If there isn't, pour out a bit of the strawberry juice to avoid overflowing during fermentation.
Make sure there's at least 4 inches of space for headroom in your fermentation vessel. To make your wine a bit less cloudy, you may want to strain some, though. If you're making it in a bucket, you can leave some of the mash and skins in your bucket for fermentation. If you're fermenting your strawberry wine in a glass gallon jug, strain the mash and skins out with a cheesecloth, then add the mixture to your gallon jug. Add the sugar and hot water, and stir well. Then, once thawed, place the berries in a large pot or bowl and crush them with a spoon or potato masher. If they're fresh, wash your strawberries well, chop them in halves, and remove the stems. If your strawberries are frozen, thaw them first in a large pot. This recipe makes approximately one gallon of delicious strawberry wine. Now that you know a little bit about the history of strawberry wine and what equipment to use, let's move on to the recipe. You can grab all of this in a winemaking starter kit.
You’ll also need an airlock and rubber stopper, which will make sure that carbonation can escape from your mead while it is fermenting, but also prevent anything bad from getting into your mead. If you don't have a glass carboy, any food-grade, sanitized gallon container will work. Now, let's get started! All the Equipment You’ll Needįirst, you’ll need a 2 gallon bucket, or a glass 1 gallon carboy - this is where you'll store your strawberry wine while it ferments. Otherwise, using frozen strawberries will do the trick as well - they tend to be picked riper than their store-bought, fresh counterparts, and once thawed, they'll make very flavorful wine. If you're lucky enough to live close to a strawberry bush, we definitely recommend picking some wild strawberries and using them to make wine. The rose family are characterized by small, flavorful berries and thorny, wild brambles (meant to protect all that delicious flavor from predators). Just like their cousins, raspberries and blackberries, strawberries belong to the rose family of plants. So gather up some strawberries (frozen or fresh is fine!) and we'll get started with this classic summer favorite. Luckily, it's a lot easier than you'd think to make strawberry wine at home - and it turns out delicious, as well. Strawberry wine - we've all heard it mentioned in country songs, so isn't it fitting that we'd want to try it at some point? (Thanks, Deanna Carter and Chris Stapleton).īut when you look around a liquor or wine store, it's very rare you'll find a bottle of it.
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