Pumpkin wine: how to make at home, 6 simple step by step recipes

Wine from fresh pumpkin is a rather unusual alcoholic drink. In fact, the taste of pumpkin wine will delight even an experienced taster, because extraordinary fruit, vegetable, and nutty notes are felt. Ginger, honey, raisins, lime or lemon will help to make a drink already saturated with vitamins and useful trace elements even tastier.

Features of making pumpkin alcoholic drink

Wine from pumpkin contains a lot of useful substances, which makes the alcoholic drink the champion in terms of usefulness among others.

It includes:

• vitamins A, B6, B12, C, D, PP, E, F, T;
• magnesium;
• potassium;
• fiber;
• iron;
• copper;
• phosphorus;
• cob alt.

From fresh juice and young homemade wine, the body receives a lot of vitamins, therefore, its immunity becomes better.

But the use of metered volumes contributes to:

• improve metabolism;
• improve intestinal motility;
• slag removal;
• normalization of s alt levels in the body;
• improve blood circulation.

It is important to properly prepare the ingredients. The pumpkin is taken as orange as possible, juicy, without damage. It should not be stored for more than 4 months. It should be noted that:

• pumpkin peeled and seeded;
• water is suitable only pre-boiled;
• you can use lime, lemon, sugar, but everything should be of good quality;
• containers and instruments are sterilized before use.

The brighter the pumpkin, the richer the color of the alcoholic drink. If you want to get a wine that is as close as possible in color to white, then take slightly yellowish, if red - rich orange.

How to make pumpkin wine at home

Choose the recipe to your taste.

Easy recipe

The simplest recipe can be made even by a beginner winemaker. This recipe does not include yeast, so the wine may not ferment as much as regular grape wine. Need to take:

• 5 kilograms of fresh pumpkin pulp;
• 5 liters of boiled water;
• 1.5 kilograms of sugar (volume may vary depending on the sweetness of the pumpkin).

First, the peel is cut off from the vegetable, the seeds are removed. It is cut into small pieces, but you can also use a food processor, a blender (but you do not need to grind to a puree state). After that, the pumpkin pieces are transferred to an enameled container or made of high-quality plastic. Leave until fermentation appears.

It can take up to 3 days. After that:

• squeeze juice from pumpkin pulp;
• mix with sugar and water;
• pour into a bottle;
• close with a water dispenser or attach a regular rubber glove;
• remove before ripening for two months.

In these 60 days, the condition must be checked. If the wine has stopped fermenting, which is not so rare, then they are looking for a possible cause of the disease of the drink. If everything is in order and the must has acquired a pronounced wine taste, it is bottled.

It needs to be kept in the fridge in clear bottles for at least 30 more days.

Ginger variant

Ginger will give an unusual note, but at the same time leave the drink just as seasoned, tender and tasty. Need to take:

• 3 kilos pumpkin pulp;
• 50 grams fresh peeled ginger;
• 4 cups of sugar;
• juice of one or two lemons;
• a packet of standard baking yeast.

First, grate the ginger. Fill with water (about 4 liters) and leave for a day. Then the liquid is poured into the bottle, the rest of the ingredients are added there, a rubber glove is placed and left in a warm place without sudden temperature changes.

Pumpkin wine according to this recipe is usually ready in 40-45 days. You can understand this by lowering the glove (but you should make sure that this did not happen for other reasons).

To add even more flavor to the pumpkin mixture, you can use various spices.

Pairs best with orange vegetable nutmeg, cloves and cardamom.

With honey

Many complain about the high sugar content in alcoholic beverages. You can try to prepare a drink with honey, in which it is not added. Take:

• 3 kilos pumpkin pulp;
• 500 ml honey.

Juice is made from a pumpkin, it will turn out about 2-2.5 liters. All honey is added to it (you can heat it to make it easier to stir). The must is poured into a container and left to ferment for 3 days.Then, separated from the strong sediment, it is poured into a fermentation tank. Leave for at least 2.5 months in a dark but warm room for fermentation. Then bottled, left on the bottom shelf in the refrigerator for at least 2 months.

With wild yeast raisins

You will need to take:

• pumpkin 4 kilograms;
• water 2 liters;
• raisins 100 grams.

You need to pass the pumpkin through a meat grinder or grind it in a blender. Add raisins to the vegetable puree, put the mixture on fire, bring to a boil and remove immediately. Wrap with a warm towel and put in a warm place for three days. Fermentation is carried out according to the classic recipe.

American hanging method

This recipe, which is rather unusual in its name, is quite simple to implement under normal conditions. Need to take:

• 10 kg pumpkin;
• 5 kilograms of granulated sugar;
• 2 grams dry baker's yeast.

The top of the pumpkin is cut off, the peel and seeds are removed. Pour sugar and yeast inside, close the cut part in the manner of a lid. Secure the cut with tape. Put in a bag and hang up to a meter from the floor. Leave it like this for up to two weeks. Pierce the pumpkin - the entire composition will drain into the bag.

Pour it into cylinders and leave to ferment according to the usual algorithm.

With lemon and lime

Take the usual number of ingredients, plus two pieces of lime and lemon. The juice from them is poured just before fermentation in the bottle.

What problems may arise during the cooking process

Winemakers face these challenges:

• fermentation in the second stage - add temperature;
• fermentation continues - let it ferment in the bottle;
• fermentation does not start at all - add yeast;
• there was an unpleasant smell of mash - to prevent microbes from entering;
• bad taste - change the number of ingredients.

Further storage of the finished product

Stored up to a year. Put in a dark and cool room.

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