Wine from viburnum has a pleasant, sweet-sour taste with a slight bitterness. A drink prepared according to the classic recipe at home will warm you on a cold winter evening and help to cure a cold.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
An important condition that must be observed in order to get a tasty and healthy drink - the berries must be unwashed. On the surface of the fruits of viburnum there is wild yeast, due to which the fermentation process takes place. Glassware should also be used.
Did you know? In viburnum wine, almost all the useful elements that are in fresh berries are preserved. The use of this drink helps to fight colds, improves immunity and mood.
It must be sanitized in advance (thoroughly washed and dried). The recipe for classic viburnum wine is easy to prepare. The only thing worth paying attention to is the duration of the process. Production may take about two months.
The classic recipe for wine from viburnum
10 butyloks 20-30 min
Nutritional and energy value of 100 g:
- Before cooking, you should carefully sort through the berries, discard the bad fruits, remove the stalks.
- Kalina needs to be crushed and placed in a container. It can be a wide-necked bottle or a jar.
- Pour in water, add 500 g of sugar and raisins. Mix well.
- The dishes with the workpiece must be bandaged with gauze and placed in a dark room at room temperature for 3-4 days for fermentation, stirring the liquid every day.
- When the first signs of fermentation appear (foam and hissing), the drink must be filtered, squeezed the cake and pour in the rest of the sugar. Take a third more capacity than the volume of liquid, so that there is room for foam and carbon dioxide.
- You need to install a water trap or a medical glove with a pierced finger on the container and place it in a dark, warm room.
- After four days, add 500 g of sugar. To do this, you need to drain half a liter of liquid through the dispenser valve, or remove the glove and do this with a tube. Four days later, repeat the procedure.
- After 1-2 months, the fermentation process will stop. You need to taste the wine and add sugar if necessary.
- If nothing was added, it must be carefully poured into another container or bottled and corked. Otherwise, leave for another week, because the wine can begin to ferment.
Features of the storage of the drink
You can store corked viburnum wine for 3 years in a cool place (cellar or refrigerator). During this time, the drink does not lose its beneficial properties and pleases with a pleasant taste.
Important! You can add vodka to the finished drink to increase the degree. Usually 40 ° alcohol is added in a proportion of 2-15% of the total volume. The wine becomes stronger and more astringent in taste.
Viburnum wine prepared according to the described recipe can be drunk in its pure form, diluted with clean or sparkling water, other alcohol, used in the preparation of cocktails, or used in baking.
