Raspberry wine
Description
The drink is quick and easy to prepare. Besides traditional grapes, wine can be made from various berries. Raspberry is an excellent choice. If you have at least five kilograms of fresh, fully ripe berries, you can confidently start the process. No special equipment is required—it's very simple and accessible for anyone at home. Serve chilled.
Instructions
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Step 1
1. Gather the berries. There's no need to wash them—they should be dry! Pass the raspberries through a meat grinder, add 500 grams of sugar and water at room temperature. Mix well and leave to ferment for 6-7 days at a temperature of 19-20 degrees.
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Step 2
2. Fermentation is a very important stage, and it needs to be monitored. If the juice settles down and the pomace forms on top, everything is going as it should. The next stage is "aeration." The wine needs to be transferred a couple of times from one container to another. Then add a little more sugar and mix well.
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Step 3
3. Add ammonium chloride and let the wine ferment for another week. After that, separate the juice from the pomace and add a little more sugar. At this same stage, prepare the lid by making a hole in it for the tube.
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Step 4
4. Pour the future wine into a jar, screw on the lid, and insert one end of a tube into the jar and the other end into a container with water. Store the wine in a dark, cool place. After a week, aerate the wine again, this time using a hose. Put one end of the hose into the wine jar, and suck on the other end to start the process. Transfer the wine by placing the containers at a distance from each other, allowing it to absorb air.
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Step 5
5. The wine needs to be left to stand for about a month, periodically airing it and decanting the sediment that forms.
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Step 6
6. After that, you can pour it into bottles and store in a dark and cool place for a couple of months.