Wine from gooseberry to taste almost not inferior to the grape. And if you have a rich harvest of gooseberries at your country house, be sure to try to make homemade wine. For this purpose, varieties with large, sweet yellow or red berries are more suitable. Wine from overgrown gooseberry is dull and tasteless, so it is very important to remove the berries from the bush in time, and then let them in. In a day the gooseberry will start to deteriorate, and the divine drink will not turn out any more. Recipes of homemade wines from gooseberry are very diverse. Prepare, as a rule, dessert and fortified varieties.
Homemade wine from red gooseberry
Ingredients:
- gooseberries - 1.5 kg;
- sugar - 1 kg;
- water - 1,5 kg.
Preparation
Gooseberry, press a wooden pestle and put it in a glass bottle. Boil the water, fill it with sugar, and prepare the syrup. When it cools, fill the berries. We make sure that there is room for fermentation, and the mixture does not fill the vessel more than 2/3. We tie a neck with gauze and put it for a week in a dark cool place (16-18 ° C). Every day the wort is mixed.
Isolated juice filter through gauze in another container, plug a stopper in the center of which we make a hole for the rubber tube. We put the other end into a jar of water. So, as carbon dioxide is fermented, carbon dioxide will escape, and air will not enter the bottle. Otherwise, instead of sweet wine, we get vinegar.
When in some days the precipitate will fall out, and the liquid becomes transparent, we pour the wine on bottles and stand for another couple of months. After you can enjoy yourself with gooseberry wine, and treat your friends. Moreover, to store more than a year this drink is not recommended - its taste can greatly deteriorate.
Recipe for homemade wine from gooseberry honey
Ingredients:
- gooseberries (red) - 5 kg;
- bread - 0,5 kg;
- honey - 0,5 kg.
Preparation
Ripe gooseberry is sorted so that there are no spoiled berries. We rinse with running water, let it dry and fall asleep into the bottle. Fill completely with cold boiled water. Leave to wander for 4 months.
Rye bread cut into pieces and generously smear honey, let's dry and add to the berries. We close the bottle with a valve, through which carbonic acid will escape, and we remove the wine in a dark place for another 4 months.
After the liquid is filtered, and the home wine can be drunk immediately. For longer storage, if left from the first tasting, bottled. The optimum temperature is 8-12 ° C.
Preparation of house wine from gooseberry on cognac
Ingredients:
- gooseberries (red) - 4 kg;
- sugar - 2 kg;
- cognac - 2 tbsp.
Preparation
We sort out the berries, rinse them, let them dry and transfer them to an enameled vessel of the appropriate size. We knead gooseberries with a wooden pestle and put them away for 4 days in a cool place.
Then, the isolated juice is poured into a bottle, and the mixture is poured with a liter of warm boiled water, mixed and squeezed into the same container, to the main juice. We add sugar, we stir until it dissolves completely. Cover with gauze and leave "wander" for 3-4 months. All this time every four days we pour half a glass of cold boiled water.
When the process of basic fermentation is over, bury the bottle with a lid with a valve. In this condition, the wine will mature 4-5 months. The settled wine is poured into another bottle, we add cognac and we maintain it for another month. After the drink can be bottled.
Homemade wine from gooseberry and red currant
Ingredients:
- gooseberries - 3 kg;
- currant red - 1 kg;
- sugar - 2 kg;
- water - 3 liters.
Preparation
All berries are sorted, washed. We separate the currant from the petioles and let the berries pass through the meat grinder along with the gooseberry. Boil water and dissolve sugar. Fill this syrup with mashed berries. The container in which fermentation passes must not be filled more than 3/4. Cover it with gauze and leave it in a warm place for a week. Do not forget to stir occasionally. When the precipitate comes out, and the wine becomes light and transparent, we pour it into bottles, clog it and stand in a dark cool place for 2-3 months. After this period, the young wine from currant and gooseberry is ready for consumption.