Fruit wines are popular throughout the world in the except the areas where drinking wine is prohibited. Pineapple wine is one of the popular fruit wines.
How to make pineapple wine at home?
Homemade Pineapple wine recipe:
1 pineapple
2 cups sugar
2 cups water
½ tsp dry yeast
1 egg white (slightly beaten by hand or machine)
1 small piece of dry ginger
4-5 cloves
Small piece of cinnamon stick
How to prepare pineapple wine?
Wash the pineapple, cut into small pieces
Mash it and later mix with yeast adding 2 tbsp of warm water.
Leaving it for 10 minutes.
Take a large container, mix pineapple water, yeast, egg white and other spices mentioned above.
When this mixture is ready, cover the container with a towel and then place the lid onto it.
Choose a dark place where there is no sunlight or any sort of light.
Keep in the dark place for two weeks, shake the jar once after every alternate days
Filter the wine using a cloth.
After filtering keep it for another week in a dark place.
You may drink it now.
Kerala/Indian easy pineapple wine recipe:
1kg pineapple
5 bottles of water
2 kg sugar
2tbsp yeast
How to prepare Kerala/Indian pineapple wine?
Wash the pineapples and cut into small pieces.
Make sure you don’t remove skin!
Boil it for around 5 minutes in water and add 1 kg sugar.
Add yeast when it cools down.
Store it in an air tight mud vessel or any container.
Stir the mixture daily by using a wooden spoon or tool.
Keep it for around 21 days then filter it using a fine cloth.
Make sure you don’t squeeze in any contents.
Add the remaining mixture to the content.
Store it for another 21 days to obtain a clear pineapple wine.
Pineapple wine with a twist:
1 and a ½ cup of pine apple and orange juice
1 bottle of white wine (chilled)
You may even use homemade pineapple wine rather than white wine and skip pineapple juice. It’s up to you how strong you want the flavor to be.
½ cup strawberries, thinly sliced.
How to prepare Pineapple wine with a twist?
Take a container or pitcher, mix both the juices using a spoon.
Take a glass half filled with white wine or pineapple wine
Fill the rest of the half glass with the juice mixture.
Garnish it with thinly sliced strawberries, you may even add strawberries add the bottom of the glass, so the strawberry flavor could blend in.
You may use berries as well to garnish like blue berries etc.
You can always experiment with flavors when it comes to wine, just make sure the amount you put in is right as you need to be careful when it comes to wine, it might turn sour or bitter if you make any sort of mistake.