How to make fruit wine at home

As people's living standards improve, they pay more and more attention to health and wellness, and many people like to make some fruit wine at home. DIY fruit wine can be said to be both delicious and able to reflect personal taste. The method of making fruit wine at home is relatively simple, but you also need to prepare some practical tools and pay attention to some processes of making fruit wine, especially the sterilization and disinfection of utensils, so that you can make healthy and delicious fruit wine.

How to make fruit wine at home

1. Utensils

Stainless steel basin or plastic basin, clay jar, gauze, wooden stick, rubber tube.

2. Operation

1. Select materials. Choose fully ripe, brightly colored, disease-free and mold-free fruits as raw materials, remove impurities, rinse off the surface soil, and drain.

2. Broken. Use a crusher to crush the washed strawberries and separate the stalks and sepals from the pulp. Pour the pulp into a fermentation barrel and add 6% sulfurous acid or vitamin C to kill the microorganisms on the surface of the fruit and the bacteria in the air.

3. Adjust the sugar. The sugar content should be adjusted according to the ratio of 1.7 grams of sugar to produce 1 degree of alcohol. Only in this way can strawberry wine with an alcohol content of more than 10 degrees be brewed. Therefore, the sugar content of the pulp should be measured first. If it is insufficient, sugar should be added to make the sugar content of every 100 grams of pulp 20-25 grams. The most suitable environment for yeast activity is 8-12 grams of fruit acid per liter of pulp. If the fruit acid is insufficient, citric acid can be added.

4. Since there will be wild yeast on the fruit skin, fermentation can usually be achieved without adding additional yeast. However, traditional wine making is easily contaminated. Adding some special yeast for fruit wine is an ideal way to quickly brew fruit wine.

5. Fermentation. Put the prepared pulp into a container and keep the temperature at 25-28 degrees. It will start fermenting in 1-2 days. After 3-5 days, when the residual sugar drops to 1%, fermentation is over, the pomace is removed and the wine is transferred to another container. Store in an environment of 12 degrees, and mature the wine through vaporization and enzymatic reaction. The maturation period takes about 1 year, and the container needs to be replaced during the process.

6. Clarification and storage

3. Health Care Effects

Home-brewed fruit wine is good for health. In the domestic market, more and more fruit wines have appeared in recent years, such as wolfberry wine, green plum wine, etc. Nutritionists point out that compared with liquor and beer, fruit wine has higher nutritional value and better health benefits.

Although fruit wine contains alcohol, the content is very low compared to liquor, beer and wine, generally 5 to 10 degrees, and the highest is only 14 degrees. Therefore, it can be taken as a soft drink after meals or before bed.