Citrus alcoholic drinks are not produced industrially; they can only be made at home, with your own hands. There are no difficulties in making tangerine wine; the main thing is to choose the right ingredients and follow the instructions. The drink, created by fermentation with further clarification, is not cheap, but it turns out tasty and invigorating, worth trying.
Subtleties of making tangerine wine
Tangerine drink is extremely susceptible to microbes; it is absolutely impossible to allow them to penetrate the product. That's why:
- Before cooking, the dishes must be thoroughly washed, poured with boiling water and dried;
- Wash your hands, or even better, wear sterile rubber gloves.
Rules for choosing ingredients
To create wine, take ripe tangerines, sweet or sweet and sour. There should be no dents or signs of rotting on the surface of the fruit. Do not use overripe, bitter tangerines.
The seeds are removed from the citrus slices. Cut off the peel, zest and white film that covers the slices.
How to make wine from tangerines at home
Tangerine wine is prepared by fermentation with further clarification.
Since tangerines have a high acid content and there are no natural yeast microorganisms on the surface, you have to use yeast or a homemade starter.
The wine can be made plain, or you can add cinnamon or mint to improve the taste.
The main thing is not to overdo it with additives, otherwise the drink will turn out bitter and hot.
Classic recipe without sourdough
To make wine, use the method of slow fermentation with the gradual addition of sugar. Prepare the following ingredients:
- 10 kg tangerines;
- 250 g of sugar per 1 liter of citrus juice;
- 35 ml of water per 1 liter of juice.
Step-by-step preparation of wine:
- Juice is squeezed out of tangerine pulp. It should be 6 liters. The cake is left.
- Place cake and yeast in a wide bowl in the amount specified in the instructions on the package. Pour in 200 ml of water and tangerine juice. Add 850 g of sugar.
- The composition is stirred. The neck of the dish is covered with gauze.The preparation is placed for fermentation in a shaded place for 3 days.
- The resulting wort is filtered through multilayer gauze. The cake is thrown away.
- Add 300 g of sugar. The liquid is stirred until the sugar grains dissolve.
- Fill the bottle 2/3 with wort. Place in a shaded place where the temperature does not exceed 18-20 °C. A water seal is attached to the neck.
- After 3 days, a portion of the drink (500 ml) is separated and 240 g of sugar is dissolved in it. Pour into the main volume and stir. They hook the water seal again.
- After 4 weeks, the remaining sugar (200 g) is added in a similar way.
- The bottle with a water seal is kept in a shaded place for 40-50 days.
- The result is a clear drink with a citrus aroma and a pleasant sour taste. It is placed in the basement to ripen for 6 months.
With raisin sourdough
Instead of yeast, you can use raisin starter, prepared yourself. Moreover, it is universal, suitable for making wine not only from tangerines, but also from any other ingredients.
For preparation take:
- 150 g dark unwashed raisins;
- 50 g sugar;
- 300 ml warm boiled water.
How to make a wine starter:
- The ingredients are combined in a bottle.
- Plug the bottle with cotton wool.
- Leave for 3 days at a temperature of +25 °C.
- Strain. Use as directed.
Next, use the standard recipe for making tangerine wine.
If you plan to make a dessert alcoholic drink, then the starter is added in the amount of 3% of the volume of the wort, if dry or semi-sweet, then in the amount of 2%. Store the starter in the refrigerator for 10 days.
Option with oranges
Instead of tangerines, you can use other citrus fruits – oranges – to make wine.The technology for creating an orange drink is similar to preparing a tangerine drink.
From canned tangerines, orange juice and chocolate
The recipe, created by a family from Tennessee, quickly gained popularity around the world. The nuance of obtaining quality wine is long aging, lasting up to 2 years. The drink made from tangerines and chocolate is sweet, aromatic, with a strength of about 12-14 degrees.
To make wine from tangerines, take:
- 3.5 liters of fresh orange juice;
- 2.5 kg of sweet and sour tangerines;
- 1 kg sugar;
- 120 g cocoa powder;
- 5 g yeast nutrition;
- 6 g grape tannin;
- 2 g potassium pyrosulfite;
- a pack of wine yeast.
Prepare the drink as follows:
- The tangerine pulp is crushed to a mushy state.
- Sugar, yeast nutrition, tannin, potassium pyrosulfite are placed in the fermenter, and orange juice is poured. Stir thoroughly.
- 200 ml is poured from the resulting solution. Pour into a blender. Turn on the device at minimum power and slowly add cocoa while rotating.
- The finished mixture is poured into the fermenter. Add tangerine pulp. Stir thoroughly.
- After 12 hours, yeast is added in the amount specified in the instructions.
- Attach a water seal. Leave the liquid to ferment for 8-10 days. Shake once a day.
- The fermented drink is filtered twice. Pour into the fermentation container and attach the water seal.
- Leave in a cool room for 6 months to ripen. During this time, filtration is carried out periodically to remove the formed precipitate.
- The matured wine is bottled in glass bottles. Hermetically sealed. Place in a cool place and keep for another year or at least 6 months.
Storage conditions
Store tangerine wine in glass, hermetically sealed bottles in the basement or refrigerator. Shelf life – up to 3 years.
