How to Make the Best Ginger Wine for Christmas in 12 days /Also non-alcoholic wine / Easy recipe

sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: brown sugar

Honey adds a unique flavor while reducing refined sugar content.

fresh ginger

🥗Healthier: ground ginger

💰Cheaper: ginger powder

Ground ginger is more accessible and has a longer shelf life.

Sanitize all equipment including containers, utensils, spoons, and funnel with warm soapy water and rinse with boiling hot water.

Take 100 g of ginger, scrape away the skin, wash it, and roughly crush it using a pestle and mortar.

Chop 80 g of raisins roughly.

Measure 320 g (1.5 cups) of brown sugar, and prepare 3 cloves, 4 cardamom pods (cracked open), and 1 small cinnamon stick.

Zest half of the orange and half of the sour lime, and juice both the orange and lime.

Boil 1.25 L of water on high heat, then add the ginger, raisins, spices, lime zest, orange zest, and brown sugar. Stir well.

Once the mixture comes to a boil, reduce heat to low and let it boil for 30 minutes.

After 30 minutes, stir in 0.5 tsp of citric acid and turn off the heat. Let the mixture cool to room temperature.

Once cooled, stir in the lime juice and orange juice.

If making non-alcoholic ginger wine, strain the mixture now and bottle it, storing it in the fridge to consume within 7 days.

For traditional ginger wine, bloom the yeast by adding 0.5 tsp of sugar and 0.25 tsp of yeast to 2 tbsp of warm water. Cover and let it sit for 10 minutes.

Transfer the ginger mixture to a ceramic jar, add the bloomed yeast, and stir well. Ensure there is breathing space above the mixture.

Cover the jar with a clean cloth secured with a string or rubber band, and loosely place the lid on top. Let it ferment for 7 days in a dark place.

On day 4, stir the mixture with a sterilized spoon and cover it again.

After 7 days, sanitize equipment again and strain the liquid into a sterilized vessel using a sterilized strainer lined with a thin cotton napkin.

Transfer the filtered wine to a sterilized wide-mouthed glass bottle (900 mL capacity) and fix the lid loosely.

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