There are fruitful years for fragrant strawberries, when I ate enough with all my household and friends, I canned jam, jam and compote for the winter, I froze it, dried it, and the strawberries keep growing and growing. Pies, cakes and cocktails are bored. It's time to move on to something original. For example, strawberry wine.
Possessing a pleasant aroma and taste, rich burgundy-red color, strawberry wine is suitable both for treating ladies at a festive feast, and for making cocktails, soaking biscuits, decorating desserts.
Fortified Strawberry Wine Recipes
1 way. For its preparation, a glass container is useful - a large jar of 15 liters and a special plastic lid for fermenting wine. For 3-4 kg of strawberries, you should take 2 kg of granulated sugar and 4-5 liters of clean drinking water of good quality. Fill the jar 2/3 with berries, cover with sugar and fill with water so that it is 5 centimeters below the edge of the container. Close the lid for infusing wine.
Pour water into the lid itself to determine the beginning of the fermentation process: as soon as the water begins to boil in it, you should put the jar in the sun. After 20 days, when the wine stops playing and brightens, you need to strain it, add a glass of granulated sugar and again, with a lid on, put to ferment. After a week or two, when the fermentation process is complete, the wine will brighten, gently strain again without shaking the sediment, and fix with two tablespoons of vodka for half a liter of drink.
Method 2: Wash a kilogram of fresh strawberries, peel off the stalks. Put on a towel and let dry. Grind the berries in a blender or rub through a sieve. Add a kilogram of granulated sugar to the resulting puree and pour half liters of hot water over it. After stirring, pour into a high-necked vessel and place in a warm place. After 5 days, remove the foam and strain the drink through gauze folded in several layers or paper filters. Add half a liter of good vodka, mix and pour into bottles, which are removed for a week in a dark, cold place, after which the product is ready for use. It is better to store it in the refrigerator.
Semi-dry strawberry wine recipes
For 2 kg of berries, 400 g of sugar is taken. Strawberries are thoroughly cleaned of debris and stalks, washed, dried and chopped with a pusher or blender at low speed. Sugar is added to the mashed berry mixture, mixed, and the mass is transferred to a bottle for making homemade wine. Its neck is tied with gauze, and it is placed in a sunny warm place. On about the third day, the pulp that has emerged signals the need to drain the drink into another container with a water seal and leave for 3 weeks to ferment. After that, the bank is rearranged to a cool place for another month. Towards the end of the term, the wine is checked for clarification. When this comes, the drink is carefully bottled with a rubber hose and gauze or paper filter, so as not to raise the sediment. Glass containers are placed in a cool place for a week, after which the wine can be tasted.
