Hibiscus wine: a simple tea recipe at home

Sudanese rose hibiscus tea has a sour taste and a beautiful red or burgundy color. In ancient times, it was especially valued for its medicinal qualities. Hibiscus is still very popular in Africa. In food, not only flowers with adjacent parts are used, but also seeds and leaves. Including hibiscus in the diet menu, not everyone knows that it can also be consumed in the form of wine made from the petals of a wonderful rose.

Features of making wine from hibiscus

Wine from hibiscus has not yet been tried by many, and some did not even suspect such a use of Sudanese rose petals.Therefore, it is worth dwelling on the specifics of the preparation of this drink. As always happens during the preparation of something edible, everyone thoughtfully or out of necessity makes their own changes to the culinary recipe. Already proven nuances of working with hibiscus:

Preparing for bottling takes little energy, as there is no need to squeeze the juice like fruit.
Make possible both dry and sweet wine.
When adding ingredients with a pronounced aroma, it is almost impossible to guess the presence of hibiscus, but the drink has a rich taste.
Wine can be made in no time.

Required Ingredients

Hibiscus tea contains a lot of useful substances. Him:

lower blood pressure;
strengthens the walls of blood vessels, making them flexible;
reduces stress;
removes oxidants, excess saturated fat, cholesterol;
quenches thirst in the heat;
shows a bactericidal effect.

It is noteworthy that the preparation of wine from a burgundy Sudanese rose does not deprive it of all the listed qualities. To prepare an alcoholic drink, it is necessary to cause the fermentation process, hence the slight difference from the tea recipe.

Wine will require the following ingredients (basic):

water - 3 liters;
karkade tea - 50 grams;
dry wine yeast - 7-10 grams;
granulated sugar - 500 grams;
raisins - 1 cup.

This is the essential foundation. But gourmets diversify the recipe, bringing their favorite aromas to the wine from hibiscus tea. The most popular additives are 50 g of lemon zest or juice from two lemons (based on 3 liters). Thrill seekers put in a whole bunch of spices:

3 s alt spoons of honey;
3 teaspoons cinnamon;
15 carnation buds;
3 teaspoons ground ginger.

Here is such a supplement to the main package of ingredients, if desired.

Preparing products for the recipe

Planning to put the wine to ferment, the day before, they send 3 liters of tap water to settle. Winemakers who are accustomed to using water from eggplants or from a machine can purchase it even at the last moment. Then the preliminary preparation will consist only in scrolling black raisins (preferably) in a meat grinder and brewing hibiscus tea with boiling water. The tea leaves are insisted for 3-5 hours. Trace elements, antioxidants, vitamins will pass into the infusion.

How to make wine from tea at home

Good wines are expensive drinks. Hibiscus wine, despite its wonderful taste, is able to cook even a beginner in his kitchen. You must carefully follow the instructions:

Tea from hibiscus petals is filtered through gauze.
Sugar is added to the infusion.
Stir it until the crystals disappear from the bottom.
Dissolve dry yeast in this liquid.
Pour the resulting mixture into a 10 liter bottle.
Pour crushed raisins into it.
The bottle is shaken several times.
A water lock is installed on the neck of the vessel.
Put the bottle in a warm place.
When fermentation stops, the young wine is carefully poured into a dry container so that the sediment at the bottom remains in the old vessel. In a new vessel, the drink is tightly sealed and sent to a cellar or other cold place for at least 1.5 months to complete the fermentation processes.

Terms and rules of storage

The best temperature at which you need to keep the wine to age (improve) - 12.5 ° C. In this case, the most important condition is the absence of temperature fluctuations. Relative humidity during storage - 70%. Lay the bottles horizontally so that the cork does not dry out. Hibiscus wine is preferably bottled in dark glass bottles. It is permissible to cork it in jars, closing it with glass lids. Wine is stored in a dark room without vibrations that raise the sediment. In the conditions of an apartment, its shelf life is 6 months.