6 simple recipes for making lingonberry wine at home
Homemade red lingonberry wine cannot be compared to any other alcoholic beverage. This product has a tart, sweet-sour taste. Lovers of homemade wines are delighted with the ruby color of the drink. Its strength is 10-12 degrees. Homemade sweet lingonberry wine is served with desserts or baked goods. The recommended dose is no more than 50-100 grams at lunch.
Manufacturing features
From small, slightly sour, tart lingonberry to make an aromatic and tasty wine. Northern peoples call the red-colored drink taiga blood. There are many useful substances in such a product. It is used as an alternative treatment for many diseases.
Lingonberry wine has a sweet-sour, slightly tart taste and ruby color. The product is made from berries purchased in the fall at the market or supermarket.
Lingonberry drink is made from lingonberry and sugar. It will not work to make wine without granulated sugar, the wort may not ferment. You can use honey instead of sugar. For the manufacture of the drink, only ripe and fresh berries are taken, without rot, mold and damage. It is advisable to sort out the lingonberries, chop, but do not wash. There are fungi on the surface of the berries that will help ferment the wort.
Wine is made in a 3-liter jar or in a large glass bottle. Before making a drink, containers are washed and rinsed with boiling water. In addition to lingonberry and sugar, to make lingonberry wine, you will need pure spring or settled water, as well as wine yeast (you can buy it at the supermarket or order it online).
Beneficial features
Lingonberry is a small red berry that grows in forests and peat bogs. It contains a huge amount of vitamin C, beta-carotene, a whole storehouse of various trace elements. Lingonberry nutrients are preserved in lingonberry wine.
Northern peoples call it the berry of immortality. Lingonberries are known for their antioxidant properties. It is also used as an anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and diuretic.
Lingonberry wine in moderation normalizes blood pressure, reduces the risk of cardiovascular pathologies. This drink also improves memory, vision, kidney function. It is useful for arthritis, obesity, and helps lower blood cholesterol levels. Wine is drunk as a prophylaxis against oncological neoplasms, colds and diabetes.
In winter, this drink will fill the lack of vitamins.
How to make lingonberry wine at home
Lingonberry wine is made from one lingonberry or other berries and herbs are added to it. Various additives affect the taste of the drink. The technology for making lingonberry wine is very simple. Usually the drink is made in a 3-liter can.
Lingonberries are carefully sorted out and poured into a container. You can pre-grind it in a blender. Then the berries are covered with sugar, pour in water at room temperature, add wine yeast.
The jar is covered with gauze and left warm for a week so that the wine begins to ferment. When foam appears, the jar is closed with a lid with a gas outlet. Instead of a water seal with a gas outlet tube placed in a container of water, you can put on a rubber glove on the can. True, her fingers need to be pierced with a needle so that the air can calmly exit.
The wine should ferment warm for at least a month. The end of fermentation is indicated by a deflated glove. Then the liquid is filtered and refrigerated for clarification.
The finished drink is bottled.
Classic recipe
A simple recipe for lingonberry wine in a 3-liter can:
- 1 kg of lingonberries;
- 505-905 g sugar;
- 2 liters of water at room temperature;
- 5-10 g of wine yeast.
How to cook:
- berries are poured into a jar and covered with sugar;
- pour in water;
- wine yeast is added;
- the jar is covered with gauze, left for a week at a temperature of +25 degrees Celsius;
- when the wort ferments, install a water seal or put a rubber mitten on the jar;
- the wort is left to ferment at a temperature of + 20 ... + 25 degrees Celsius;
- after 30 days, the liquid is filtered;
- young wine is placed in the refrigerator for clarification (the sediment should go down to the bottom of the can);
- the finished drink is bottled and sent to a cool cellar for storage;
- the wine will be ready in 2-3 months.
Option with honey and cherry leaves
Composition for a 3 liter can:
- 1 kg of lingonberries;
- 205 g of honey;
- 305 g granulated sugar;
- 2 liters of water;
- 10 cherry leaves;
- 5-10 g of wine yeast.
With herbs
Ingredients for a 3-liter container:
- 1 kg of lingonberries;
- 505 g granulated sugar;
- 100 g of any herbs (yarrow, angelica, sweet clover, calamus, snakehead, cephalophora);
- 5-10 g of wine yeast;
- 2 liters of liquid.
With cherry
Composition for a 3 liter can:
- 205 g cherries;
- 305 g lingonberries;
- 0.5 cups raisins;
- 0.5 kg of granulated sugar;
- 5-10 g of wine yeast;
- 2 liters of water.
With wormwood
Recipe for a 3 liter container:
- 1 kg of berries;
- 5 leaves of wormwood;
- 0.5 kg of sugar;
- 5-10 g of wine yeast;
- 2 liters of water.
Fortified wine
Composition for a 3 liter container:
- 1 kg of lingonberries;
- 505 g granulated sugar;
- 5-10 g of wine yeast;
- 2 liters of water;
- 255 g of vodka or cognac is added to the finished product before bottling.
Contraindications to use
Lingonberry wine can lower blood pressure, so people with hypotension should not overuse it. This drink is contraindicated for diseases of the stomach and liver. Wine should not be drunk with ulcers, gastritis with high acidity. Alcohol should not be consumed by women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. It is forbidden to give lingonberry wine to persons under 18 years of age.
Terms and conditions of storage
It is better to store the finished wine bottled at a temperature of + 10 ... + 12 degrees Celsius. In a room that is too warm, it can turn sour. It is best to place bottles of lingonberry drink on the bottom shelf or in the side door of the refrigerator.
The longer the wine stays, the tastier and richer it will taste. A properly prepared lingonberry drink with a low alcohol content can stand in a cool pantry and not sour for about 2 years.
