Chokeberry (aroniya) – tasty and tart berry that is very valuable to house winemaking. However fragrant black-purple fruits lack juiciness and acid to receive from them rather strong drink. It is possible to make chokeberry wine on apple juice, then the aroniya will give to taste of the final product force and depth, to alcohol - necessary degree.
Mountain ash wine: preparation of raw materials and water lock
To make chokeberry wine on apple juice, it is necessary to pick the ripe, but not softened to a condition of "potato" apples. Fruits should be washed out, removed carefully cores, to cut on slices and to pass via the juice extractor.
On the ten-liter glass large bottle filled with fresh juice "on a coat hanger" there will be enough 1 kg of a chokeberry. The ripe aroniya needs to be kneaded a wooden pestle to a condition of gruel and to mix with apple juice then to add to the received mix granulated sugar at the rate of 200 g on liquid liter.
It is important that at wine fermentation in house conditions drink wasn't poured from capacity therefore it is necessary to put on a rubber glove a neck of a large bottle or to make a simple water lock. It represents a tight cover with an opening and a rubber tube which end is lowered in the ware standing nearby with water.
Existence of a rowan will accelerate fermentation of apple juice, at the same time the mashed berry will become good absorbent and will incorporate a suspension – domestic wine from a chokeberry will become transparent.
Filtration and pouring of mountain ash wine
Approximately in one and a half months the wine fermentation from a rowan on apple juice will stop. The turned-out young drink needs to be merged accurately by means of a hose, to try and add sugar to taste. For a stop of process of wine fermentation in house conditions it is necessary to add 50 g of vodka or 25 g of alcohol on all volume of liquid then to let drink stand a few weeks more.
Upon termination of this stage mountain ash wine needs to be poured on clean bottles, to cork them and to send for storage in a cellar or the cold storeroom. Chokeberry wine on apple juice turns out slightly rough, a pleasant sweet-sour flavor and dark red color. On the same technology it is possible to do alcoholic drink on apple juice with a mespilus, a bird cherry and a red rowan.