Chokeberry (chokeberry) is a tasty and tart berry, which is very valuable for home winemaking. However, the aromatic black-purple fruit lacks juiciness and acidity to make it a strong enough drink. You can make wine from chokeberry in apple juice, then chokeberry will give the taste of the final product strength and depth, alcohol - the necessary degree.
Rowan wine: preparation of raw materials and a water seal
To make wine from chokeberry in apple juice, you need to pick ripe apples, but not softened to the state of "potatoes". The fruit should be thoroughly rinsed, cored, sliced and passed through a juicer.
For a ten-liter glass bottle filled with freshly squeezed juice "up to the shoulders", 1 kg of chokeberry will be enough. Ripe chokeberry must be kneaded with a wooden pestle to the state of gruel and mixed with apple juice, then add granulated sugar to the mixture at the rate of 200 g per liter of liquid.
It is important that when the wine is fermented at home, the drink does not overflow from the container, therefore, you need to put on a rubber glove or make a simple water seal on the neck of the bottle. It is a sealed lid with a hole and a rubber tube, the end of which is dipped into a dish with water standing next to it.
The presence of mountain ash will accelerate the fermentation of apple juice, while the mashed berry will become a good absorbent and will absorb the suspension - homemade chokeberry wine will become transparent.
Filtration and bottling of rowan wine
After about a month and a half, the fermentation of rowan wine on apple juice will stop. The resulting young drink must be carefully drained with a hose, tasted and sugar added to taste. To stop the wine fermentation process at home, add 50 g of vodka or 25 g of alcohol to the entire volume of liquid, and then let the drink settle for a couple of weeks.
At the end of this stage, rowan wine must be poured into clean bottles, corked and sent to storage in a cellar or cold storage room. Chokeberry wine on apple juice turns out slightly tart, pleasant sweet and sour taste and dark red color. Using the same technology, you can make an alcoholic drink on apple juice with irga, bird cherry and red mountain ash.
