Barberry Wine - Inebriated Benefits

Meanwhile, wine from barberry was prepared in ancient Sumer. Confirmation of this was the discovery of clay jugs that kept wine. Among the huge number of vessels with a grape drink there were also containers from barberry wine.

Collecting raw materials

Barberry drinks are used at home for all parts of barberry, but you need to know when to properly prepare them. Each part of the plant is harvested in its time:

• berries - late autumn, often after the first frost;
• leaves - in the spring at the beginning of the bud opening;
• roots - after the plant discards the leaves;
• bark - in the middle of summer with growth sprigs this year.

Warning! In order to soften the berries and remove the bitterness from them, it is necessary to collect berries of barberry after frost. If the fruits are collected before the cold, they need to stand for several hours in the freezer.

After collecting raw materials for cooking wine from barberry at home, be sure to carefully browse the berries and other parts of the plant. Do not allow spoiled fruit, roots, or rotten leaves to fall into the total mass.

Tip! She's a rotten berry that can kill a big bottle of wine. Remember the proverbial spoon of tar.

Recipes

Here we have reached the most delicious - recipes for alcoholic drinks from barberry. Here we will give recipes for wines, tinctures and liquors from various parts of the plant, join us!

Simple wine

This recipe for wine from barberry we called simple, because its preparation is similar in many respects to the preparation of an intoxicating drink from other berries. For its preparation we will need:

• berries - 1 kilogram;
• sugar - 1,5 kg;
• water - 5 liters.

So much water and sugar is used because the fruits of barberry themselves are not succulent and sweet.

The wine is prepared using this technology:

1. Berries fall asleep in an enamel pot and pour water.
2. Heat the water with berries to about 60-70 degrees and turn off the heat.
3. We keep the berries at this temperature for half an hour. This is necessary to soften the skin and the flesh of barberry.
4. When the contents of the saucepan cool down to 25-30 degrees, we will pour it into the fermentation vessel. There, too, pour out the sugar and pour in the water.
5. For fermentation add a small amount of fresh berries barberry, crushed grapes or raisins.
6. Put a water seal or put on a glove.
7. Remove to a dark place with a temperature of 18 to 25 degrees Celsius.

After this, you need to shake the container a few times a week. Finally, the fermentation process will be completed in 30-50 days, after which the wine will have to be drained from the remainder and poured over clean bottles.

This home made barberry wine is very useful for women and men to strengthen their health, in particular, from colds. It is also indicated for the treatment of female and male intimal diseases.

By the way! Many winemakers are successfully replacing the water gate with rubber gloves, balloons and other rubber-technical products.

Fortified wines retain their properties for a longer time than dry and semisweet, and are stored for years, especially if well hidden:)

This wine is prepared with a preliminary preparation of the leaven. The whole process is divided into stages:

1. Take a hundred grams of dried berries barberry and raisins.
2. We scroll through the meat grinder.
3. Add two tablespoons of sugar and fill with a liter of warm water.
4. We maintain the leaven at room temperature for three days.
5. In the fermentation tank we fall asleep berries and sugar( per 1 kg of berries - 1.3 kg of sugar).
6. We pour the leaven.
7. Add water( five liters per kilogram of berry).
8. We put in a dark warm place under the water seal.
9. After fermentation, after about a month, strain the wine.
10. We fasten the drink with vodka( 350-400 grams per liter) or alcohol( 120-150).
11. We pour on bottles, cork and store in a lying position in the secret corner of our wine cellar.

Tinctures on the roots

To treat diseases of the stomach and warming rubbing apply tincture from the roots of barberry. Recipes for tinctures are much simpler than wine, judge for yourself:

1. Harvested roots shake from the soil, they can not be washed.
2. Cut the roots into small pieces.
3. Fill spines with alcohol based on 100 milliliters of pure alcohol per thirty grams of roots.

Infusion takes place within 3-4 weeks, after which you can drink 20-30 drops before meals.

Other tinctures of

Similarly, other tinctures are made, only the proportion of raw materials and alcohol varies:

• leaves and buds - 15 grams per 100 milliliters of alcohol;
• bark - 15 grams pour 150 grams of vodka;
• berries - 30 grams and 100 milliliters of vodka.

Insisting lasts from two to five weeks.

Tip! Take tinctures from the parts of barberry should be carefully, it is advisable to consult with a doctor.

Liquor

To prepare a thick and tart liquor from barberry you need to take the following ingredients:

• berries of barberry - 1 kilogram;
• sugar - 50 grams;
• alcohol or moonshine 50% - 1 liter;
• vanilla pod - 1 piece, in extreme cases, you can add a packet of vanilla sugar( 8 grams);
• piece of dried ginger.

This number of products is sufficient for the preparation of two liters of liquor, so you should prepare a two-liter jar. The cooking process is as follows:

1. Add frozen berries to barberry.
2. We'll also throw a vanilla pod.
3. Salting the alcohol.
4. Add sugar.
5. Fill all with alcohol and close the lid.

You need to insist on the liqueur in two steps. After the lapse of the first month, it is necessary to strain the drink through a sieve, while the berries need to be wrung out. After filtering through several layers of gauze or cotton wool, the drink is poured into bottles.

The second month of liquor infusion is bottled, after which it can be used exclusively for medicinal purposes.

Another recipe for barberry tincture in a short video: