5 simple recipes for making blueberry wine at home

At home, blueberry wine is made according to a simple recipe. It tastes just like grape. The color, thanks to flavonoids, is rich and rich. Experienced winemakers provide convincing arguments confirming the beneficial properties of the homemade drink.

Features of making blueberry wine

Blueberries grow everywhere in Russia. For homemade wine, berries growing in damp, mixed forests are more suitable. It contains more juice and sugars. In dry places, blueberries are small and not juicy.There is no rush to collect. The blueberries should ripen.

The technology for making blueberry wine has its own peculiarities. They are determined by the composition. Fructose in the pulp and juice is not enough for fermentation. In addition, there are substances that interfere with it. The problem is eliminated by adding sugar or honey to the wort.

There are a lot of fungal spores on the skin of the berries collected in the forest. They worsen the taste of the homemade drink, so the blueberries are washed. Washed out wild yeast is replaced with homemade starter and purchased wine yeast.

How to make blueberry wine at home

If you have blueberries, then you just need to make homemade wine. American scientists studied the chemical composition of this drink. We found out that it contains antioxidants. They are known to help with cancer, serve as its prevention, and slow down aging.

Classic recipe

This recipe makes blueberry wine without yeast. They are replaced with sourdough prepared at home. It takes 3-4 days to prepare it. Take:

• juice squeezed from 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. Place in a warm, dark place. The starter is stirred every day. Take a wooden spoon. Symptoms of finished sourdough:

• fermentation;
• specific sour smell.

After these signs appear, they begin the second stage of preparing blueberry wine - the fermentation stage:

• the starter is filtered through gauze folded in 2-3 layers, poured into a fermentation container (bottle, jar);
• add water, its temperature is 22-25 °C;
• add sugar (300 g);
• put on a glove or install a water seal.

On the 5th day, a little liquid (500 ml) is poured out of the container.The remaining sugar (300 g) is dissolved in it and poured back into the fermentation container. Fermentation lasts 1-2 months. As long as it goes on, the glove stands; when it ends, it falls.

It is important not to miss this moment and drain the wine from the sediment in time.

Express it into 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.

Option with honey

A homemade drink made with honey has a special taste. The wine is especially good if it is lime and fresh. For 4 kg of raw materials, you will need 0.4 kg of honey, 1.5 kg of sugar, 2 liters of water, 5 g of citric acid.

The recipe with honey differs from the classic one in just one point. The difference is that syrup is added to the wort. It is cooked in the following way:

• mix sugar, honey, heat;
• stir constantly;
• when the mixture boils, add citric acid;
• after 10 minutes of boiling, remove from the burner;
• cool down.

The temperature of the honey-sugar syrup, which is poured into the wort, is room temperature, 22-25 °C. The 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 the raw material with 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 syrup made from water and sugar over them.

After a week, strain the syrup and mix with blueberry-infused vodka (moonshine). Discard the berries. Filter the resulting drink and bottle it. Place in a dark place.

You can drink blueberries with vodka after 5 months.

With raisins

Wine yeast is available for sale. They are added to the wort to enhance fermentation. Instead, unchopped raisins are added to blueberry wine. They don’t take the shiny one, it has undergone chemical treatment, but the dull, dull brown color.

For 1 part granulated sugar, take ⅒ part raisins, 4 parts blueberries, 2 parts water. Crush the berries and transfer to a fermentation container. Pour:

• raisin;
• 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 mixture and pour it into a clean container. Pour water over the pulp for 20 minutes and strain. Pour the resulting liquid into the wort.

Pour the remaining sugar into the fermentation container. Put a glove or a special nylon cap with a water seal on your throat. In a warm, dark room, the fermentation process lasts 25-50 days. After this, the wine is decanted from the remainder and tasted. If they want a sweeter drink, add sugar and put a shutter on. After 7-10 days, filter. Blueberry wine is bottled.

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 and washed. Juice is squeezed out of the berries, mixed, sugar is added, poured into a fermentation container, and a shutter is installed.

When fermentation is over, pour the wine into another container and filter. When it has settled, express it through a straw into bottles. The sediment is left at the bottom. This recipe makes excellent wine. It has a unique bouquet and unique aroma.

For reference:

• 1 part - 2500 g;
• 2 parts - 5000 g;
• ⅒ part - 250 g.

If there are fewer (more) raw materials, the quantity of each ingredient can be easily calculated.

Beverage storage

Homemade wine is stored in bottles. In an airtight container it does not oxidize and lasts up to 3 years. The permissible temperature range at the storage location is 5-16 °C. The taste of blueberry wine does not develop immediately. Gourmets prefer to drink wine aged 2-3 years. Young drinks have a mediocre taste.