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Watermelon Vintage #Homegrown Cider

author:Lao Wang brewing knowledge

Watermelon annual vines, a wide variety of varieties throughout China, outer fruit peel pulp and seed forms are diverse, to Xinjiang, Gansu, Lanzhou, Shandong Dezhou and other places are the most famous.

Watermelon Vintage #Homegrown Cider

Green watermelon

Watermelon species can be divided into fresh watermelon and seed watermelon, most of the watermelon cultivation of selected species is fresh food species, and the hybrid advantage is the highest utilization degree among watermelon varieties.

Watermelon Vintage #Homegrown Cider

Red watermelon

Seed watermelon has strong adaptability, high fruiting rate, extensive management and easy cultivation ~ Watermelon original species may come from Africa, widely cultivated in the world's tropical to temperate zone, and later introduced to China. Watermelon, for the summer fruit meat sweet can cool down the heat of the seeds containing oil can be used as a recreational food.

Watermelon Vintage #Homegrown Cider

Yellow watermelon

Watermelon it has the effect of relieving heat and vitality, diuresis and swelling, regulating blood pressure, protecting cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, sun protection and whitening, eliminating fatigue and so on.

Watermelon Vintage #Homegrown Cider

Watermelon is also known as water melon, melon, summer melon; can be called the "king of melons" water content is extremely high, accounting for 91% to 93%, is a summer thirst quenching product. In addition to containing no fat and cholesterol, watermelon contains almost all kinds of nutrients needed by the human body, such as protein, glucose, malic acid, glutamic acid, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc. is a very rich, nutritious, purest and safest food to eat.

How to make watermelon?

Watermelon Vintage #Homegrown Cider

How to choose the watermelon? Can be judged by the sound of the watermelon whether he is mature, in fact, this method has a scientific basis, because the watermelon in the process of ripening, there are gaps between the cells inside it, larger and larger, and the characteristics that lead to its vibration will change, the general watermelon is not ripe, the sound of the watermelon is more solid. The watermelon ripens a certain gap in the flesh, and the watermelon will have a certain elasticity, so his voice will have the sound of the drum collapsing.

Watermelon Vintage #Homegrown Cider

Watermelon red wine production process

Operational points

(1) Raw material cleaning; select some good watermelons with high sugar content and integrity as raw materials, and clean the sediment and other debris on the surface of watermelons with water.

(2) Juice; after removing the peel of the watermelon, the watermelon pulp is squeezed into a juice and 1 piece of guopu slice and 0.2% of the reef sub-sulfur dioxide are added at the same time as the juice, and the calm is 1-2h.

(3), decompose the juice to improve the juice yield, add pectinase 0.05%, pectinase added to 55 degrees hot water for half an hour and then added to the juice.

(4) Wait for 2-4 hours after adding yeast and stirring evenly for wineization (yeast is activated first)

Watermelon Vintage #Homegrown Cider

(5) Adjust the ingredients; the adjustment of sugar content and acidity, add sugar 3 times, and control the sugar degree at 20-40 to get your ideal wine.

Watermelon Vintage #Homegrown Cider

(6) Wine body aroma; add starter culture and tannins when adding the first sugar, add polysaccharides when adding the second sugar, add tannin enzymes for the third time, and add 90% of the container after adding it is fully sealed for fermentation for about 10 days, and the room temperature cannot be higher than 25 degrees.

Watermelon Vintage #Homegrown Cider

(7) Clarification and filtration; after 10 days of fermentation, add tannin enzymes and oak chips to wait for filtration clarification before being bottled and stored.

Watermelon Vintage #Homegrown Cider

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