How to make your own wine

Here is the recommendation to you is the small currant rice wine, small currant rice wine practice is simple, low cost, short fermentation period, about 7 days, high rate of alcohol, a catty of rice can be brewed almost a catty of wine, brewing needs simple equipment, the operation is also very simple. And it is soft, pure, refreshing, the wine is fragrant and pure, extremely suitable for those who want to try their hand at the brewing process.

The first thing you need to do is to have a brew. Also called liquor medicine, it is an essential ingredient for brewing, as it plays both a saccharifying and fermenting role in the brewing process. In the white rice that has been strongly steamed, the conidia of Aspergillus oryzae are moved in, and then kept warm, and mycelium grows luxuriantly on the rice grains, which is the liquor quartz. The amylase enzyme produced by Aspergillus saccharifies the starch inside the rice, so it has been used since ancient times as raw material sugar at the same time as malt to make sake, sweet wine, and bean paste. Sake brew made from wheat instead of rice is called makgeolli.

Juice brew is ground into a powdered form

Small brew is a type of liquor brew. The microorganisms in koji are naturally selected and cultivated, and inoculated by the brewer's mother so that the beneficial microorganisms multiply, so that it contains not only saccharomyces cerevisiae, but also leavening bacteria. Wine quarts can generally be bought at places such as the condiment counter of food supermarkets, individual condiment stores or online stores.

Well, here's the official start of our small-curve rice wine brewing class.

One, the preparation of materials:

Rice a number of (10 pounds or less is appropriate), a number of quartz medicine (500 grams or so), retort (steam drawer) a home blender (do not mind the trouble can be manually stirred), the home shaking a machine (you can also manually shake the material), the home fermentation tanks three to five (you can use a plastic bucket with a lid instead of), the home distillation device.

Traditional cookware in the Southwest - Zhenzi

steam drawer

Two, production steps:

1, cleaning raw materials, that is, rice, water can be poured; (analogous to panning rice)

2, the cleaned rice loaded into the retort steaming, round gas after 15 to 20 minutes, on the cover and then steamed for 20 minutes, splashing the first water, steam and then splash the second water to ensure that the rice is cooked through, generally steamed rice water amount of 62 ~ 63%; (analogous to boiled rice)

3, steamed rice in the shaking machine churning scattered, the drum wind Yang cool, so that the temperature of the rice down to 36 ~ 37 degrees, add raw materials amount of 0.8 to 1.0% of the small currant powder (or medicinal small currant powder) and mix it well. (Plus Qu medicine)

Non-grinding wine curd

4, after mixing the rice poured into the tank (cylinder), the thickness of the rice layer of 10 to 13 cm, the center of the hollow dug, the next cylinder when the product temperature is controlled at 32 to 34 degrees, plus the lid, for the cultivation of bacteria saccharification, after 20 to 22 hours, the product temperature rises to 37 to 39 degrees for the best, according to the temperature do a good job of temperature regulation, saccharification of the total time is 20 to 24 hours. 24 hours. (Sugar)

5, after 24 hours of saccharification, add 120 to 125% of the amount of raw materials, water mixing, product temperature control at 36 ? Around, the sugar content of the grains should be 9 ~ 10%, the total amount of acid does not exceed 0.7%, the alcohol content of 2 ~ 3% (capacity), after mixing each rice tank is divided into two grains tank fermentation 6 ~ 7 days, pay attention to temperature regulation, the end of the fermentation, the alcohol content of 11 ~ 12% (capacity), the total amount of acid is less than 1.5%, the residual sugar is close to zero as normal. (Fermentation)

6, after completing the above steps, the spirits will be distilled. Distillation, the fire should be even, the temperature control of the wine at 30 degrees, and cut off the head and tail of the wine to ensure that the first distillation of alcohol and mellow. (Distillation)

Distillation illustration

7, finished: the steam out of the wine into the container, to be cooled down after the wine can be drunk (not afraid of scalding your mouth, while hot is also good). You can also be brewed as a base wine, and other alcohol blended together into a variety of flavors (this step requires talent, no talent do not imitate).

Third, notes

1. Mixing the sake brew must be done after the rice has cooled down. Otherwise, the hot rice will kill the mold. The result will either be sour and smelly or no movement.

2. The saccharification and fermentation process must be well closed, to maintain a semi-sealed state, that is, to ensure that the fermentation gas can be discharged, the outside air can not enter. Otherwise the wine will be sour and astringent.

3. The key to making wine is cleanliness, everything can not be stained with raw water and oil, hands and tools should be washed, otherwise it will be moldy and hairy

4. If the fermentation is excessive, the rice is empty, all water, the wine is too strong; if the fermentation is not enough, the rice is raw rice, choking, sweetness is insufficient, and the taste of wine is insufficient.

5. Warm water should be used for brewing. Raw water contains other microorganisms and impurities that will destroy the quality of the wine, and hot water will kill the microorganisms in the brew.

If you want to get a stronger flavor, you can try:

1. Extend the fermentation time of the liqueur;

2. Put a little bit of yeast in the mixing of the liqueur during the production process, but the amount must be small.

This is the entire production process of home brewing small currant rice wine, sorghum, corn, rice, wheat, buckwheat and other materials, the process is similar (but to be small crushed into particles and then steamed, the time to be extended accordingly). How about it, is not very simple, go try it.