First of all, let's talk about the materials to be prepared for prune wine: prunes, shochu (white wine) and rock sugar. The selection of prunes is somewhat delicate, try to choose those with high sugar content, moderate acidity, dark red color, full of aroma, and a softer taste. For too ripe prunes try not to pick, otherwise it will make your prune wine sour. Choosing the right white wine is also one of the keys. How do you choose the white wine to soak your prunes in? Here there is also some learning, choose white wine is not recommended to use strong, curved, bad burn and other types of white wine, because these wines are too heavy wine flavor, will cover the fruity flavor of the prunes over. Try to choose a high degree of white wine, to 45 degrees to 50 degrees of white wine is appropriate, such as 50 degrees of Erguotou. The ratio of white wine and prunes is 55% to %; rock sugar we can choose single crystal rock sugar, large pieces of earth rock sugar is also available, there is really no rock sugar, then barely can use sugar to replace, the effect is not as good as rock sugar.

Yangmei wine practice (two)

Again to the plum harvest season, asked: buy too many plums can not eat how to do? As long as it is Wenzhou people, the answer must be: of course, is to make plum wine. The wine not only tastes good, but also has the function of clearing the heat, benefit the gas, nourish the Yin, dehumidification, and open the door. Almost every family in Wenzhou will make some Yangmei wine, both for their own use and for guests.

To make a good plum wine or quite a lot of attention, today we invited the professional brewer Zhu Zhengjun, Zhejiang Kitchen Brewing, to teach you how to make a good plum wine. Lin B

Container: can not use metal containers

Yangmei contains acidic substances, can not use metal containers, to choose ceramics, tile pots, glass containers and food-grade plastic products. Wash them and place them in the sun until they are dry.

Yangmei: Gao Lou and Chashan Yangmei best

Yangmei varieties to Rui'an Gao Lou black charcoal plum and Chashan Yangmei best. The reporter learned yesterday from the city's agricultural department: Rui'an Gao Lou black charcoal plums per kilogram 6 yuan ~ 16 yuan, recommended purchase location: Rui'an Gao Lou; Chashan plums per kilogram 20 yuan ~ 40 yuan, recommended purchase location: Ouhai Chashan.

Select fresh and ripe prune fruits, with the unique fresh fragrance of prunes, finger pinch with hardness, meat capsule without breakage. Never choose moldy and deteriorated fruit. Then, pick off the leaves, fruit stalks (fruit stalks contain tannins, which are leached out by the wine and affect the taste) and other debris, rinse with clean water, and flatten and air-dry.

White wine: 50 degrees of fragrance and rice-type appropriate

White wine should be purchased branded, good quality products, to alcohol about 50 degrees of fragrance and rice-type appropriate. The aroma of soy sauce-type and strong aroma-type liquor will suppress the original flavor of prunes and affect the taste. Currently, Kitchen Worker brand barley shochu and other liquor brands on the market are more suitable for infused prune wine. Kitchen Worker brand barley shochu is fermented with pure strains of bacteria, and the wine song is derived from natural pollen, which makes the wine pure and clean, and it can be used to soak prune wine in a complementary way.

Ratio: 11:9 between white wine and prunes

Usually, the liquor can be soaked over the prunes by about 2 centimeters. You can add some rock sugar according to your personal taste.

Time: Eat prunes soaked for 7 days, drink prune wine soaked for 15 days

Some people like to eat prunes in prune wine, while others like to drink wine. The former only need to soak 7 days can be eaten; the latter need to wait until after 15 days, at this time, the prune juice has been soaked out of the wine, the wine color red and delicate, fruity aroma, Kapu inhaled into the mouth, full of mouth fragrance, fresh and sweet.

If the amount of soaking at one time, ready to eat for a long time, you should separate the prunes from the wine, because the soaking time is too long, the prunes will become black, the wine color becomes dark, the alcohol molecules in the wine are sucked up by the prunes, the prunes wine flavor aggravated, the wine taste becomes lighter. If you have the conditions, low temperature, sealed, protected from light storage, so that the color, aroma and taste of prunes and prune wine can be maintained for a long time.