Wine from gooseberries and raspberries. Homemade gooseberry (agrus) wine. An easy way to make wine

Gooseberry wine, which many people make at home, resembles white wine from southern grape varieties with its bouquet. Despite the fact that it acquires full maturity only after a year, or even a year and a half, the wine is very popular among winemakers. Moreover, the fermentation process takes place quite quickly, and you can drink young wine without waiting until it acquires the noble shades characteristic of good grape wines.

Technology features

Gooseberry wine can be prone to disease. If you violate the technology of its preparation, as a result, it can acquire the smell of rotten eggs. It is impossible to drink such a drink, so all the work of the winemaker will go to waste. To prevent this from happening, you need to know some subtleties.

• Gooseberries cannot be taken overripe. The fact is that this berry quickly becomes moldy and deteriorates. Only ripe berries are suitable for winemaking, and even they need to be carefully sorted out so as not to leave a single spoiled or stuck leaf.
• Washing gooseberries is not recommended: they make excellent wine without the addition of wine yeast, if wild yeast is preserved on the surface of the berries.
• It is not worth postponing the start of making gooseberry wine until tomorrow, because during storage it loses its aroma, which will cause the bouquet of future wine to suffer. You need to process the berry on the same day that it was harvested.
• It is unacceptable to strongly dilute gooseberry juice with water, as this will greatly increase the risk of must disease. The maximum allowable amount of water is twice the amount of pure juice obtained from the berries. If you want to get more wine from a small amount of gooseberries, it is better to dilute its juice with currant or apple.

Any wines are obtained from gooseberries, but dessert wines are most valued.

Gooseberry dessert wine: a classic recipe

• gooseberries - 1.5 kg;
• water - 1.5 l;
• sugar - 1 kg.

Cooking method:

• After going through the gooseberries, mash them with a wooden pestle.
• Cook the syrup from the total amount of sugar and water indicated in the recipe.
• Pour the berry with syrup cooled to 30 degrees.
• Cover with cheesecloth and leave to ferment to improve juice separation. Every 8 hours, the mass must be well mixed to avoid souring.
• After 2 days, squeeze the pulp and pour the wort into a clean, dry bottle with a narrow neck. Install a water seal on it. In the absence of such, it is not forbidden to use a rubber glove with a pierced finger - the main thing is that the place of its junction with the neck of the bottle is well smeared and does not let air through.
• After the end of fermentation, do not rush to pour the wine into bottles - it must also settle. When the sediment goes down, and the wine itself becomes transparent, then it's time to bottle it.

Wine bottles should be stored in a horizontal position in a room where the temperature does not exceed 18 degrees.

Gooseberry wine with lemon

• gooseberries - 3 kg;
• lemon - 2 pcs.;
• water - 5 l;
• sugar - 2.5 kg.

Festive video recipe:

Cooking method:

• Sprinkle well-mashed berries with sugar in the amount of 0.75 kg. Let stand for 30 minutes in a warm place, cover with water.
• Place this mass in a fermentation tank and keep it under a water seal for 10 days.
• Cut the lemons into slices, cover with the remaining sugar and let it brew for half an hour in a glass jar.
• After 10 days, put the lemons with sugar into the must bottle through the funnel, return the water seal to its place.
• After another 10 days, pour the wine through a straw into another bottle, trying not to get the pulp into a clean bottle. Close the water seal and wait for the end of fermentation.
• Drain from the sediment, filter well, pour into a bottle, cork it well and place in a cool place for 2-3 weeks until completely clarified.
• Drain again from the sediment and strain, bottle.

According to this recipe, you can get a dessert wine with a pronounced sweet and sour taste, very aromatic.

Gooseberry honey wine

• gooseberries - 5 kg;
• bread - 0.5 kg;
• honey - 0.5 l.

Cooking method:

• Sort the gooseberries, pour the whole berries into a bottle.
• Fill the berries with water, close the bottle with a water seal and put in a warm place.
• After 4 months, cut the bread into small pieces, spread honey on each. Dip the pieces in the bottle into the wort. Install the water seal in its original place. We leave to wander for another 4 months.
• After the specified time, drain the liquid from the sediment and strain several times, bottle.

The process of making wine according to this recipe cannot be called short, but the result is worth the wait.

Blend of gooseberries and red currants

• gooseberries - 3 kg;
• red currant - 1 kg;
• water - 3 l;
• sugar - 2 kg.

Cooking method:

• Boil and cool the syrup.
• Pass the gooseberries and currants through a meat grinder.
• Pour berry puree with syrup, cover with a cloth and put in heat for a week. Stir twice a day so that the berry does not sour.
• Pour into a bottle where the wort will ferment, install a water seal.
• Fermentation will take 7-10 days. After its completion, the wine must be drained from the sediment, filtered and poured into a clean bottle for settling. The wine should settle for three months in a cool place in a well-closed container.
• Pour, filtered, into bottles.

This is one of the fastest options for making gooseberry wine at home.

A sparkling wine

• gooseberries - 3 kg;
• water - 5 l;
• sugar - 2 kg.

Cooking method:

• Pour the sorted, but not washed berries into a bottle, cover with sugar, fill with water heated to 35 degrees.
• Close the bottle with a water seal and place in a warm place for 40 days.
• Drain from the sediment, strain, bottle.
• Cork the bottles and place in the refrigerator for a month.

Homemade wine made according to this recipe resembles champagne. It is not subject to long-term storage.

Gooseberries on cognac

• gooseberries - 4 kg;
• sugar - 2 kg;
• cognac - 0.5 l;
• water - 5 l.

Cooking method:

• Sort and wash the berries, crush them and put in the cold.
• After 4 days, squeeze the juice out of the pulp. Add 1 liter of water to the pulp, stir well and squeeze it again. Combine the juices of the first and second extraction.
• Add sugar to juice and stir. Sugar should be completely dissolved.
• Cover the container with cheesecloth and leave to ferment. Stir the liquid twice a day, add 100 ml of water to it every other day.
• After 2.5–3 months, when intensive fermentation is over, drain the wort from the sediment and pour into a bottle with a water seal.
• Leave the wine to ferment and settle for another 3-4 months, then filter, mix with cognac and leave for another month.

The drink according to this recipe is unusual in taste and stronger than other gooseberry wines.

The range of wines that can be made from gooseberries at home is quite wide: from champagne to fortified. Dessert wine according to the classic recipe and blended wines are especially popular.

Gooseberry is a shrub plant, currant family. The berries of the plant are very useful, contain many vitamins and minerals. No wonder gooseberries are popularly called "northern grapes". A few gooseberries replace the daily dose of vitamin C needed by the body. The gooseberry appeared in Rus' in the 11th century and was then called agryz, four centuries later the plant was called bersen. If a rich harvest of gooseberries was born on your site, then you should definitely try to make homemade wine from it.

Gooseberry wine tastes very similar to white grape wine, although its color, depending on the variety, can vary from golden to pink. Gooseberry wine is especially popular in France, it is valued on a par with grape wine. Any variety of gooseberry is suitable for making wine. Gooseberries for wine should be well ripened, it contains the largest amount of sugar, in different varieties the sugar content is in the range of 5-10%, and the acid is 1.3-1.6%. Overripe and spoiled gooseberries will spoil the taste of the wine and should not be used. Gooseberries should not be washed, as they contain wild yeast on their surface. At home, you can make table and dessert wine from gooseberries and even champagne. Below are proven recipes that are easy to repeat on your own.

Homemade gooseberry juice recipe

To make wine according to this recipe, it is better to use small ripe berries, preferably white, green or yellow. The wine turns out natural (without yeast), very tasty with an interesting bouquet, a strength of 10-12 °. Gooseberry wine is stored at a temperature of 5-10 ° C, maybe up to two years.

Ingredients:

• Gooseberry fruits - 3 kg;
• Sugar - 2 kg;
• Water - 3 liters.

Cooking:

1. Collected gooseberries, clean from leaves and debris, remove spoiled and withered fruits. Using a mixer or pusher, chop, mash the unwashed berries and place the mass in a glass container or an enamel pan.
   
2. Prepare syrup from sugar and water. During boiling, remove the formed foam from the surface, cook the syrup for 5-10 minutes over low heat. Cool the syrup to 20-25°C.
   
3. Pour the syrup into the berry porridge, stir the mass. Close the mouth of the container with gauze. Since the wine is prepared without yeast, it is necessary to start the fermentation process using wild berry yeast. Leave the pulp warm for fermentation for 3-4 days. On the first day, the first signs of fermentation will already begin, a hat will rise from the pulp, a slight hiss and the release of carbon dioxide will begin. Every day 2-3 times a day it is necessary to heat and stir the hat on the surface of the must.
   
4. Squeeze the juice from the pulp through a sieve or colander, squeeze the pulp separately using several layers of gauze. Pour all the juice into a fermentation container, which can be a glass bottle or a plastic food container. It is important not to fill the container to the top, leave room for foam and carbon dioxide. Install a water seal or an ordinary rubber medical glove on the container, in which one finger is pierced with a needle.
   
5. Put the bottle in a warm place with a temperature of 20-25°C. Usually fermentation lasts 30-45 days. You can determine the end of fermentation at the end of gas evolution, the glove puffs out, the water seal stops gurgling. Young wine is partially clarified, a layer of sediment appears at the bottom.
6. Young gooseberry wine is carefully drained from the sediment (decanted) with a thin hose and poured into clean dishes. At this stage, the wine can be sweetened to taste.
7. The container with wine filled under the neck, close the lid and place for fermentation in a cool room, where the temperature is in the range of 10-15 ° C. The maturation process lasts 3-4 months. During this time, it is necessary to drain the wine from the sediment as it forms. The finished wine is bottled, hermetically sealed and sent for storage.

How to fix homemade gooseberry wine

Wine made at home usually has a strength of about 8-12 degrees. To increase the strength during production, you need to use special yeast and increase the amount of sugar. The increase in alcohol in wine contributes to the long-term storage of the drink. Sometimes strong alcohol is added to wine for this: vodka, alcohol, cognac or brandy. The addition of vodka or alcohol stops the fermentation in the wine and acts as a preservative. Fortified gooseberry wine can be stored for several years without loss of quality and taste.

Such a wine will acquire a special aroma if it is aged in an oak barrel, it will look like a good port wine. You can fix the wine prepared according to any recipe. Usually, in order to raise the strength of wine in which 10 ° to 20 °, it is necessary to add 500 ml of alcohol with a strength of 40 degrees per liter of wine. To do this, 0.5 liters of wine are taken, strong alcohol is poured in, and then this mixture is poured into the wine. Then the drink must stand for several days, bottle it. Can be tasted, can be aged in a barrel.

Gooseberry and Lemon Wine Recipe

This wine recipe is very popular among the female audience. Light taste with a refreshing aroma of lemon will conquer many lovers of delicious alcoholic beverages. This wine can be used to prepare various cocktail recipes at home.

Ingredients:

• Gooseberries - 1.5 kg;
• Water - 2.5 l;
• Sugar - 1kg;
• Lemon - 1 pc.

Cooking:

1. Mash the gooseberries cleared of debris into gruel, add 300 grams of granulated sugar. Stir the whole mass and leave warm for half an hour to extract juice.
2. Pour in water, install a water seal or glove on the container and ferment in a warm place for 10 days.
3. Cut the lemon into slices, put them in a clean bowl and sprinkle with the remaining sugar. Add the lemon mixture to the bottle of wine, stir everything under a water seal until complete fermentation.
4. Drain the young wine from the sediment, bottle it, let it age for another 1-2 months and you can enjoy the taste of the original wine.

Gooseberry and red currant wine

The combination of gooseberries and red currants gives the wine a unique taste. The berries complement each other and as a result, according to this recipe, an amazing alcoholic drink is obtained.

Our family has been making grape wine every year for many years. But for the last three years, gooseberry wine has been added, which is prepared at home, and the recipe is quite simple. Gooseberries have a higher acidity than grapes and lower sugar content. Therefore, for drinks from this berry, the addition of sugar and water is mandatory.

From agrus the most delicious, long-stored strong, dessert, liqueur and blended wines are obtained. In addition to fruits and berries, you can add various herbs. Dry wine is stored not so long, but it is light and pleasant on the palate.

I will share several recipes for making delicious gooseberry wine. I'll start with a simple recipe without yeast.

How to make gooseberry wine without yeast: a simple recipe at home

The technology of making this wine involves the use of small green-yellow gooseberries, well ripened, but not overripe.

Product set:

• Gooseberries - 3 kilograms;
• Sugar - 2 kilograms;
• Water - 3 liters.

How to cook:

Peel the berries removed from the bush from leaves, twigs, litter. Remove dust, rotten, dried fruits.

Important! Gooseberries do not wash, to avoid loss of natural yeast.

1. Prepared raw materials must be crushed. This can be done using a pusher, meat grinder or other device. Put the resulting pulp in an enamel pan.
2. Boil sugar with water for several minutes over low heat, removing the resulting foam. Pour the syrup cooled to warm into the berry mass, mix. Cover the dishes with two-layer gauze, put for fermentation for four days in a warm room. Stir the contents twice a day from top to bottom.
3. Now we squeeze the pulp, drain the wort, put it in a glass bottle, which we fill three-quarters of the volume. Put on a rubber medical glove with a finger pierced with a needle or a water seal on the container. To do this, buy a special cover or make a hole in a nylon, insert a tube. Dip the other end into a jar of water. This is done to remove carbon dioxide.
4. Leave the bottle in the kitchen for fermentation, which lasts from one to one and a half months. Determine the end of fermentation by the absence of emerging bubbles or by a deflated glove.
5. The young wine, drained from the sediment, is poured into another container, closed with a lid, transferred to a cool place for maturation, which lasts 3-4 months. The resulting sediment must be drained. The finished home-made wine is bottled and sent for storage. Natural, delicious gooseberry wine can be stored for up to two years.

Advice! Use distilled, purified, bottled water or, in extreme cases, boiled, settled water.

Dessert sweet red gooseberry wine

I will describe my favorite simple recipe for making homemade dessert wine from ripe sweet gooseberries.

• Red gooseberry - 7.1 kg;
• Water - 3.6 liters;
• Sugar - 3.8 kg.

Cooking:

1. We collect ripe, red gooseberries. It will make about 12 liters of dessert wine of a beautiful, pink color. Berries should not be overripe or unripe. We clean the collected fruits from debris, grind the unwashed ones in a convenient way, place them in a glass or enameled container. Pour in the syrup and water, stir, cover with gauze in two additions, leave at 20 degrees for 4 days for fermentation. We mix the wort a couple of times a day, drowning in it a rising hat of pulp.
2. I will tell you more about syrup, sugar and water. To begin with, take 7 cups of sugar, the same amount of water and boil the syrup for 7 minutes, removing the foam. Cool it down to room temperature. Boil the remaining water, also cool. The rest of the sugar will be used later.
3. On the fifth day, we filter the fermented mixture, place it in bottles, install a water seal or put on a rubber glove pierced with a needle. We put in a warm, dark place until the end of fermentation. It will take 35-45 days.
4. After two weeks from the start of the process, you need to add 6 cups of sugar. To do this, using a tube, drain the required amount of wort, dissolve sugar in it, carefully pour back. A week later, we do the same with the remaining sugar.
5. After the completion of active fermentation, we try the young wine for sweetness. You can sweeten it if you wish. Remove the bottles with the wine removed from the sediment to a cooler place for clarification. The maturation process will take three months. During this time, you will have to pour the wine several times into a clean container, when sediment appears. The finished wine is bottled, closed, stored in the cellar.

Reference! The readiness of the wine is determined by the absence of sediment and the transparency of the drink.

Wine from gooseberries with vodka

This recipe is for wine lovers. Usually homemade wine is weak, about 12 degrees. But if you wish, you can add vodka to it, then the strength of home-made wine will increase to 20 degrees.

For manufacturing we need:

• 1.5 kilograms of gooseberries;
• 1 kilogram of sugar;
• 1.5 liters of water;
• Vodka.

The quality of wine largely depends on the berry. Therefore, gooseberries must be ripe, in no case overripe or green. Also, do not take berries that are rotten or moldy. It is advisable to use the gooseberry after it has been removed from the bush, in extreme cases, the berries can lie for no more than a day.

Mash the selected berries or twist in a meat grinder. We need to get gruel from gooseberries.

Attention! The berry should not be washed; natural yeast is on its peel. If the gooseberries are harvested from the ground or dirty, they must be washed and dried. In this case, add a third of a glass of unwashed raisins to the gruel. He will play the role of yeast.

• Now let's make the syrup. Pour sugar into water, put on fire. After the sweet water boils, boil it for five minutes. Stir occasionally and skim off the foam.
• Pour the gooseberry mixture with cold syrup. Mix well, pour into a large saucepan, close the lid. The mixture is left warm for four days, while stirring every day. During this period, we will be able to observe how the fermentation process takes place. The pulp will rise like a hat over the must, and on the fourth day the future wine must be filtered.
• Strained wort is poured into bottles on the shoulders, we install a water seal. We make an incision in the nylon cover, insert the tube, cover the incision with plasticine so that air does not pass. We close the bottle, lower the other end of the tube into a glass of water. We leave the wine warm, the temperature in the room should be 20-25 degrees, for about 30-40 days.
• After the wine stops fermenting, it will be lighter, sediment will appear. Now it can be separated from the sediment by pouring into a clean container. At this point, you can try the drink and decide on the taste. If you think that the wine is sour, you can add sugar. For the strength of the wine, add vodka, at the rate of 100 milliliters per 1 liter of wine. Now we pour the wine into glass bottles, jars. We put in a dark cool place for five months. During this time, a precipitate will appear, the wine must be filtered again.

An excellent drink is ready.

Quick house wine

Good wine takes time. But you can "cheat" and get a pretty tasty wine drink much faster. Take note of the following recipe for making homemade quick gooseberry wine.

• Gooseberry;
• Sugar;
• Water.

Ripe gooseberries are sorted out, not washed, poured into a bottle. We fill 1/3 of the jar with gooseberries, put the same amount of sugar, pour water over the shoulders.

Important! Pour water very carefully, in a thin stream, so that the sugar does not mix with the berry.

We close the jar with a plastic lid, put it in heat. The wine will slowly ferment for a month. After this period, it is necessary to strain the drink through gauze into a glass container. We close the lid tightly, put in the refrigerator or lower it into the basement. The wine matures within two months.

How to make dry wine from agrus: benefits in a glass

I want to offer a recipe for a wonderful dry wine with great taste.

For cooking you will need:

• 1 kilogram of gooseberries;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 1 liter of water.

Harvest gooseberries in dry weather. Remove all unnecessary: ​​leaves, twigs, motes, dust particles, low-quality berries. The fruits should be well ripened, but not overripe. No need to wash.

1. Pass the berries through a juicer, for a better discharge of juice, and place in a container. Make syrup from sugar and water. When cooking, remove the foam.
2. Cool to 20 degrees and pour into gooseberry cake. Tie the dishes with gauze, leave at a temperature of about 20 degrees for several days, periodically stirring the wort to prevent souring.
3. After the start of fermentation, strain the mixture, pour into a glass bottle. Pour the remaining cake with a small amount of water, squeeze. Add secondary juice to the first, install a water seal.

Advice! Instead of water, you can add the juice of any fruit or berry, depending on your preference.

For further fermentation, we send our wine to a dark place where it is warm for about a month. After the end of fermentation, the wine is removed from the sediment, poured into jars, put in a cooler place for maturation, which will last several months.

Sparkling wine: a simple recipe with a glove

A simple recipe with a glove produces a good quality sparkling wine.

Prepare:

• Gooseberries - 3 kilograms;
• Water - 5 liters;
• Sugar - 2 kilograms.

Collected unwashed berries whole place in a jar, pour water heated to body temperature, add sugar. We put on a rubber glove pierced with a needle on a glass container, put it in heat for a month and a half. Then remove the wine from the sediment, pour into bottles. This wine will keep in the refrigerator for about a month.

Gooseberry wine with sourdough

Now I will tell you how to make excellent gooseberry wine according to a simple recipe with homemade sourdough.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups raspberry puree;
• 5 kilograms of red gooseberries;
• Sugar;
• Water.

Starting the processing of berries, you must first prepare the starter. It needs to be done in advance, two weeks in advance. We need well-ripened raspberries, recently picked.

1. Grind unwashed berries to a state of porridge. You need to take enough berries to make two glasses of puree.
2. We add 100 grams of sugar, 1 glass of filtered water to it, mix, pour into a jar, cover with gauze.
3. We put in a warm, dark place.
4. After four days, we remove the cake. You can strain through cheesecloth or a fine sieve. Strained pure juice will be sourdough.
5. Preparing red gooseberries. We remove garbage, green, rotten berries.
6. We turn the gooseberries into porridge, you can resort to the help of a pusher, a meat grinder.
7. Pour in cold boiled water at the rate of 10 cups of gruel - 1 cup of water.
8. Add 300 grams of sourdough, leave in a warm place for three days.
9. Strain the juice, discard the pulp.
10. Pour water in the same amount, pour 100 grams of sugar per liter of drink.
11. We pour the future wine into bottles, put on a medical glove on the neck, piercing it in several places.
12. We leave for a month or a half in a warm room. We are waiting for the fermentation to end, the glove will deflate, and sediment will appear.
13. We filter the wine and bottle it, close it tightly.
14. We go down to the cellar, wait for the wine to ripen for four months. We pass through again.

Now you can treat your guests to a wonderful drink.

An unusual recipe for wine with honey

And finally, an unusual recipe with honey. The wine is prepared for a long time, but very simply.

We will need:

• Gooseberries - 5 kilograms;
• Bread - half a kilogram;
• Honey - half a liter;
• Water - 2.5 liters.

This recipe is unlike any other. It contains no sugar.

1. We put the prepared berries in a bottle, fill it with water, put on a medical glove with a pierced finger, and put it in a warm room.
2. After 4 months, add sliced ​​\u200b\u200bbread, smeared with honey. We leave for another 4 months.
3. After that, we filter, bottle, lower into the cellar.

I advise you to watch the video, where the recipe for wine from ripe sweet berries will be shown and told in detail.

All gooseberry wine recipes are simple, homemade and tested by me personally and my family. The wines differ slightly from each other, but all have excellent taste, aroma, color. I advise, if possible, to prepare these wonderful drinks.

Wine played a major role in Greek culture. And to this day, the composition of Greek wines for scientists is a real mystery. The percentage of alcohol in wines did not exceed 14, this is due to the achievement of concentration in the fermentation process. If this percentage is exceeded, the formation of alcohol decreases. However, according to testimonies, which have come down to our days, such wines were bred, as they more resembled herbal essences. Such a complex composition made them more intoxicating. Greek winemakers have successfully used honey in their practice. This is due to the high level of sweetness, which gave the wine too much strength.
When preparing homemade wine in the country, gooseberries are gaining popularity. In terms of taste, this wine is similar to grape wine. When making it, a large variety of berries from yellow to red is used. American gooseberries are of particular interest in the production of wines from the fruit. Gooseberries are used in the manufacture of dessert wine. Gooseberries are rarely blended with other berries.

Homemade wine recipe #1. With double push.

In the process of wine production, the berries are selected green and not rotten. After harvesting, the berries are sorted and ground. After squeezing, the berries are left in a cellar or other cool place for 3 days. After cooling, press down. The juice is squeezed out in 2 doses. At the first spin try to get

the maximum amount of juice. The remaining pomace is mixed with water and wort. For the second time, they let it stand for 3 days and squeeze it again. With a double extraction, the juice is rich and fragrant.
It is worth remembering that it is not recommended to dilute the wort with water. The proportion of dilution is not higher than 50%, as this increases the risk of wine infection. Most often, white currant berries are used for dilution.

Recipe for homemade wine number 2. Wine made from gooseberries.

Ingredients:
Gooseberries - 1000 grams.
Water - 1.400 liters.
Sugar - 0.800 grams.
Gooseberries are peeled and washed. Grind and add sugar syrup. Leave for 4 days. It is necessary to stir regularly, from the very bottom, so as not to stagnate. After the wine has matured, it must be pressed. Next, mixed with the remnants of sugar syrup, leave the must to ferment. When the fermentation is over, the wine is bottled and allowed to age for 5-6 months.

Homemade wine recipe number 3. Wine with gooseberries and currants.

Ingredients:
Gooseberry fruits - 3,000 grams
Currant fruits - 1,000 grams
Water - 3 liters
Sugar - 2,000 grams.
Gooseberries and currants are washed and sorted. Twist through a medium meat grinder. We prepare a syrup from sugar with the addition of water and mix with the resulting mixture. We fill the container for fermentation with the resulting mixture on? and keep warm for 6 days. During the fermentation period, the mixture is stirred regularly. At the end of the period, pour into another container and cork with water constipation. The fermentation period in this form is another 7 days. By the end of the 7th day, the sediment remains at the bottom, and the wine has a light transparent color.
The aging time of the finished wine is 4 months.

Recipe for homemade wine No. 4. A simple wine recipe.

Ingredients:
Gooseberries - 1.500 kilograms.
Sugar - 1000 grams.
Water - 1.500 liters.
Ripe berries are well ground by hand. In this recipe, it is not recommended to use a blender or meat grinder. The resulting mass is transferred to a glass jar.

Pour the sugar syrup prepared in advance with water into the berries. For earlier and more efficient fermentation, sugar must be added in two passes.

The resulting mass is mixed and left at a temperature of 20 degrees for 8 days. Near? the jars must be empty so that the juice does not overflow during the fermentation process.

During the entire fermentation time, the mass must be mixed and shaken. After 8 days, you need to separate the juice from the fruit.

This can be done with a tube (use rubber), or with a coarse filter (strain). The resulting juice is bottled for further, the so-called 2nd fermentation.
In this process, the bottle must be corked very tightly. It is advisable to use corks made from natural materials. If such a cork is not available, you can use rubber or wood. A small hole is made in the middle of the cork for the tube. The other end of the tube is lowered into a container with water. Such a process is necessary to remove the carbon dioxide released during fermentation, and the air from the outside cannot enter the bottle.
After 6 weeks, sediment will settle at the bottom of the bottle. Already finished wine is poured into a container and sealed with a cork. The wine is aged for two to five months. The strength of the wine is 18 degrees. The shelf life of gooseberry wine is 1 year. Further storage may spoil the taste. The optimum temperature for storage is 10 - 12 degrees.

To prepare table wines, after pressing unripe or ripe berries, water is added to the mass in a ratio of 1: 1 to the resulting juice. 0.200 grams of sugar is also added to each liter of juice.
Sometimes nitrogenous nutrition is used in the process of making wine. In pharmacies you can buy ammonium chloride. It is used to speed up the fermentation process.
A drink such as wine is used both as a treatment and as a drink of pleasure.

Gooseberry wine is especially popular among amateur winemakers. It is valued on a par with aristocratic grape wine, since the rich aromatic bouquet and delicate rich taste of gooseberry alcohol are very similar to homemade grape alcohol, but the former is easier and easier to prepare.

If you have harvested a rich harvest of gooseberries, then you should definitely try to start making wine, since at home you can quite simply make an amazing table intoxicating or champagne from gooseberries. Let's look at a few noteworthy recipes.

Absolutely any variety of gooseberries is suitable for making a wine base.. The main thing is that the berries are ripe, because they contain the maximum amount of sugar and acid. Spoiled or overripe fruits will spoil the special taste of the wine. The color of gooseberry homemade alcohol changes depending on your desire: if you want to get pale pink wine, use red varieties of berries, if amber-golden - white varieties.

First of all, I want to offer a simple recipe for wine made from freshly squeezed gooseberry juice, focused on home conditions and does not require special equipment for winemaking: you only need a regular medical glove.

According to this recipe, for the production of wine of the highest standard, it is best to use ripe fruits, preferably yellow, white or green varieties. Alcohol turns out to be exceptionally tasty and strikes with an interesting aromatic bouquet, and its strength is from 11 to 13 revolutions.

This drink is stored at a temperature of 6-11 degrees for up to two to three years.

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Gooseberry and Lemon Wine Recipe

An alcoholic drink made according to this recipe is incredibly popular among the female half of society. Delicate taste with light refreshing notes of lemon will win the hearts of many women.

Such a drink will be an excellent basis for creating original cocktails that are easy to drink, refresh, invigorate and give pleasure.

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Gooseberry and red currant wine recipe

By following exactly the recommendations described in this recipe, you will prepare an amazing high quality red wine. The perfect combination of red currant and gooseberry enriches the alcoholic drink with an indescribably unique taste.

Both berries perfectly complement each other and the result is a noble spirit that has a refreshing and invigorating effect.

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Manufacturing process

Gooseberry wine recipe video

Video #1. In this video, the master winemaker will thoroughly explain and demonstrate how to make a great white wine with an interesting taste with his own hands. You will find many useful tips, recommendations and instructions.

Video #2. This video is presented by an experienced winemaker who shares his own variation of making gooseberry rosé. The master shows the entire process of making a drink from A to Z, and finally tastes the finished product and describes its qualities.

https://youtu.be/cht7OLQUd7I

Helpful information

• Without a doubt, you will be interested in the taste and aromatic qualities of “strawberry wine”, which can be consumed as an independent drink, and also used to improve the tasting characteristics of intoxicating fruit and berry drinks without a pronounced aroma.
• Be sure to find out what is unusual in taste - plum wine - with a wonderful spicy aroma, which makes it indispensable for seasoning meat and fish dishes, as well as a wonderful base for making various cocktails.
• It is difficult to convey in words how fragrant and fragrant apple wine turns out, be sure to try it.
• For the staff, I advise you to pay attention to the deliciously delicious cherry wine.

These are interesting, generation-tested recipes most often used by experienced winemakers. Describe your versions of making this magical wine in the comments. Good luck and success in winemaking.