Apple wine: simple and delicious recipes

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

• Category:

  beverages

• Cooking time:

  4-5 days

Ingredients

• apples
• sugar

For Orthodox Christians, the Dormition Fast has come - a short and strict one. It begins a month after Peter's Lent, not my date, August 14, and ends two weeks later on August 28.

Apple wine prepared according to a simple, step-by-step recipe with a photo at home will delight gourmets with an exquisite honey-fruity aroma. Alcoholic types of drinks contain only 8% alcohol, do not give a hangover and delight the eye with pleasant shades.

Selection of raw materials

Rotten and overripe fruits should not be used for the base of the wort. The former will make homemade apple wine bitter, the latter will make it less juicy, with a large amount of pectin, it will ferment for a long time.

The best cider varieties for simple, step-by-step photo recipes are:

• Antonovka;
• Melba;
• Foxville;
• "Styr";
• "Altai amber" and other types of fruits, the autumn-winter period of ripening.

Winemakers recommend using several varieties at the same time so that the taste of the finished drink is rich, bright, "not boring".

Classic cider

The pre-harvested apples should be sprinkled on a flat surface in a dark, cool room. After 3 days, the required amount of fruit sugar will accumulate in the fruits, the places that need to be cut will become visible.

You cannot wash the fruits before use - there is natural yeast on the surface of apples, which enhances fermentation.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of any varieties of apples;
• 150 g of white granulated sugar.

How we cook:

We sort out the ripe raw materials, cut out the darkened areas and remove the tails. Wipe the fruits with a dry cloth from dust, cut into medium-sized pieces suitable for a meat grinder or blender. There is no need to cut the skin and remove the seed boxes

• Wash bottles or jars for wort thoroughly with soda and pour over boiling water. Wine dishes should not be greasy or have foreign odors.
• Grind the whole mass into a homogeneous puree, put it in a fermentation container. The amount of crushed apples should not exceed 2/3 the volume of the bottle, so that there is room for carbon dioxide and foam.

• Pour the prescribed amount of sugar here, shake the workpiece thoroughly.
• We tie the neck of a jar or bottle with a clean linen cloth, put it away for 4-5 days in a warm place. Shake the future wort once a day so that the fermentation process is even.

• As soon as the room is filled with the characteristic aroma of mash, we drain the contents of the containers through a dense cloth into separate jars or bottles.
• We install water seals or put on medical gloves with holes in one finger on the banks. If you don't, carbon dioxide builds up in the juice and turns the young wine into apple cider vinegar.
• We send the cans in this form to a warm place, making sure that the sun's rays do not fall on the liquid.

• After 45-50 days, the juice in the jars will brighten and a sediment will form at the bottom of the containers. We pour the liquid part into separate bottles with lids, while filling them to the very top.
• We send young apple wine, made at home according to a simple, step-by-step recipe with a photo, to a dark, cool place for aging.

After 3 months, the cider will be ready, you can start tasting.

Juice cider

You can make apple wine at home from the finished product. A simple recipe with step-by-step photos will tell you how to properly get a low-alcohol aperitif of the color of strong tea and rich, fruity taste.

Ingredients:

• 10 kg of apples of medium ripeness;
• 1.5 kg of white granulated sugar.

How we cook:

1. We squeeze the juice from the prepared raw materials. You should get about 7 liters of fragrant liquid.
2. Mix with sugar at the rate of 200 g per 1 liter of the resulting juice. We pour it into fermentation containers, leaving 1/3 of the volume of cans or bottles empty.
3. We put water locks or medical gloves with holes on the necks of the containers. We take out the bottles with the blank in a warm, dark place.
4. After 30-45 days, the liquid will brighten, a sediment will appear at the bottom of the cans. This indicates the completion of the fermentation process.
5. We filter the contents of the bottles through several layers of gauze into clean containers, reinstall the water locks or put gloves on the necks.
6. We send the young drink again to a warm place for another week. As soon as bubbles stop appearing in the bottles, pour the drink into bottles with corks, filling the containers with aromatic liquid to the very top.
7. We seal tightly and take out the young wine to the cellar for maturation. The optimum temperature of the room in which the cider should stand for at least 1.5-2 months should not exceed 12 degrees.
8. Be sure to make sure that direct sunlight does not fall on the stocks of a fragrant drink, so that it does not lose its rich taste and color of strong tea.

Low-alcohol drink "Tenderness"

The process of making apple wine at home using this simple recipe with step-by-step photos is somewhat different from all the previous ones.

Ingredients:

• 8 kg of apples of suitable varieties;
• 12 liters of purified water;
• 3, 2 kg of white granulated sugar.

How we cook:

• We sort out the crop, discard spoiled fruits, cut out rotten areas. Cut out the seed boxes, divide the fruits into 4-6 parts.
• We put the resulting blanks in a linen bag, tie it and place it in a large saucepan or stainless steel tank.
• On top we place a lid of a smaller diameter or a lattice wooden stand of a suitable size. We fill a 10-liter flask with tap water, arrange a container as a press on the lid.
• We cook the syrup from half the sugar and water, let the solution cool to room temperature, pour it into a saucepan with apples and press over the structure.

• We take our composition to a place with a constant temperature not lower than 18 and not higher than 20 degrees Celsius for 5 weeks.
• Using a tube, drain the fermented liquid through a tube into a clean container (as when taking gasoline from a car).

• Pour the remaining mass again with the same syrup as before.
• We wait again for 5 weeks and again drain the liquid, this time for the first portion.
• For six months, we forget about 12 liters of future wine in the cellar.

We pour out the settled apple wine, made at home according to a step-by-step recipe with a photo, through a triple layer of gauze into bottles with corks. We seal it tightly, keep it in the cellar for another 30 days

You can start tasting, the finished drink should resemble lemonade with a rich fruity taste and aroma.

Fortified drink "Harvest year"

According to this step-by-step recipe with a photo, apple wine made at home will have no more than 12-14 degrees of alcohol. This is slightly higher than table wine.

Ingredients:

• 6 kg of sweet and sour apples;
• 200 g seedless raisins;
• 150 ml of quality vodka;
• 2, 2 kg of white granulated sugar.

How we cook:

1. We clean the prepared raw material from seed boxes and grains.
2. Grind in any convenient way in mashed potatoes without preliminary heat treatment (so as not to kill natural tremors).
3. Fill the raisins with a little boiling water. Once the mixture has cooled, cut it into small pieces.
4. We mix grape berries with apple mass and 2 kg of sugar, pour everything through a funnel into a large container with a narrow neck.
5. We put on a glove with a hole in the finger or put a water seal on the bottle.
6. As soon as 21 days have passed, carefully filter the contents through several layers of gauze.
7. Add the remaining sugar to the strained liquid, tightly seal the container with the contents.
8. After 1, 5 weeks, mix the resulting wine with vodka, shake well and pour into bottles with corks.
9. You can store such homemade apple wine according to a recipe with a step-by-step photo for about 2 years.

How to drink apple wine properly

Normandy is considered the birthplace of the drink, where cider is as popular as whiskey in Scotland or vodka in Russia. To appreciate the taste of a homemade drink, you should follow some simple rules:

• wine should be served chilled to 12 degrees Celsius;
• Ideal if you can pour wine from a great height, beer mugs for cider are ideal utensils.
• drops of the drink break against the walls of the dishes and give an appetizing foam;
• fortified type of drink goes well with any fish and seafood;
• dessert apple wine is sweeter, goes well with various types of noble cheeses;
• during the preparation process, you can add a small amount of pear or berry juice to the apple wort at the second stage of fermentation. This creates a completely new drink, unlike the usual types of cider.

In any case, you need to remember that apple wine contains a certain amount of alcohol, so you cannot give it to children.