Do not know where else to attach a generous harvest, or do you just adore a healthy berry in all its manifestations? For lovers of a rich, tart taste, we offer 3 simple recipes for making homemade blackcurrant wine. Here is both benefit and pleasure for you!
1. Classic black currant wine
The easiest homemade wine recipe for which you only need three ingredients!
You will need: 4 kg of black currant, 6 l of water, 2 kg of sugar.
Preparation:
1. Sort out the berry, get rid of all the debris and leaves, but you don't need to wash;
2. Grind black currants with a blender, in a meat grinder or simply by hand;
3. Transfer the berry to a glass container;
4. Dissolve half of the sugar in warm boiled water;
5. Pour the syrup so that the contents take up about 2/3 of the volume - no more;
6. Put on the container a rubber glove with a hole in one of the fingers, and put the wine in a dark place;
7. Stir the mixture once a day, and after 4 days filter from the remaining berries and pour it back into the jar;
8. At this stage, taste the future wine and add sugar, but stir it in with a wooden spatula - not with metal;
9. Remove the wine for three weeks in a warm, cool place, then filter and bottle again. Ready!
2. Homemade black currant wine with raisins
Raisins accelerate fermentation and add subtle notes to the wine aftertaste.
You will need: 5 kg of black currant, 10 glasses of sugar, 10 glasses of water, 50 grams of raisins.
Preparation:
1. Sort out the berries and crush them so that no whole remains at all;
2. Pour cold water into the same container and stir well;
3. Gradually add sugar and stir, and at the very end, raisins;
4. Pour the wine into the jars, wrap it with a thick cloth or cover it with a lid;
5. Take the wine to a dark place, but stir once a day to avoid mold;
6. After a week, filter the mixture and carefully squeeze out all the juice from the berry mass;
7. Pour wine into glass jars, cover them with latex gloves with a punctured finger;
8. Do not throw out the rest of the berries, but add a little more sugar and water, and put it cool for a week;
9. After the indicated time, filter it and pour it into glass jars with gloves in the same way as the first batch;
10. After another week, finally strain both batches of wine, combine and bottle.
3. Homemade blackcurrant wine with yeast
This recipe requires special wine yeast, which speeds up the fermentation process!
You will need: 6 kg of black currant, 3 kg of sugar, water, 3 bags of wine yeast.
Preparation:
1. Sort out the berry, get rid of the debris and crush it without rinsing;
2. Add 3 liters of water to the berry mass and leave to stand for about an hour;
3. Boil a third of sugar in 4.5 liters of water for a minute, remove from the stove and leave to cool;
4. In a large enameled container, mix the berry mass with yeast and syrup, cover with a cloth and put it in a warm place for a week;
5. After a week, filter the preparation and pour the wine into glass jars for about 2/3 of the volume;
6. In the same way, boil another third of the sugar in 3 liters of water, cool and pour into jars with the preparation;
7. Put on gloves with a hole on top, put them in a dark place for 10 days;
8. Filter the liquid and again pour over the sterilized boiling water to 2/3 jars;
9. Cook exactly the same syrup from the remaining sugar, cool it, spill it, put on gloves and put it away for another week;
10. Filter the wine and pour it into glass bottles for the last time!