Experienced winemakers create many signature homemade flavored wine recipes. Truly unique raw materials for the production of such drinks are apples - they do not have an overly intense taste, their juice gratefully accepts a variety of additives for taste and smell. It is a real pleasure to prepare flavored apple wine for the true gourmet. The widest scope for experimentation is provided.
Apple Wine Recipe on Orange Peels: Preparation
To make high quality flavored apple wine, carefully select the raw materials. Take ripe, but not softened fruit, rinse and cut into slices, separating the core and seeds. Pass the apples through a juicer. It is most convenient to prepare homemade wine in a special 10-liter bottle, filling it up to the shoulders with liquid. Add granulated sugar to the container at the rate of 200 g per liter of apple juice and stir everything.
Pull a rubber glove over the neck of the bottle or make a water seal: a sealed cap with a hole and a rubber tube, the end of which is dipped into a water bottle next to it. So during the fermentation of apple wine, the liquid will not pour out of the container. Separately prepare the orange peel aromatic tincture: pour the fresh citrus peel with alcohol or vodka in a glass, well-sealable container.
How to flavor apple wine
After a month and a half or two, the fermentation of the wine will stop - the release of carbon dioxide will end and the suspension will precipitate. If the liquid has become transparent, it must be carefully poured into another container using a hose, being careful not to raise the sediment. Try the strained young drink, add granulated sugar to taste if necessary. Pour in the orange peel tincture.
Typically, a 10-liter fermentation tank produces 7-8 liters of wine. For this volume, it is enough to measure 100-150 g of flavoring for alcohol or 200-250 g of vodka tincture. Leave the flavored apple wine in a glass container for 2 weeks, then bottle it and store it in a dry cellar or cellar. You should have an alcoholic beverage with a pleasant citrus flavor and aroma, while the natural golden color of apple wine will take on an orange tint.
How else can you flavor apple wine?
According to the described recipe for homemade wine, you can prepare alcohol with alcoholic or vodka tinctures on tarragon, oregano, lemongrass leaves and many other combinations of aromas at the request of the winemaker.
It is also possible to flavor apple wine at the preparatory stage of winemaking. It is enough to pour a small amount of fruits with a pronounced taste in sugar, such as raspberries, irga, bird cherry, chokeberry. Add the resulting gruel to freshly squeezed apple juice at the rate of 5-15% of the natural flavor of the total wine.
