Chacha of wine - strong flavored drink that can be drunk neat, is not drinking water.
Chacha in the Caucasus can be called any strong grape wine, but more often under this name refers to a type of strong drink brandy. The main difference is the process of cooking - brewed wine and matures and chacha obtained by distillation.
In western Georgia, chacha is usually served as an aperitif and a snack of fresh fruit and chocolate.
In other regions, chacha used to prepare delicious alcoholic cocktails. But no matter where he was made the drink, he is always distinguished by its mild taste interesting, despite the fact that its strength is often as high as 50%.
Despite the many recipes, it is considered the best of the wine grape chacha. Of ripe grapes especially good cooking wine, and only then it is already distilled. Quality drink matures in oak barrels for several years, so it is usually prepared in large quantities.
Recipe for Chachi OF WINE
Ingredients:
- Grape wine - 10 liters
- Sugar - 1 kg
Cooking method:
to prepare chacha from wine grapes must be well ripe, with no signs of damage and rot.
Although work still have to wash the berries do not need for a better fermentation. Grapes are well kneaded and using a strainer or colander, select all bones.
Going through a large number of grapes, use gloves - fruit acids strongly corrosive to the skin. Kneading through a juicer or grinder is undesirable, since in this case the seeds fall into the wine.
Before you do prepare chacha container, which will need to shift the pulp. This may be a small wooden cask or milk cans, wherein the beverage will wander. Depending on the grape variety, the wine can be prepared with sugar or without. If you are using are not very sweet berries, you can add a little sugar. Stir Braga need daily, as long as it will wander in a warm place. Use a plastic or wooden spoon with a long handle, metal instruments are oxidized and give the drink an unpleasant taste.
Braga for the pulp of wine must ferment for 3-4 days, after which it will need to strain through a sieve or colander. You can use cheesecloth or a fine mesh. Filtered wort is poured into glass jars or cans, with a milky odor trap.
If you take a glass jar, instead of the water trap can be used conventional medical gloves. In one of the fingers make a small incision through which will go carbon dioxide.
The wine should be poured gently using a funnel, so as not to raise the sediment. On request, and the pellet can be diluted with water, add sugar and put to ferment - from this mixture can get a good raw alcohol. For this recipe from Chachi drink wine second fermentation is not appropriate.
When the wine is ready and well protsezheno from the pulp and sludge can begin to drink distilled.
This recipe chacha from wine cooked with sugar - to 1 liter of fluid will need to add 100 grams of sugar. You need to add sugar at once. Divide the sugar into equal portions and add it in stages - at 4, 7 and 10 days. Thanks to this technology the wine will actively roam and not zakisnet.
Recipe Chacha from double distillation of wine
You can decide how to prepare chacha of wine - it can be single or double distillation. For a quality drink, it is best to double-distilled wine. After the first distillation, clean the drink - an ordinary activated carbon can be used for this purpose.
The second distillation should be carried out with a cut-off head and tail fractions. Approximately 10% of the total amount of liquid at the beginning and end of the distillation should be poured. This will allow to prepare chacha really passed the quality of the beverage, which is never a headache and no unpleasant symptoms of a hangover. Finished grape chacha double distillation again is well filtered and poured into a bowl for maturation. Infuse chacha need at least a month - then flavored drink can be tasted.
As an appetizer for the drink, you can use a variety of dishes - it all depends on your personal preference. For Chachi equally good pickles and marinades, hot meat dishes and sweet snacks.
Drink it made in its pure form from small glasses.
Before use, it is desirable to cool slightly and add some ice.
Enjoy!
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