Strawberry wine at home: recipe 

Strawberries are a delicate berry, so after sorting, crumpled waste always remains. They are not suitable for jams and compotes. But there is no need to throw away fragrant strawberries. It is quite suitable for making strawberry wine at home, as long as there is no mold on the berries. A drink according to any recipe turns out to be fragrant and tasty, if the correct manufacturing technology is used.

Strawberry wine at home is an ideal way to use berries. Moreover, you can make a drink not only from garden varieties, but also from wild strawberries. In the finished bright red drink, there is a delicate aroma of berries, an inimitable taste that cannot be confused with anything. How to make homemade wine from strawberries will be discussed in the article. And we will tell you not only about recipes using fresh berries for making strawberry wine. Unexpected discoveries await you.

Berry preparation

Homemade strawberry wine, whether from garden or forest fruits, knowing the recipe is easy to prepare. There is only one caveat – the berries are in no hurry to give their own juice, which makes fermentation difficult, and this also affects the coloring of the wine. But thanks to the ingredients added to the wort, this problem is successfully solved at home.

So, if you decide to make strawberry wine yourself, then you need to know how to prepare the berries:

1. You perfectly understand that strawberries and wild strawberries will “hang” to the ground, so it is impossible to avoid the washing procedure. Although this is washed off part of the natural, so-called wild yeast.
2. The fact is that the earth that has fallen into strawberry wine will spoil not only the taste of the finished drink. Most often, putrefactive processes develop during fermentation, all your work will go down the drain.
3. It is best to wash strawberries or strawberries with a colander, dipping the berries in water. But before the hygienic procedure, the berries must be sorted out, separating those unsuitable for work, namely those on which rot has appeared.
4. After that, the strawberries are kneaded with hands or a rolling pin so that there are no whole berries left.

Various wine recipes

Today, strawberry wine can be purchased in specialized stores. But such a dessert drink is not cheap. Therefore, we suggest that you use the recipes below and make strawberry wine with your own hands at home. And it is not necessary to use fresh berries. Jam and frozen fruits are suitable. The main thing is to follow the recommendations of the recipe, observe the proportions, be patient, and you will succeed!

We follow traditions

And now about how to make strawberry wine at home according to a traditional recipe.

To do this, stock up on a minimum of ingredients:

• berries of garden strawberries or wild strawberries – 3 kg;
• sugar – 2 kg;
• raisins – 100 g;
• chilled boiled water – 3 liters.

How to make homemade wine

Cooking steps step by step:

1. Step one. To make strawberry wine according to a recipe at home, juice is needed, but, as we have already noted, a whole strawberry gives it reluctantly. That is why the sorted and washed berries are crushed in a large basin. It is best to do this with your hands to separate the fibers of the berries and not damage the seeds. Otherwise, strawberry wine will taste bitter.

   

2. Step two. Dissolve half of the sugar in hot water (be sure to boil) and cool the syrup to about 30 degrees. Higher temperatures are detrimental to wild yeast: fermentation will be slow or not start at all. Tap water for making strawberry wine according to any recipe is not recommended even after settling, because it contains chlorine.
3. Step three. Then add crushed strawberry mass and raisins. This ingredient cannot be washed, so as not to wash off the whitish coating – wild yeast.
4. Step four. Pour the mass into the fermentation bottle. The top of the container must be free, as foam and carbon dioxide will rise to the top.

   

   We put the container with strawberry wine in a warm and dark corner, covered with gauze so that insects do not get in. The wort must be stirred so that the pulp is not always at the top.

   The initial stage of making strawberry wine at home:

   Homemade strawberry wine – a simple recipe (Part1)

5. Step five. We leave the container alone for five days, then add the remaining sugar and put it in the dark again. Experienced winemakers do not recommend pouring sugar into a container. It is better to pour sand into a cup and add a little fermented must. And after dissolving the syrup, pour it into the bottle. We put a water seal or a medical rubber glove on the bottle and send it for re-fermentation.

   

6. Step six. After some time, the fermentation process will begin to weaken. Now you need to strain the strawberry pulp and again put the wine for further fermentation in a cooler dark place, all with the same water seal. After a month and a half, a sediment will appear in homemade strawberry wine, and it will become light.
7. Step seven. As a rule, young wine is ready in 55-60 days. By this time, strawberry wine at home should be completely removed from the sediment.

Wine from frozen berries

Strawberries do not grow in any region of Our Country. Most often, buyers see it frozen. Therefore, our readers often wonder if it is possible to make homemade wine from strawberries after defrosting.

The answer is unequivocal – yes. Although a good strawberry wine will turn out if you take into account a number of nuances:

1. Defrosting strawberries is an important point that affects the quality of the future wine. Berries must not be poured with boiling water or used for thawing in a microwave oven. The process should take place naturally. You take the berry out of the chamber and leave it overnight in the refrigerator. Remove in the morning to let the strawberries come to room temperature.
2. If you decide to make wine from wild strawberries or garden strawberries, then you do not need to mix them, because they have different fermentation periods.

This simple recipe does not cause any difficulties even for beginner winemakers. To make homemade strawberry wine you will need:

• 2 liter of boiled water;
• 10 grams of powdered yeast;
• 3 kg of strawberries;
• half-liter bottle of vodka;
• 2 kg of granulated sugar.

Steps:

1. According to the recipe, we knead the thawed berry in a basin and heat it slightly, then put it in a glass bottle.

   

2. Add sugar and yeast, mix well. We close with a water seal or pull a glove over the neck. Fermentation should take place in warmth and without exposure to sunlight.

   

3. After 30 days, remove the pulp and pour the young wine into a new container, without touching the sediment. The best way to do this is with a tube. We filter the intoxicating liquid and pour in 500 ml of vodka. Fortified wine will brew for another month. After that, we pour it into sterile bottles.

Wine from jam

It often happens that strawberry jam begins to ferment, it is impossible to eat it. But throwing away such a valuable product is not worth it. After all, this is an ideal ingredient for making strawberry wine at home.

What we need to prepare:

• a liter of water and jam;
• 100 grams of raisins.

Wine recipe – preparation

1. We spread strawberry jam in a three-liter jar and fill it with water. Then add raisins in the amount indicated in the recipe. It is not recommended to wash it, so as not to destroy wild yeast.
2. We cover the container with a lid and put it in a warm, but dark corner for ten days.
3. Fermentation will be intense, so the pulp will be at the top. Pour the liquid from the jar into a saucepan, strain from the pulp. We also squeeze it with gauze, and add the juice from it back to the jar.

   

4. We put on gloves or a special shutter on a three-liter container and remove it again for 30 days.

   

5. After a month, sediment will appear at the bottom of the jar. This is the yeast that needs to be removed from the wine, otherwise we get wine vinegar instead. Any recipe for homemade wine involves removing from the sediment. How to do it right, we showed in the video above.

Ready young wine is poured into sterile bottles and sent to a cool place for maturation.

And now a video on how to make berry wine from wild strawberries (strawberries) at home:

Let’s share secrets

We talked about some options for obtaining wine at home. I would also like to tell you about important secrets:

1. For making homemade strawberry wine, the time of year does not matter, since strawberries in any condition can be used for this.
2. Young wine must be hermetically sealed. You can roll it into jars or bottles. But in the latter case, there may be a problem with traffic jams. You can use the old ones that store-bought wine was corked. It is enough to throw the cork into boiling water – it will become soft and obedient. Wax is poured into the hole from the corkscrew or the cork is sealed with several layers of adhesive tape.
3. Label strawberry wine bottles so you know exactly which drink to try first and which one to age.
4. Wine made from wild strawberries or wild strawberries has a brighter taste and refined aroma. But it will require a little more sugar to cook it, since the acid content in forest fruits is higher than in garden berries.

We wish you successful preparations. Send us your recipes for strawberry wine, we will wait. After all, each winemaker has his own “highlights” in the preparation of homemade intoxicating drinks.