First step: cleaning

This step is very important! Generally I brew are for self-drinking, usually, I do not add antimicrobial agents, so the brewing process must ensure that the hygiene, mulberry cleaning is particularly important!

People who grew up in the countryside should still have the impression that every time the ripening of mulberry, parents must be a thousand times, not allowed to eat mulberries, and even scare us, saying that eating will be pumped. In our view today, although this is not very scientific, but also fully explained, outside the messy eating unhygienic mulberry, there are consequences. Mulberry is the same as strawberries, look although very clean, in fact, the surface has a lot of parasites.

Cleaning mulberry action to be light, can not be rubbed by hand, will break the skin, it is best to wash a small amount of through the wash, wash a few more it does not matter, although it will be washed off the top of the wild yeast, but it does not matter, brewing mulberry wine, you can not be like brewing wine, direct use of the fruit on the wild yeast to fermentation, fermentation of mulberries is to be extra added to the yeast. So, be bold and clean it with care! (Cleaning process due to inconvenience, did not take pictures)

Step 2: cool the fruit

After washing the clean mulberries, be sure to cool off the moisture, there is raw water on the fruit, the fruit liquid in the fermentation will produce more bacteria, the later wine may be cloudy, or may become acidic. Lay the cleaned mulberries flat, and wait for the moisture to dry naturally before moving on to the next step in the program.

Step 3: Crush the fruit

The fruit must be broken, the temperature is very high during this time, after adding the fermentation liquid, the fermentation process will start immediately, if you do not break the fruit, I'm afraid that the nutrition will not be fully released.

There are two methods of crushing the fruit:

Manual: after hand sanitization, just crush it directly.

Machine crushing: Juicer, semi-automatic soybean milk machine can be, I this time on the use of Jiuyang Juicer.

Step 4: add sugar, yeast liquid

Pour the processed fruit liquid into the container used for fermentation, it is worth mentioning that the choice of vessels, you can use the earth altar, you can use a glass altar, in addition, stainless steel is also a good choice, in short, no matter what kind of containers you use for fermentation, the disinfection of the vessels must be done, otherwise it will affect the quality of the wine later oh!

The loose ice will be put into the fruit liquid, mulberry wine fermentation must be added sugar, otherwise, the fermentation of mulberry wine will not only have a strong flavor of Chinese medicine, but also bitter and difficult to drink, it is best to add more sugar, I generally add is the winery special yellow rock sugar.

After the sugar is added, stir it, and then pour the yeast liquid into the mix, the yeast can use Angie's yeast.

Step 5: Seal the altar

The yeast will multiply a lot in the first period, do not seal the altar mouth or bottle mouth dead, the fermentation will produce a large amount of carbon dioxide gas, need to be released, and the growth of the yeast needs oxygen. When the fermentation strength is stabilized, then seal the mouth of the altar to avoid the possibility of staining the altar with stray bacteria!

Step 6: Filtering

After a few days of fermentation, when you can't hear the crackling sound inside the altar, it means that the fermentation has stopped, and at this time, you need to filter out the wine in a timely manner (this step can't be delayed)

However, at this time, the wine is still very turbid, as you can see from the picture, and it's better to wait for it to be clarified.

Step 7: Second fermentation

Put the filtered liquor into a clean altar, you can add some more sugar in moderation (depending on personal taste), and seal it. When the liquor is completely clarified, mulberry wine is basically brewed!

Mulberry wine is considered to be the best of the fruit wine, there are have blood tonic, strong body, beneficial to the liver, kidney, eyesight, etc., especially when women drink it, very good! If you have frozen hands and feet in winter, is a cold constitution, often drink mulberry wine can significantly help you improve.

Now commercially some call mulberry wine called purple wine, because the color of the body is very good, as long as you choose good maturity when brewing mulberry, wine color will be very beautiful! Especially want to emphasize one point, if you brew out of the wine can not be clarified, and with a sour taste, that brewing failure, the liquor inside must be impurities over the limit, please do not drink!

Finally, I hope to meet more friends with this healthy and elegant hobby, we come together to exchange the experience of home-brewed fruit wine, traditional brewing is not a high-tech technology, but the original natural, which is our ancestors passed down the history of experience.