Winemaking is an art, not just a culinary science. Homemade blueberry wine has a beautiful ruby red color, pleasant aroma and balanced taste with some grape notes. The article provides a simple recipe for a drink from healthy blueberries.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
For an alcoholic drink from blueberries, ripe juicy berries will be needed, you should not use overripe and spoiled ones, because they will make the drink cloudy. You will also need water, wine yeast, grape sugar (dextrose), soda.
Blueberry Wine Recipe
15 l 6 months
wine sugar
4.6 kg or granulated sugar - 4 kg
Nutritional value per 100 g:
Mash blueberries in any convenient way (with a mixer, blender).
Place the entire mixture in a large container.
Pour all the water according to the recipe for chopped berries.
Add half the sugar and soda. Mix.
Dilute the yeast in 200 ml of water, the temperature of which should be +30 ... + 35 ° С with the addition of 50 g of sugar, for 30 minutes.
Add yeast to wine stock, mix. Cover the container with a film, mix 2-3 times a day.
After 72–90 hours, the pulp should be squeezed through cheesecloth, folded in several layers. Cover the resulting liquid again with a film and leave for 24 hours.
Fill 3.5 liters of water into another cylinder through the pulp remaining in the gauze.
After a day, squeeze the pulp, mix with wine material and add the rest of the sugar. Mix.
Cover with a water lock, leave for fermentation for 30 days at a temperature of +18 to + 28 ° C.
After a month, strain the young wine, cover with a water lock, leave in a cool room for re-fermentation at a temperature of +15 ... + 20 ° С for 3-6 months.
To bottle.
Mash blueberries in any convenient way (with a mixer, blender).
Place the entire mixture in a large container.
Pour all the water according to the recipe for chopped berries.
Add half the sugar and soda. Mix.
Dilute the yeast in 200 ml of water, the temperature of which should be +30 ... + 35 ° С with the addition of 50 g of sugar, for 30 minutes.
Add yeast to wine stock, mix. Cover the container with a film, mix 2-3 times a day.
After 72–90 hours, the pulp should be squeezed through cheesecloth, folded in several layers. Cover the resulting liquid again with a film and leave for 24 hours.
Fill 3.5 liters of water into another cylinder through the pulp remaining in the gauze.
After a day, squeeze the pulp, mix with wine material and add the rest of the sugar. Mix.
Cover with a water lock, leave for fermentation for 30 days at a temperature of +18 to + 28 ° C.
After a month, strain the young wine, cover with a water lock, leave in a cool room for re-fermentation at a temperature of +15 ... + 20 ° С for 3-6 months.
To bottle.Video recipe
Blueberry Wine Recipe
Did you know? Blueberries are often called blueberries. These are two different cultures, although related to the same species. — heather. You can distinguish them by the shape of the berries: in blueberries it is oblong, and in blueberries — round.
Features of storage of blanks
It is customary to store wine in the cellar or basement. It is advisable to cover the bottles with corks made of natural material. Store wine bottles for up to 1 year in a horizontal position so that the cork inside is wet.
Homemade blueberry wine will surely surprise guests. It is not difficult to do it yourself, but its taste and aroma will not leave anyone indifferent, because it will not do any harm to the body with moderate consumption.
Important! To make a wine drink according to a simple recipe high-quality, a prerequisite is to carefully sort the blueberries by removing spoiled berries.
