The real Georgian chacha is quality home-made vodka. For its preparation use grape cake or the ground berries. Except grapes use also other fruits: apricots, cherry plum, fig.
For preparation of the real Georgian chacha in house conditions it is desirable to take the grape cake which remained after production of wine as a basis. It needs to be placed in a volume bowl or a large bottle with a wide neck, to fill in with boiled water, to fill up with sugar. On 7.5 kg of cake 2.5 l of water of room temperature, 2.5 kg of sugar are necessary. The received mix needs to be covered food wrap or dense, to leave in the warm place for a week. Mix will wander, it it is necessary to stir slowly one - twice a day. The whole berries (not cake) need previously to be ground, and then to carry out all above-mentioned actions.
If for preparation grapes, but not cake are used, then it is recommended to take dark grades. Chacha turns out strong and saturated if berries are selected slightly immature.
After time the emerged alburnum is removed at first a skimmer, then filter home brew through a clean gauze. It is necessary to leave already peeled future chacha to reach for day in the warm place. It is optional cover dense, but it is desirable not to spoil preparation.
Already prepared home brew needs to be overtaken via the special moonshine still. Hard home-made alcoholic beverages can seldom be made without it. The Georgian recipe means double distillation of home brew as so chacha turns out really high quality and strong (to 80 degrees). But on it preparation doesn't come to an end. After distillation, clean drink spreads on bottles, closed and cleans up to ripen for 1.5-2 months. Only after this time the Georgian chacha is considered ready. When uncapping a bottle, drink has to have saturated grape aroma. Despite the fortress, chacha has also pleasant, not sharp smack of berries.
Check chacha for quality so: moisten in it a finger, then bring the burning match. If at a dogoraniye the flame doesn't burn down skin, then drink is made correctly, and its quality is high.
Industrial chacha is produced with a strength no more than 60-70 degrees, seldom has strong grape aroma. House, prepared according to the traditional Georgian recipe, maybe very strong (80 degrees), and average – 50-70. Correctly made and matured chacha doesn't cause a hangover in the morning if it was used moderately, naturally. Besides in small amounts drink has improving effect: calms nervous system, stimulates and accelerates digestive process, stops cell aging process. Chacha is made of apricots and cherry plum in the similar way, but berries are soaked previously in warm water (1-2 days), then crushed. Only after that they are filled up with sugar, left for 5 days for emergence of juice, and already then only filled in with water and left to wander. All other stages of preparation are similar the aforesaid. Berry chacha surely has to possess saturated aroma of berries of which it was made. Otherwise drink is considered low-quality.