Wine from elderberries: 3 recipes at home

Elderberry wine is made by amateurs. But the aroma and taste are very refined, but you should follow the entire technological process, otherwise it will not work.

Wine from elderberries

Ingredients

1. Elderberries - 1 kg

2. Sugar - 1 kg of sugar

3. Water - 3 liters of water

4. Citric acid - 5 g

5. Cloves - 4 g

6. A piece of cinnamon

7. Sachet of wine yeast or 150 ml of raisin sourdough starter

The method of preparation

1. Rinse the berries, peel off the stalks and crush.

2. Add 100 g of sugar, citric acid and 2 liters of boiling water.

3. Stir, add spices and cook for 15 minutes.

4. After cooling, strain through a clean cloth, squeeze the juice and pour into a bottle.

5. Add sugar syrup (900 g of sugar per 1 liter of water).

6. Then add the yeast and close the bottle with a fermentation cork or a water seal.

7. After fermentation, drain the liquid from the sediment, leave a little more time for fermentation and bottle.

Wine from elderberry flowers

Ingredients

1. Elderberry inflorescences - 10 pcs.

2. Sugar - 1 kg

3. Water - 4 liters

4. Lemon - 2 pieces.

5. A sachet of wine yeast

The method of preparation

1. Rinse the flowers, remove the stems and let the water drain.

2. Wash the lemons thoroughly, pour boiling water over them, peel them (optional), cut them into slices and remove the pits.

3. Then put the flowers in a bottle, pour warm sugar syrup, add lemons and wine yeast.

4. Close the bottle with gauze and leave to ferment. After a week, drain the liquid with a hose, strain it and put it back for fermentation, closing the vessel with a fermentation stopper.

5. After fermentation is complete, bottle the wine and cork it. The wine tastes very good.

Wine made from elderberry juice

Method of preparation

1. Dilute the juice from ripe elderberries with water (in a ratio of 1:2) and cook until the bitterness is reduced.

2. Then add 250 g of sugar, 10 g of citric acid and 0.3 g of ammonium phosphate for each liter of liquid mixture.

3. Place the mixture in a bottle under a water seal and keep it in room conditions until the release of gas bubbles stops, then strain, filter and bottle. Store bottles of wine only horizontally.

Update: 22.09.2018

Category: Wine and Vermouth