but also gives people the opportunity to improve health.

Indeed, as part of berries are rich in vitamins (BUT, AT, WITH, E, RR), micronutrients (brown, molybdenum, iodine, fluorine, iron, manganese, copper).

Use of Aronia positively affect the condition of blood vessels, lowers high blood pressure, enhances immunity.

Berry Aronia sweet-sour, terpki, black, in diameter around 7 mm, ripen in late August – early September.

With chokeberry Aronia make jelly and mousse, dried tea infuser, prepare the filling for pies, cook compotes.

Conduct of berries have dessert wine and home – fragrantly, as tart, pleasant sour-sweet taste, maroon color.

Alcohol by volume in the range 10-12%. Dry wine with chokeberry Aronia is too acidic (fruit sugar is no more 10%), as well as alcohol by volume is low.

A sweet wine like not all.

1. How to prepare chokeberry?
2. Recipe of wine from chokeberry Aronia
3. Recipe of wine from frozen berries

How to prepare chokeberry?

Chernoplіdki, As briefly name some berry wine, harvested in warm dry day.

Usually chokeberry harvest takes place in September, but if the weather permits, combs can be cut fruits in October, until the first frost.

When collecting must be careful, as chokeberry juice leaves traces on clothes, poorly vidtyrayutsya.

whitish plaque, which is present in the berries, no need to rinse.

Otherwise, the yeast will die, living in berry skins.

true, if the ash has been frozen, have to add wine yeast or unwashed raisins, otherwise the wine will ferment.

By the way, Raisins are often added to the wine fresh even chernoplodky, that fermentation was active.

To make wine with chokeberry in the home need the highest quality berries.

From rotten, immature and spoiled fruit birds (birds like prejudice Aronia berries) to get rid, otherwise hurt the taste of the drink.

Crests, which kept berries, and accidentally leaves have also disrupted remove.

By the way, dirty in the process of winemaking should be only the chernoplidka.

Tara fermentation should wash, pour over boiling water and dried.

Also important clean hands, spoons to stir the mash, sieve, (gauze), tube, through which will be poured wine from sediment.

It is advisable to opt for fermentation glass-, stainless steel or enameled inside intact.

Sometimes because of the lack of such use of plastic containers, but it may affect the quality of wine flavoring.

Containers made of aluminum or copper categorically not suitable for winemaking through susceptibility to oxidation.

Recipe of wine from chokeberry Aronia

Ingredients

• strawberries – 10 kg;
• Sugar – 2 kg;
• water – 2 l;
• Raisins – 100 g.

preparation

1. Berries chokeberry bust, unwashed stretch (hands, wooden pestle, using elektrom'yasorubky), place in a bowl of appropriate size;
2. By berry weight Pour half cooked sugar (1 kg) all highlights (dirty). Thoroughly mix the contents of containers, to dissolve sugar;
3. Close cover bowl with mash or gauze tie. Introduce container in a warm place (close 18-25 C) a period of 3 to 10 days. You will need to periodically (two or three times a day) stir the contents of containers by hand or with a wooden spoon, to prevent zaplisnyavilist wort;
4. When the berries will swell and the surface, while stirring appear strong foam, the time comes to start filtering mash of chokeberry. Terms range from 3 to 10 days after the room temperature and the degree of fermentation activity. so, squeeze pulp (pulp and peel chernoplidky, which surfaced). Throwing it at this stage is not required. Aronia juice is filtered through cheesecloth and pour into a container for fermentation. Wear water seal at the neck or punctured medical gloves and pick up the container in a warm room;
5. By zalyshyvshoyisya squeeze the pulp to add pounds of sugar and water at room temperature, mix well. Carry into heat, pre lid bandaged with gauze or utensils with another portion of wort. Wait for 5-7 days, stirring occasionally. Strain wort, then discard pulp;
6. Remove from packaging, where wandering chokeberry juice water seal (glove). Remove the foam with a spoon, pour new batch of wort. Again put water seal (glove) and leave to ferment for a period of 20 to 60 days;
7. They say the willingness wines such facts: appearance of the sediment, light wine, no bubbles of water seal or drop gloves. When these symptoms manifest themselves, the time comes to remove the wine from the sediment through a thin tube;
8. The taste of the resulting wine is not so good, so better to let him mature. To this filtered liquor pour into a container appropriate amount to capacity and incur a cool place (example, in the cellar) on 3-6 months. With the appearance of the sediment needed to pour the wine into another container, otherwise the wine will be with bitterness;
9. Ripe wine pour into suitable bottles, store in the basement, refrigerator or cellar close 5 years.

If alcohol by volume small (usually no more than 12%), You can pour into wine (before, putting it on maturation) spirits – alcohol or vodka.

By this recipe obtained from wine can be added to 80 ml of alcohol or 160 ml per liter of vodka drink.

Then increase to the strength of wine 20% (provided, that the initial strength of the drink 12%).

Recipe of wine from frozen berries chokeberry

If chokeberry at their summer cottage lot, a large amount of container available there, Berries can be frozen, to use them later.

Optionally, you can make wine from frozen grapes a year prior prescription, but there is little opportunity to accelerate, getting rid of the pulp immediately after squeezing juice.

By the way, sometimes taste wines from chokeberry Aronia little change, adding initially the main ingredients a little cinnamon and clove.

Ingredients

• Frozen chokeberry – 5 kg;
• Sugar – 2,5 kg;
• water – 3 l;
• Raisins – 200-250 g.

preparation

1. The berries are thawed chernoplidky. squeeze juice, pour it into the fermentation container, pulp recycle;
2. Add the other ingredients to the juice, stir;
3. Install water seal on the container neck (or wear a glove). Carry on in the heat 1-2 months;
4. When fermentation is complete (will precipitate, Wine will be lighter, glove zdmetsya, and stops bubbling with water seal), pour the wine from sediment;
5. Pour wine from the berries of Aronia in capacity upwards, move to a cool place for at least 3 months. Make wine filtration before time, when the precipitate formed stops.