Wine from elderberry berries: 3 recipes at home

Wine from elderberries is obtained for an amateur. But the aroma and taste are very refined, but you should adhere to the entire technological process, otherwise nothing will work.

Elderberry wine

Ingredients

  1. Elderberries – 1 kg

  2. Sugar – 1 kg of sugar

  3. Water – 3 liters of water

  4. Citric acid – 5 g

  5. Cloves – 4 g

  6. piece of cinnamon

  7. A bag of wine yeast or 150 ml of raisin starter

Method of preparation

  1. Rinse the berries, peel the stalks and crush.

  2. Add 100 g of sugar, citric acid and steam 2 liters of boiling water.

  3. Stir, add spices and cook for 15 minutes.

  4. After cooling, strain through a clean cloth, squeeze the juice and pour into a bottle.

  5. Add sugar syrup (proportion 900 g of sugar per 1 liter of water).

  6. Then add the yeast and close the bottle with a fermentation cork or water seal.

  7. After the end of fermentation, drain the liquid from the sediment, leave a little more time for fermentation and pour into bottles.

Elderflower wine

Ingredients

  1. Elderberry inflorescences – 10 pcs.

  2. Sugar – 1 kg

  3. Water – 4 L

  4. Lemon – 2 pcs.

  5. Packet of wine yeast

Method of preparation

  1. Rinse the flowers, remove the pedicels and allow the water to drain.

  2. Wash the lemons thoroughly, pour over boiling water, peel (optional), cut into slices and remove the seeds.

  3. Then place the flowers in a bottle, pour warm sugar syrup, add lemons and wine yeast.

  4. Close the bottle with gauze and leave for fermentation. After a week, drain the liquid with a hose, strain it and put it back for fermentation, closing the vessel with a fermentation shutter.

  5. After fermentation is complete, pour the wine into bottles and cork. The wine is very pleasant in taste.

Wine made from elderberry juice

Method of preparation

  1. Dilute the juice from mature elderberries with water (in a ratio of 1: 2) and cook until bitterness decreases.

  2. Then, for each liter of liquid mixture, add 250 g of sugar, 10 g of citric acid and 0,3 g of ammonium phosphate.

  3. Place the mixture in a bottle under a water seal and keep at room conditions until the release of gas bubbles stops, and then strain, filter and bottle. Wine bottles should only be stored horizontally.

Relevance: 22.09.2018

Tags: Wine and vermouth, Wine recipes

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