Everyone who makes preparations for the winter sooner or later finds old, candied or fermented jam in their stocks. Then a dilemma arises: what to do with this good? It's a pity to throw it away, but you can only eat fresh product with pleasure.
Here's a hint: you can make wine from old jam at home. And what's more, we will share with you the simplest and most successful recipes for homemade wine from jam.
If mold appears in the jam jar, then the best solution is to throw out the entire jar. Some remove the moldy layer on top and use the leftover jam, mistakenly believing that the problem has been fixed, but mold spores are infiltrating the bottom of the jar without the human eye being able to see them.
The process of making homemade wine from jam is very simple, but rather lengthy - the wine can ferment for four to five months, but not always. It depends on what kind of jam you use, as well as the need to add or not add sugar. But on average, the whole process can be described as follows:
Homemade wine can be made from any fruit and berry jam - apricot, peach, currant, raspberry, apple, pear and so on.
The most delicious wine is made from strawberry, currant, raspberry jam. However, this is for our taste. You can experiment, and probably your favorite can be homemade homemade wine made from apples, pears, apricots. And you can prepare several types of wine at the same time and spend long winter tasting evenings choosing the most delicious drink. Below you will find simple and affordable recipes for delicious homemade wine from different types of jam.
In fact, a second life in the form of wine can be given to every can of homemade sweet preserves. However, we want to warn you that it is undesirable to mix different types of jam in one container. This will spoil the taste of the drink.
To make raspberry wine you will need:
Preparation:
For 1 liter of strawberry jam, take 130 g of raisins, 2.5 liters of boiled warm water and do the following:
Wine made from apple jam at home is made using the following technology: 1 liter of jam is mixed with 1.5 liters of boiled water, 200 g of rice (unwashed) and 20 g of fresh wine yeast are added to the mixture (but you can also take baking fresh ordinary ones).
The yeast is preliminarily dissolved in a small amount of water. You will need a 3 liter bottle to prepare the wort. further - we follow the instructions:
Ingredients for making currant wine at home:
The technology for making wine is identical to the technology described in the previous sections.
The method of making cherry wine does not differ from those given earlier. This wine is made from 1 liter of cherry jam (ideal if the cherry is pitted), 100 g of raisins and warm boiled water. Water must be added so that the three-liter jar is filled with the mixture by no more than 75%.
How to make wine from candied jam? Take 3 liters of any old jam (assorted), add 5 liters of water and, with constant stirring, boil for 3-4 minutes. Then cool the liquid. Pour the drink into a clean and sterilized container, filling no more than 75% - the remaining space will be required for carbon dioxide and foam. Raisins are added directly to the container.
We close the container with a punctured rubber glove and send it to ferment. After 1.5-2 months, the gloves should fall to one side, and the liquid should become transparent with a sediment falling to the bottom. We drain the sediment using a long thin tube, pour the wine into clean and dry bottles.
We close the bottles tightly and put them on their side in a warm dark place for 2 months - to reach.
There is a recipe for homemade candied jam that uses yeast. However, we want to warn you that this method is undesirable, because in the end it may not turn out wine, but mash.
but if you decide on a wine with yeast, then it is better to use special wine yeast, but you can also use baker's.
So how to make homemade yeast wine:
Prepare a clean, sterilized 3 liter jar and add the ingredients to it. Add 1 liter of boiled water. Cover the container with a perforated glove, place in a warm, dark place. After the sediment has formed and when the drink becomes transparent, strain it into a bottle and refrigerate for several days. If the drink tastes sour for your taste, you can add sugar (20 g / l) or sugar syrup. You can also add spices such as mint, cinnamon, etc. to the finished wine. The spices will give the wine a stronger flavor and more sophisticated taste.
To make wine from fermented jam, take:
Take a container of 5 liters or two 3-liter cans, into which we pour the mixture by two-thirds, no more.
We insist the wine in a warm and dark place for 10 days under lids. After 10 days, drain the sediment, pour the wine into a clean container and, under a glove, return it to a dark and warm place for 1.5 months.
As soon as the glove is deflated, strain the wine through cheesecloth, add 0.5 cups of sugar, pour into a clean container and leave for 2-3 months. After two months, the wine will be completely ready for use.
At the end of fermentation, the bottled wine is stored in a dark, cool place. This is why a refrigerator or basement is perfect for this. The main thing is that the temperature does not exceed + 16 ° C. The shelf life of homemade wine is three years.
Now you know a few recipes on how to make homemade wine from jam, and the question of how to empty the shelves from old and fermented preservation disappears by itself.
Make delicious homemade wine, experiment with recipes, but remember that alcoholic beverage, no matter how tasty, should be consumed in limited quantities.
If prepared for the winter jam fermented, do not get excited and immediately throw it away. From this raw material you can make delicious wine... The recipe is simple and does not require rare ingredients. I will tell you how to make wine from fermented jam at home. Not only fermented, but just old jam of past years will do. Separately, we will consider the issue of wine production from compote, both technologies are very similar.
Attention! You can not use spoiled jam, which is covered with mold, it is better to throw it away immediately. This also applies to compote. In order to prevent infection of the wort by pathogenic microorganisms, all containers must be sterilized with boiling water and dried.
Ingredients:
The amount of sugar depends on the initial sweetness of the jam, if it is very sweet (sugar content 40% or more), additional sugar is not required. Raisins are needed for fermentation; there are wild wine yeast on the surface of the berries, which will start the process. It is very important in the case of old jam.
A glass bottle of 5 liters or more is ideal as a fermentation vessel. You can also use three-liter cans, but then the portion will have to be divided into several parts, and the cans themselves should be filled by no more than 2/3 of the volume so that there is room for foam and carbon dioxide.
2. Put on an ordinary rubber glove or install a water seal on the neck of the container. If you are using a glove, make a small hole in one of your fingers with a needle to drain the gas.
Gloves are inflated - fermentation is in progress.
3. Transfer the container to a dark (can be covered) warm place (18-29 ° C) for fermentation. After 4 days add the second portion of sugar (50-75 grams). It is necessary to remove the water seal, drain 100 ml of the fermenting wort through a thin tube, dilute the sugar in it. Pour the resulting syrup into a container of wine and reinstall the water seal. After another 4-5 days, repeat the procedure for adding sugar (50-75 grams) according to the technology described above.
If fermentation does not stop after 55 days from the moment of installation of the water seal, in order to avoid bitterness, you need to drain the wine from the sediment into another container and put it under the water seal to ferment.
4. After the wine has fermented (the glove is deflated or the water seal stops gurgling), the drink must be filtered through cheesecloth or drained from the sediment.
If desired, you can add sugar for sweetness or fix with vodka (alcohol 40-45%) in the amount of 2-15% by volume. Fortified wine keeps better but tastes harsher.
5. It is advisable to fill the containers with the filtered drink to the top (so that there is no contact with oxygen), tightly close the stopper and put on hold for 2-6 months in a dark cool (6-16 ° C) place - a basement or a refrigerator. If sugar was added at the previous stage, it is better to keep the wine under a water seal for the first 7-10 days.
6. The finished drink can be bottled and sealed.
Wine made from strawberry jam after fermentation.
If stored in a refrigerator or basement, homemade wine made from jam has a shelf life of 2-3 years. Strength - 8-12% (without vodka fixing).
The cooking technology is identical to the previous method, so there is no point in describing it anew. Only the proportions of sugar and the ripening time will change. All sugar can be added to unsweetened compote at once, and not crushed into pieces. Then do it by analogy with jam wine.
Recipe:
Wine made from cherry compote.
Fortress - 8-12%. The shelf life is 2-3 years.
Experienced winemakers are able to transform any edible product into a real exquisite drink. Jam that has fermented can be especially helpful when making delicious wine at home.
Therefore, do not throw it away because of suspicion of damage. After all, the wine obtained on its basis has useful qualities, retaining in itself many substances and microelements valuable for health.
At the same time, it has a pleasant, incomparable taste.
This process is quite simple and accessible to any housewife, even not the most skillful one. It is enough to have a little free time and the actual fermented jam.
Required Ingredients for Fermented Jam Wine:
The color of the finished wine will determine the composition of the jam. Accordingly, thanks to the red berries, the drink will get a red tint, and yellow or white - a lighter one.
Most often, housewives use currant, cherry, raspberry, gooseberry, apple, pear and cherry plum jam. But other options (especially "sets" of several types of fruits) will allow you to get quite tasty homemade wine.
Stages of making wine from fermented jam at home:
Ingredients Required:
The process of making homemade rice wine and fermented jam:
Raspberry jam is perfect for making high-quality fine homemade wine. It is quite simple to make it on the basis of this fermented product. His taste turns out to be incredibly pleasant.
Ingredients Required for Fermented Raspberry Jam Wine:
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Raisins in the process of making wine at home acts as a natural yeast. However, if you wish, you can prepare such a delicious drink without its presence. But in this case, you need real yeast. This will not negatively affect the taste of the wine.
Ingredients that will be needed to prepare the drink:
If you want to get an unsweetened drink from fermented jam, in this case you need to exclude granulated sugar from the list of necessary ingredients. Otherwise, it must be used as it will add a sweetish flavor to the wine.
The wine will turn out to be especially tasty and of high quality if you follow all the important rules for making it at home. Experts recommend the following:
If you adhere to all the basic recommendations of wine experts, you can achieve the best result. Homemade wine made from fermented jam always has advantages over the purchased one, since it is made from natural, proven products.
Many housewives are familiar with the situation when the jam has not yet deteriorated, but it’s not the first year to eat it in the pantry, and the taste is not the same. It is even more difficult if the jam is fermented. This is usually unfortunate, because a lot of products and funds were spent for its preparation, and efforts were invested. A recipe for wine from fermented jam will come to the rescue. With a little more effort, you can get an excellent dessert wine, and the cost of jam will pay off with interest.
There are not many ingredients required to make wine from fermented jam. This is primarily jam that has fermented or just old jam.
You should take jam from one type of berries or fruits, so you get a rich bright taste. If you use several types of product, then combine sour and sweet berries, for example: raspberries and currants, in this case they complement each other.
Instead of yeast, take raisins, since yeast with fermented jam will sooner give mash. If the recipe contains yeast, then wine should be used. It is difficult to find them in stores, but they are sold.
For wine, you will also need water, it is imperative to boil it. In all recipes, the water temperature is 25–35 C. And in some recipes, a little sugar is used, with its help they regulate the sweetness of the drink and alcohol or vodka for strength.
From the fermented jam, an excellent dessert wine with a strength of 10 to 14 O. is obtained.
To make homemade wine from fermented jam, you will need glass containers. It would be better to take 5-liter cans, but regular 3-liter cans will do. They are filled no more than 4/5, ideally 2/3 of the capacity (space is needed for fermentation).
And you also need a special water seal, it will require a plastic lid and a needle with a dropper tube and a container of water. The needle is inserted into the lid, and the end of the tube is lowered into the water. This complex device is called a hydrolyser. If it's too difficult, just buy a rubber medical glove. The device will be required in order to prevent the flow of oxygen into the container with the wort.
You will also need cheesecloth, a colander, clean bottles with corks, and a medium-sized straw.
All cans and bottles need not only be washed, but sterilized - this will allow you to get a pure taste without impurities and an original aroma of the drink.
Most of the recipes described here are for two 3-liter cans.
Before making wine from fermented jam, consider a few important rules:
Please be patient to prepare wine this way. Your product will be ready in 4 - 4.5 months. But the result is worth such a long wait.
First, we will make the wort. We take water, after boiling and cooling it, add sugar to it. Stir everything well.
Now pour the syrup into a prepared glass container and add jam and raisins to it.
put on a rubber glove on top of the can
We mix everything, close it with a nylon lid and put it in a dark place for 10 days. The temperature in the room should be between 18 and 25 C.
Then mix everything again and drain the liquid into a new sterile container.
Now we put on a rubber glove on top of the jar - we make a hole in it with a needle and leave it in the same place for a month and a half. First, the glove will inflate, and at the end, it will fall off - this is a signal that the wine is ready. During this time, bubbles will appear on the surface of the wine, then their number will significantly decrease.
Now take the tube and carefully pour the liquid into clean bottles. This should be done so that the sediment remains in the jar and does not end up in the bottles.
Close each bottle tightly with a crust and put it for another 3 months in a cool place (no higher than +16). This procedure is called “aging” by winemakers and it is necessary for the formation of taste and aroma.
Now you can taste the wine.
It is good to make such a wine from raspberries or other sweet berries. Although cooking it is faster than in the previous recipe, it will still take at least 2-3 months.
For wine made from jam at home you will need:
If you need to make homemade wine quickly, you can use the yeast and rice recipe. It will take from 15 days to 1 month to prepare a drink. For him you will need:
This recipe makes the wine much faster.
This recipe will take a lot of care and time, but it will be worth it.
For him use:
For cooking, you will need a large container of 5 liters. Fill it only 2/3 and not more.
First, we make the wort: add sugar and jam to boiled and cooled water, taste it, it should be sweetish (but not too, not cloying). If the sweetness is not enough, add some of the sugar.
Now we prepare the shutter from cotton wool and gauze. To do this, put a layer (0.5 cm) of cotton wool in 2 layers of gauze and wrap the neck of the can with this. Experts say that this way the taste will be special. If it is difficult, we put on a rubber glove with a small hole.
We put the resulting composition in a darkened and warm place, if it is not possible to put it in a darkened place, you can cover the jar with a cloth.
Then add sugar to the container for 4-5 days. To do this, use a tube to suck ½ cup of liquid from our container and dilute ½ cup of sugar in it. And then we return the liquid to the jar through the tube.
This procedure for adding sugar must be repeated one more time (again for 4–5 days). And then leave the fermentation container for 1.5–2 months. The duration of the process depends on the room temperature.
If the fermentation process (bubbling) does not stop after 2 months, you will need to drain the clear liquid into another prepared container and close it again with the shutter.
When fermentation stops, the liquid is filtered through cheesecloth and sugar and vodka are added (or not) to taste.
Then the resulting liquid is poured into a container to the top for holding. This process takes from 2 to 6 months (room temperature from 6 to 12 C). First, every 15 days, the liquid is poured into another container to avoid sediment (it is left in an old container). After 2 months, this procedure can be done 1 per month, and then less often (as sediment appears). When the aging is completed, the wine is bottled and sealed tightly.
Store in the basement for up to 3 years.
To make your homemade wine tasty and retain its taste for a long time, you should adhere to a number of rules:
The technology of making wine from jam does not depend on the type of berries or fruits from which it is made, only the methods of making the must will differ. How to make wine from jam at home in the simplest way? For this you need:
Wine created according to this recipe will contain 9-11 degrees of alcohol.
To make a drink from raspberry jam, you will need:
To make wine according to this recipe, the already described technology of making wine at home is used.
To prepare wine you should prepare:
Cooking technology:
The wine according to the recipe is very aromatic, rich in taste and color, and can compete with grape wines in taste.
To make a drink you need:
We mix the components of the future wine, pour into a suitable thoroughly washed container for 2/3 of the volume and prepare the drink using the usual technology. Some wine lovers note the special taste of the wine made from a mixture of jam from strawberries and currants.
When preparing a drink at home in autumn, winter or spring, for aromatization, a tincture of fresh berries with alcohol, which is added after fermentation, before aging, is suitable.
In order to prepare wine, you need to take:
How to put wine using yeast and rice? Its preparation does not differ from the traditional one, with the addition of raisins to the wort. For flavoring add pieces of lemon peel, syrup for taste (20 g per 1 liter of ready-made drink).
The recipe assigns the role of sourdough to unwashed rice, you can use the traditional wine sourdough, unwashed raisins.
To make currant wine at home, we take:
Homemade wine is fermented like this:
To set the wort you will need:
The technology for making wine is common; it is advisable to place the container during fermentation in a dark place at room temperature.
The wine has a strong aroma and a beautiful golden color.
Stocks of last year's candied jam are a great stock for making wine at home. How to use old jam for this?
Homemade Sugar Jam Recipe:
To make a drink you need:
Homemade wine, after aging, turns out to be similar to champagne, so you need to uncork the bottles with care.
What can be made from fermented jam? To make homemade wine from a sour billet, you should take:
To set wine, you need to do the following:
This technologist will make it possible to prepare delicious wine at home from the soured jam that has begun to ferment.
How to make the "right" jam wine? When making a hop drink from fresh raw materials, the first step is to prepare berries and fruits (they are cleaned and crushed).
Jam is a prepared, refined raw material.
The second step is to prepare the fermentation base (wort).
If fresh raw materials are used, the crushed mass (pulp) is mixed with sugar and water. The amount of sweetener (sugar or honey) is determined by the sweetness of the raw material and ranges from 150 to 300 g per liter of liquid.
Sugar is added to the jam during production, the hostess usually knows how much of it is in a liter of product. If it is too sweet, you need to increase the amount of water to obtain the wort of the same concentration as when using fresh fruits. Compliance with the desired sweetness is extremely important - in an acidic environment:
An excess of sugar is unacceptable - in this case, fermentation will slow down (sugar has the properties of a preservative).
The third step in making homemade wine will be adding yeast to the wort (the jam was boiled, does not contain microorganisms that can "start" the fermentation process). They can be added to wort (wine yeast is used, not regular yeast). The addition of ammonium chloride allows the yeast to actively multiply (the compound is used in industrial winemaking to enhance the taste of wine when blending).
You can make a sourdough using only natural ingredients (recipe):
Sourdough is added to the wort at the rate of 25 g per liter of liquid.
Not only taste, but also smell is important in a wine drink. Wine made from fresh fruits retains their aroma, jam, with the exception of some varieties, does not have a pronounced smell.
To improve the aroma of the drink, you can:
The fourth step is the setting of the wort for fermentation and the installation of a water seal so that air does not get into the future wine. After cleaning the liquid (the yeast suspension should settle to the bottom), the liquid can be drained from the sediment.
This is necessary to remove impurities, to develop a rich taste and high quality wine.
To reveal the taste of wine, it must ripen - the longer it is stored in a cool, dark room, the better. Storage bottles or other containers should be thoroughly washed, preferably without the use of synthetic detergents.
The fermentation wort can be poured into a container made of any material (except metal) - ceramics, glass, wood up to 2/3 of its volume. Oak sawdust, bark in a dense linen bag, dipped in the wort before fermentation will help to improve the taste.
How to make wine from old jam correctly? You should not use a product with mold colonies, obviously spoiled - homemade wine will get an unpleasant taste.
For a sweeter, dessert drink, syrup is introduced into the wort - up to 250 g of sugar for the entire volume of wine. Honey and spices can be added to the liquid before fermentation to flavor a drink made from raspberry jam, various varieties of currants.
There are many homemade wine recipes from unused jam, each housewife has her own tricks and tricks. Knowledge of the main stages of technology will make it possible to delight loved ones with a delicious, aromatic drink.
The abundance of fruits and berries stimulates housewives to produce everyone's favorite delicacy - jam. Usually, by the beginning of the new season, there are a lot of last year's stocks of this sweet product. The question of where to use sweet reserves has long been decided by experienced winemakers, because this is a ready-made basis for high-quality wine material. Wine is consumed in large volumes, and there are not always enough raw materials for its production. For production, last year's stocks are suitable, old candied, fermented, sour jam will also become an excellent basis for a future aromatic alcoholic drink. Ways to put wine from jam have long been tried by experienced winemakers.
To make wine from jam at home, it is important to know that a delicacy like jam, jam, except moldy is suitable. Mold decomposes alcohol into H2O and carbon dioxide. You can get wine with amazing taste by fumigating gray containers, containers for the production of a drink, the rest of the items are sterilized.
Knowing the basic rules of how to make homemade wine from jam, it's time to start preparatory activities. The process is as follows - cooked water with a sweet treat is reduced in a 1: 1 ratio for every 3000 ml. you need to add 125 gr. sweetener. Place in a sterilized container, cover, put away in a warm place, keep out of sunlight. When the cake floats, the liquid is filtered, poured into a bowl for further fermentation. Another 125 gr is added to the dishes with liquid. sweetener, sealed with a water seal, set for 70 days in warm and dark. After making sure that there are no signs of carbon dioxide evolution, the wine is poured, leaving the tartar intact. Put away in the cool.
If you conduct an audit of many housewives in the bins, you can probably find several jars of expired jam. Nobody will eat such a blank, but it’s a pity to throw it away. Do not be upset about this, because you can make delicious wine from old jam at home.
If you strictly follow a simple one, the finished drink will turn out to be no worse than wine, which is made from freshly picked fruits and berries.
To prepare an alcoholic drink, you can use currant, raspberry, plum, apple to taste. The main thing is not to mix two different preparations, otherwise the taste of the prepared wine may deteriorate.
The wine, made from expired jam, has a sensual taste and pleasant aroma. It differs from other similar types of alcohol in its sweet and sour aftertaste.
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When finished, we taste it and add granulated sugar if desired. We put a warm place for three days so that it completely "reaches".
If you do not want to wait so long when the wine from the jam is ready, then pay attention to a simple recipe for a drink without sugar. The finished wine can be tasted in a month and a half.
Ingredients:
Recipe:
When oxygen ceases to be released, it means that our alcoholic drink is completely ready. We carefully bottle it without touching the sediment.
Now you know that many different wine drinks can be made from fermented and old jams. Experiment with the recipes presented to your liking.