PINEAPPLE PEEL WINE
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Yet another Wine and Yet another New Year - a new beginning... or is it the same monotonous cycle of day in, day out? Anyway, let's begin this New Year with a Toast - 'HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023', with my home-made Pineapple Wine. Also, my blog 'ESSENCE OF LIFE - FOOD' is nearing its Seventh Anniversary in another 16 days on 17th January.
On the run this New Year Post turned out to be the 800th Post in Essence of Life - Food and as I noticed that the Statistics says that my Blog has crossed 1 Million Views. So, this Post, a Wine, suits well to be raised as a Toast for this occasion. With not much of overwhelming response or income, my hobby of blogging is still fuelled with my Passion. With quiet of a lot of other chores happening around me, this year turned out to be slow, and I spent very little of my quality time for my blog. Love what I am doing and Happy with what I yield out of it. I would like to Thank all my viewers on this occasion for all the support & encouragement.
Celebrating 1 Million+ Views for my Blog
Thanks for all the support and encouragement...
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Well, coming back to the recipe... If you have been reading my posts, then you may all know, that making a new wine each year and toasting it for Christmas & New Year had been a routine at home for years. This Pineapple Wine was the one I brewed during last Christmas Season, and it is ready for the toast this year. Though there are schools which believe in making quick-fix wines, I belong to the school where the thumb rule sticks to the norm - "Wines get better with Age". Patience is much appreciated while brewing a homemade Wine & it gets better as it ages.
Wine making has become a routine in my kitchen, with a few varieties of well brewed homemade wines always ready to be catered. Recently I re-bottled all my Wines from my collection. And seeing a wide range of collection, my son said, they are going to sue me for brewing Illicit Hooch! Ah! That sounded a bit gruesome. And all those bottles lined up, and used occasionally when a guest visits our house and in my baking, what was I doing with so much of Wines? As such, it all started as a hobby, backed up by my husband (but the irony is, he never drinks it just apart from tasting it.) The fact is, I do not drink or even like to taste the Wines, I make. I have professional wine tasters at my disposal... ha… ha… ha… just joking. My Wine tasters are my beloved hubby & kids.
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Believe it or not, I do not drink... Thinking, all the while - though it may not be a virtue of its own, it stayed as much as a preference, a personal choice.
The fun of a fermented liquid
Which spreads joy
Shrinks the Sorrows...
When it flows into my mouth
Slips past my tongue and
I won’t flinch, nor feel the after-burn left in its wake
Stories of peers who gathered for a booze
Who’s bottoms were up as was mine downing & drowning & gulping
Until all were washed away & all were sloshed
Would wake up to give an exact account of what transpired
And no one would fill in the blanks
The difference between a wine, brandy, whisky, vodka, gin, tequila or a rum
The volume of fluids in pegs, quarters, halves, full and a pint
If the glass is half empty, or half full and “flat”, “neat”, or “on the rocks”,
Whether to mix it with water, tonic, cola or an ale
The intoxication of a Soma Paanam brings
or the aftermath of a hangover
And whether my abstinence is a gift or a curse...
SM
Here's a very simple recipe for an old-fashioned wine made out of Pineapple Peels. This is a recipe from my old cook book which I had jotted down during my college days with an all sceptical idea, whether I would make a wine at all in my life and a wine with Pineapple Peels??? But it looked different and out of the box then. But life has taken me into a stroll where I am brewing wines in the name of illicit hooch, and it has become a hobby of my OWN!
This is a simple Pineapple Wine recipe with simple home-made wine making technique, but the
results are really awesome. And the colour which I got naturally from the brew took me offhand when I was shooting the pictures. The sunlight which probed into the wine glass gave it a wonderful and catchy spectacle with a golden hue!
Recipe Type - Wine
Difficulty - Medium
Yields - 3-4 Bottles
Author - SM
Preparation Time - 30 -45 Minutes
Brewing Time for Wine - 3 Months - 1 Year
HOMEMADE PINEAPPLE WINE
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INGREDIENTS:
For Pineapple Wine:
Pineapple & Pineapple Peels - 1 KgSugar - 1/2 Kg
Lemon - 1 No.
Boiling Water - 5 Litres
Cinnamon Sticks - 8-10 big pieces (Optional)
To Activate the Yeast:
Yeast - 1 Packet (11 Grams)
Sugar - 5 Teaspoons.
Warm Water - 1/3 Cup
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METHOD:
For Pineapple Peel Wine:
- Using a knife, slice off the top & bottom part of the Pineapple.
- Cut off the outer layer (the Peel) and reserve it.
- Slice the Pineapple and then cut it into small Pieces.
- Chop the Pineapple Peel into small pieces.
- Add the chopped Pineapples, Pineapple Peels, Sugar, and the Lemon in a large glass or ceramic jar.
- Pour 5 litres of boiling water into it and leave it aside for 12 hours.
- Activate the Yeast by putting it in warm water and 5 teaspoons of Sugar.
- Add activated yeast to the mix after 12 hours
- Can add some extra Sugar and few sticks of Cinnamon to add more sweetness and flavour to the Pineapple Peel Wine.
- Stir it every day for a week.
- After a week, strain and press the juice out of the mixture and bottle it.
- Keep the bottles tightly closed.
- Store them in a dark and dry place for about 3 months.
- Re-bottle the clear wine, leaving the sediments behind for another one month.
- The Pineapple Wine should be filtered properly at this stage.
- Taste the Pineapple Wine after two months, add sweetness and flavour if needed.
- Do the above process until there are no sediments left.
- Good quality Pineapples yields the best Pineapple Wine.
- Like most of the wines, it will improve with age.
NOTES:
- Cutting the Pineapples & its peels into small pieces will yield more flavour and body to the wine.
- Pineapples are naturally sweeter, so adjust the amount of sugar accordingly.
- I just used normal yeast, as it is very difficult to get wine yeast in my area.
- If you can get hold of Wine Yeast, go ahead with it and also can add Campden Tablets.
- Stirring the wine is very important for the fermenting process.
- Store them in clean and dry bottles in a moist free place.
- As I am staying in a tropical area, my wine brewed up sooner. But I strictly followed the regime.
- I did not use any artificial colours, food preservatives or enhancers in this Pineapple Wine.
- The colour and flavour, which I got naturally out of it, were more satisfying.
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