1. Soak the hawthorn in salt water a little, then wash it, remove the handle, dig the pedicle and dry it thoroughly.
2. Put the processed hawthorn and rock sugar into a clean glass sealed jar without water and oil, and pour in the wine. Don't use plastic. It doesn't matter if it's not sealed. Just cover the bottle cap.
3. Keep it in a dark and dry place. If there is turbidity or pulp loss, it is suggested that the hawthorn be fished out after 1 month, filtered and then stored.
After the color of hawthorn is dissolved in the wine, you can start drinking. But it will taste better if it is put for about 3 months to half a year.
Wine above 5.35 degrees can be preserved for one or two years at room temperature. If the degree of wine is low, it is recommended to put it in the refrigerator after the color of wine turns red.
Matters needing attention in self-made hawthorn wine.
When you make your own wine, there are many places to pay attention to. After all, every time you make wine, at least one catty of white wine should be used as the base wine. In order to avoid waste, we still need to be careful step by step in the process of brewing to avoid failure. So, what are the precautions for homemade hawthorn wine?
1. Wash and dry the fruit. Be sure to dry it. Why? Because too much water will dilute the degree of wine and affect the taste of wine, just like adding water.
2, you can add lemon slices stripped of white meridians to add flavor. You can also put half a vanilla pod or cinnamon stick.
3. Choose wine brewed with colorless and transparent grains.
Second, the efficacy and role of homemade hawthorn wine.
Winter in the north is very cold. Gentlemen at home will drink those two glasses of white wine to warm themselves up and drive away the cold. So every household will brew some wine as a reserve, whether it is for drinking or entertaining guests. So, what is the efficacy and function of hawthorn wine? Hawthorn is a fruit medicine. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, it can help digestion, promote qi circulation, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Can be used for treating various food retention, especially greasy meat and other foods, and can also be used for treating various blood stasis pains.
Hawthorn can also strengthen the heart, lower blood pressure, resist arrhythmia, reduce blood fat, prevent arteriosclerosis and reduce blood fat. At the same time, a small amount of traditional Chinese liquor has a warming effect, which can properly exercise people's resistance. Therefore, hawthorn wine has both the efficacy of liquor and hawthorn.
Third, homemade hawthorn wine is not suitable for anyone to drink.
We all know that hawthorn is not suitable for everyone, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are not suitable for eating more hawthorn. Of course, there are still many people who are not suitable. But after hawthorn is made into wine, who is not suitable for drinking? Let's take a look. Hawthorn wine has the functions of promoting digestion, promoting qi and blood circulation, and removing blood stasis. But because it contains alcohol and sugar. So diabetics can't eat it. In addition, women who are menstruating or pregnant are not allowed to drink alcohol, so drinking alcohol is prohibited in hawthorn wine.