Homemade Chokeberry Wine

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Aronia is known for its many health benefits. It contains a number of B vitamins, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), essential elements such as iron, copper, manganese and others. Contains all types of sugars and pectins.

Thanks to all this, the benefits of chokeberry are not small, but not everyone loves it in its natural form, that is, straight from the branch, as it has great astringency and viscosity. In addition, it bears abundant fruit and is good to store for the winter without losing its valuable qualities. One such method is homemade chokeberry wine.

Chokeberry wine is delicious and fragrant, made by your own hands. In addition, the dark ruby drink maintains good health. A number of unique properties pass from the fruit into the wine, turning it into a medicine for high cholesterol, low immunity, blood pressure spikes, fragility or looseness of the walls of blood vessels.

There is only one but. For to make chokeberry wine useful, should be drunk extremely moderately - one tablespoon 30 minutes before meals (daily) or not more than 75-100 ml per day.

The preparation of wine from chokeberry it is not difficult. The stages are generally identical to the preparation of any other house wine: fruit picking, preparation, mashing, fermentation, filtration and maturation. But there are a number of subtleties and nuances, without which instead of real taste, you can get a drink with questionable taste, color and most importantly - benefits.

How to make a good wine from chokeberry? There are as many recipes for chokeberry wine as there are recipes for any other wine from any other fruit. But the stages of its preparation are repeated in virtually every recipe. That is why we will consider the technology of making black chokeberry wine based on a classic recipe.

Components:

- 10 kg of chokeberry fruit;

- 2 kg of granulated sugar (or 1 cup per 1 kg of fruit);

- 100 grams of unwashed raisins;

- 2 liters of pre-boiled and cooled water.

Technology and nuances

First, we choose vessels for winemaking at all stages. They must be either enameled (without damage) or glass.

On a dry and preferably sunny day we collect the fruits of already well ripened chokeberry. Weigh them and without washing mix the required amount with your hands or a wooden press. The resulting puree is placed in a container with a capacity of at least 10 liters. Add sugar (1 kg) to the table and add a handful of unwashed raisins. Stir again, cover and place in a warm place for 7 days. The optimum temperature will be 19-24 degrees.

At the same time do not forget about the detail - you need to stir the mixture daily so as not to mold. After a week, the chokeberry syrup and the porridge will finally separate from each other, and foam will appear on the surface.

First, you will work with the pulp: it must be collected and squeezed through cheesecloth (or press). But do not throw away the rest of the pulp, it will still be needed.

Then work with the juice: filter through gauze all that has been obtained, and pour it into a vessel where the wine will ferment. On this vessel you mount a water seal on top or put a simple rubber glove purchased from a pharmacy.

At the same time, pour the remaining fruit pulp with lukewarm water and add the second half of the sugar, mix everything very carefully. Cover and leave for another 7 days in the same warm place without access to light, not forgetting to stir daily.

After 7 days, filter the second portion, filled with water and already swollen, without squeezing - the pulp has already given everything valuable to the water. Now you need to pour the resulting liquid into the vessel, where the fermentation process is already underway. To do this, you must remove the glove, pour the liquid, put on a glove.

The whole diligent work consists in the fact that after mixing the liquids the future wine should be filtered every two days by draining it through a thin rubber hose (as from a dropper) into a clean container and putting on a glove again. Repeat this process until the fermentation stops and the wine is completely free of lees.

When you get a clean and ready drink, it should be bottled, sealed and sent for maturation for 2-4 months in a cool, dark place. The resulting homemade wine from chokeberry will surprise you with a pleasant taste and a luxurious bouquet of aromas, will give you health and will undoubtedly complete the collection of every wine lover. Its alcohol content is usually about 12%. You can store it for up to 5 years.

The preparation of chokeberry wine can be done faster, but we can not talk about the benefits of such a drink. True healthy wine requires time, patience and diligence.