5 easy homemade blueberry wine recipes
At home, blueberry wine is made according to a simple recipe. It tastes as good as grape. Color, thanks to flavonoids, intense, rich. Experienced winemakers provide convincing arguments supporting the beneficial properties of the homemade drink.
Features of making blueberry wine
Blueberries grow everywhere in Russia. For homemade wine, a berry growing in moist, mixed forests is more suitable. It has more juice, sugars. In dry places, blueberries are small, not juicy. They are in no hurry to collect. Blueberries should ripen.
The technology for making blueberry wine has its own peculiarities. They are due to the composition. Fructose in the pulp, juice is not enough for fermentation. In addition, there are substances that prevent it. The problem is eliminated by adding sugar or honey to the wort.
There are many mushroom spores on the skin of a berry picked from the forest. They impair the taste of the homemade drink, so the blueberries are washed. The washed-out wild yeast is replaced with home-made sourdough with commercially available wine yeast.
How to make blueberry wine at home
If you have blueberries, you just need to make homemade wine. American scientists have studied the chemical composition of this drink. Found out that it contains antioxidants. They are known to help with oncology, serve as its prevention, slow down aging.
Classic recipe
According to this recipe, blueberry wine is made without yeast. They are replaced with homemade sourdough. It takes 3-4 days to prepare it. Take:
- juice squeezed out of fresh, cleanly washed, sorted berries;
- sugar (300 g);
- raisins (not washed) 100 g.
The ingredients are placed in a clean, non-oxidizing container. The neck is tied with gauze. They are placed in a warm, dark place. The leaven is stirred every day. Take a wooden spoon. Symptoms of the finished starter culture:
- fermentation;
- specific sour smell.
After the appearance of these signs, they proceed to the second stage of making blueberry wine - the stage of fermentation:
- the sourdough is filtered through cheesecloth folded in 2-3 layers, poured into a fermentation tank (bottle, jar);
- add water, its temperature is 22-25 ° C;
- add sugar (300 g);
- put on a glove or put a water seal.
On the 5th day, a little liquid (500 ml) is poured from the container. The remaining sugar (300 g) is dissolved in it and poured back into the fermentation tank. Fermentation lasts 1-2 months. While it goes, the glove stands, when it ends, it falls.
It is important not to miss this moment and to drain the wine from the lees in time.
Express it in a clean container using a thin tube.Fill the container (bottle, jar) to the top so that there is no oxygen in it. When determining the volume of raw materials, you can use the data from the table.
| Raw materials | amount |
| Berries | 4 kg |
| Sugar | 1 kg |
| Water | 2 l |
| Raisins | 100 g |
Option with honey
Homemade drink made with honey has a special taste. Especially good wine is obtained if it is linden and fresh. For 4 kg of raw honey, 0.4 kg is required, sugar - 1.5 kg, water - 2 l, citric acid - 5 g.
The recipe with honey differs from the classic in just one moment. The difference is that syrup is added to the wort. Cook it in the following way:
- mix sugar, honey, heat;
- stir constantly;
- when the mass boils, add citric acid;
- after 10 minutes the boil is removed from the burner;
- cool.
The temperature of the honey-sugar syrup, which is poured into the wort, is room temperature, 22-25 ° C. Wine is prepared according to the algorithm described in the previous recipe.
On vodka
If you have dried blueberries, you can make a liqueur. To make it, you will need vodka, sugar, water. Pour raw vodka. It can be replaced with moonshine. Place the container in a dark place for 2 weeks. Then drain the vodka (moonshine), and leave the berries in the jar. Pour them over with syrup made from water and sugar.
After a week, strain the syrup, mix with vodka infused with blueberries (moonshine). Discard the berries. Filter the resulting drink, pour into bottles. Remove to a dark place.
You can drink blueberries with vodka after 5 months.
| Raw materials | amount |
| Dried berries | 500 g |
| Vodka (moonshine) | 750 g |
| Water | 150 ml |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp. |
With raisins
Wine yeast is commercially available. They are added to the wort to enhance fermentation. Instead, unmilled raisins are added to blueberry wine. They take not shiny, it has undergone a chemical treatment, but matte dull, brown.
For 1 part granulated sugar, take ⅒ part raisins, 4 parts blueberries, 2 parts water. Crush the berries, transfer to a fermentation container. Pour:
- raisins;
- a third of granulated sugar.
Tie the neck with gauze. Place the container in a dark, warm place. Stir the wort every day. Take a wooden stirrer. On the 4-5th day, filter the mass, pour into a clean container. Pour the cake with water for 20 minutes, strain. Pour the resulting liquid into the wort.
Pour the remaining sugar into the fermentation tank. Put on a glove or a special nylon cap with a water seal on the throat. In a warm, dark room, the fermentation process lasts 25-50 days. After that, the wine is decanted from the remainder and tasted. If they want a sweeter drink, add sugar, put a paddle. After 7-10 days, filter. Blueberry wine is poured into bottles.
Blueberry-grape wine
You need red grapes - 2 parts, fresh blueberries - 1 part, sugar - ⅒ part. The grapes are not washed, the blueberries are sorted, washed. Juice is squeezed out of the berries, mixed, sugar is introduced, poured into a fermentation tank, a shutter is installed.
When fermentation is over, the wine is poured into another container, filtered. When it settles, decant through a tube into bottles. The sediment is left at the bottom. This recipe makes an excellent wine. He has a unique bouquet, a unique aroma.
For reference:
- 1 part - 2500 g;
- 2 parts - 5000 g;
- ⅒ part - 250 g.
If the raw material is less (more), the amount of each ingredient can be easily calculated.
Beverage storage
Homemade wine is kept in bottles. In a sealed container, it does not oxidize, it costs up to 3 years. The permissible temperature range for the storage location is 5-16 ° C. The taste of blueberry wine is not immediately revealed. Gourmets prefer to drink wine aged 2-3 years. Young drinks taste mediocre.
