How to make homemade wine from cherries

What is needed

• Cherry 20-25 kg (about three buckets);
• 2-3 liters of water;
• 2½-3 kg of sugar.

Homemade wine can be made from any variety of ripe cherries. If you want to make a little drink in the sample in proportion to reduce the number of ingredients.

How to prepare the wine of cherries

First reassemble the berries that were not damaged. Better to remove the stalk.

Cherry slightly rinse water to remove dust and dirt from the surface. Remove bone manually or using a special facilities. If they are not removed, the drink will be felt the bitter taste of almonds.

After fold the berries into a bowl or glass-lined bucket, cover and leave for half a day or two. When cherries ferment, mash and strain it through a fine sieve or cheesecloth, folded in several layers. Simplify this procedure help manual press or juicer.

Pour the juice into a bottle: a 20-liter will need 14-15 liters of juice. Add 1½ kg of sugar and add water to a total turned out not more than 18 liters. Foam and fermentation will need space.

Put water gate. He will block the access of oxygen into the bottle and ensure the outflow of carbon dioxide that is released during fermentation. In addition, this design protects the wine from dust and insects.

If such devaysa you do not, assemble it yourself. For this purpose, the lid bottles or cans make a small hole. Insert a long, thin tube, such as a dropper, so that it does not touch the juice. Hole seal. Lower the other end in a container of water.

If the capacity of a small wine, up to three liters, you can use a regular glove with a small slot on one of the fingers. On a volumetric ware it would be difficult to fix.

Place the wine in a dark and warm place.

After two weeks of active fermentation, add the sugar. The amount depends on the cherry you are using. If it is sweet enough to 1 kg for sour - 1½ kg. Return valve in place and allow the wine to the full completion of the fermentation, about six to eight weeks.

When the precipitate in the bottle would be completely at the bottom, take a thin transparent tube diameter of about 5 mm. One end of the dip in the wine. Another squeeze lips and a little pull in the air to hit the wine into a tube. Direct the flow of a new vessel, which stands below the level of high capacity.

wine is bottled close stopper and store in a dark cool place.