This season, another wave of wild fruits from the countryside is rushing towards us, and tasting wild fruits is a childhood fun for rural babies. The wild fruits shared with you today can not only quench thirst and fill hunger, but also used to be used by the old man to make wine. This wild fruit is the August melon that used to be common in the countryside - the mountain treasure in the eyes of children. Below I would like to share with you the winemaking method of August melon wine.
1. Remove the August melon just picked from the mountain, remove the sick and rotten fruits, clean it and drain the water.
2. Crush the August melon with a stainless steel fruit beater and pour it into a stainless steel fermentation vat.
3. Dissolve the appropriate amount of white sugar and pour it into the fermentation vat, add koji according to the proportion of 0.5%, and stir well.
4. Fermentation management. The first 3 days are half sealed, stirred once a day, after three days add the appropriate proportion of white sugar, stirred evenly, fully sealed, the 6th day again stirred to let it ferment naturally, about 15 days, fermentation is basically completed, the main fermentation ends.
5. Filter clarification. After the main fermentation is over, the August melon residue is filtered out with a special pressed wine filter (home brewers can also be squeezed and filtered with gauze).
6, sterilization, the clarified August melon wine poured into a professional sterilizer overheating disinfection. Killing and destroying the remaining enzyme system in raw wine can effectively prevent the rancidity of August melon wine, thereby stabilizing the aging quality of August melon wine.
7. Sealing the altar for aging.
Notes:
1. In order to prevent the overflow of fermentation residue in the early stage of fermentation, august melon can be loaded to 60% full stainless steel fermentation vat.
2. In order to avoid waste, pour the pressed August melon residue into the brewing equipment for distillation to obtain August melon brandy.
3. If you are ready to make August melon distilled liquor, you can pour it into the liquor of Tang Sanjing brewing equipment after the main fermentation is over.
In order to ensure that every student can learn the real winemaking technology, Tang Sanjing teaches you to make a liquor/special liquor that is truly suitable for the local taste according to the actual situation of the students, and you can go to the distillery to practice on-site and master the essentials of winemaking.