Making a great cherry wine at home

The recipe "Cherry Wine at Home" gives a full description of how you can make a wonderful drink yourself. For cooking, different varieties of cherries are used: white, yellow, pink or black. Cloves, tannins, citric acid, bay leaves and various berries and fruits will help to saturate the taste of wine.

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Pitted cherry wine

To make cherry wine, a recipe without yeast requires the use of unwashed fruit. Natural yeast forms on the surface of the cherry during its growth, thanks to which the wine will ferment without any additives. For cooking, you should prepare about 10 kilograms of cherries. Very dirty berries must be wiped gently with a dry cloth. A kilogram of sugar will give sweets, although this fact can be adjusted according to your taste by increasing or decreasing the grams. Unfortunately, cherries have weak acidity, so citric acid must be added to the drink - 25 grams. The recipe for homemade cherry wine also provides for the use of half a liter of water.

Preparation:

1. Arbitrarily and not diligently get rid of the cherry pits, keeping all the juice obtained at the same time.
2. Mix the pulp with water in a glass container, covering the top with gauze, let it brew for 3 days. Every day, using a wooden spoon, the formed foam should be removed from the surface of the cherry mass.
3. Strain the liquid, getting rid of the pulp, which must be squeezed out well.
4. Mix citric acid and 400 grams of sugar into the resulting juice. Send everything into a vessel with a water seal. If there is no such mechanism, then it is enough to put on a rubber glove on the neck, in the finger of which to make a puncture. Leave the bottle alone at the same room temperature for 4 days.
5. Remove the odor trap and drain the liter of wort into a bowl. Send another 300 grams of sugar there. After mixing thoroughly, pour everything back into the bottle. Close again with a water seal. The recipe "cherry wine" at home involves repeating this procedure after 3 days, adding the remaining 300 grams of sugar.
6. From a half moon to two, fermentation should end. You can determine this moment by looking at the glove, which should deflate. If you have a water seal, then gas will stop escaping from it. At the bottom of the vessel, a sediment will be visible, which needs to be disposed of. For this, without shaking the bottle, carefully drain the future wine into a separate container using a straw.
7. According to the recipe for cherry wine at home, you need to prepare glass bottles, pour the cherry liquid adjusted to taste into them, and seal it tightly. Send for exposure in a cool place, the temperature of which should range from 5 to 16 degrees.
8. After 20 days, get rid of the sediment again with the help of a straw. And so on until the sediment disappears altogether. This is the sign of the readiness of the wine. The term of readiness starts from 3 to 12 months. At this time, the wine must be poured into suitable presentable bottles, tightly closed and stored in a cool place (basement, refrigerator). To reach 12% strength, the wine is aged for 4 years.

You can fix the wine property by adding up to 15% of vodka from the total volume of liquid obtained after active fermentation (point 6).

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Cherry wine with seeds

Cherry pitted wine has an almond flavor. For cooking, you will need a 10 liter container. This volume will take about 6-7 kg of berries. The amount of sugar is optional, it all depends on how many layers of cherries will be laid out in the jar.

Preparation:

1. Place not washed cherries in layers in a jar. Sprinkling each with sugar, and so on to the very top (neck). Do not ram! Close the neck with a nylon cap with holes.
2. After a day, the fermentation process begins. The "raging" cherry juice can be poured through the lid. To do this, it is better to put the jar in a basin, where the flowing liquid will collect. Active fermentation lasts 3 days.
3. You can determine the end of vigorous fermentation by the presence of sediment at the bottom of the jar. The middle of the container should contain cherry wine, and the pulp will float to the top.
4. Thanks to a thin tube, pour the middle liquid part of the contents into a separately prepared container.
5. The wine is already ready to drink. But you can increase the aging process by periodically getting rid of new sediment at the bottom of the bottle.

According to this technology, the jar should be filled strictly to the very top with berries, otherwise, the surface of the cherries in an empty space will be covered with mold.

It is important to know not only how to do wine from cherries, and how to save it in the future. The container should be in a horizontal position and in the dark so that part of the cork is immersed in the wine. This procedure will maximally protect against air penetration into the bottle. If air gets in at the first stages, the glass container must be sent for a 20-minute sterilization procedure. Patience in cooking and quality results!

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