Homemade Ginger Wine

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Homemade Ginger Wine

May 21, 2012 by Mareena Jerrish

Here’s the recipe of Homemade Ginger Wine, a mildly hot and sweet wine which can be made in just 3 days!!!!

Homemade Ginger Wine
Source: My Mom

Ingredients

Ginger chopped finely- 250 gms
Sugar- 1250 gms
Water- 2 litres
Yeast- 1/2 teaspoon
Dry Red chillies- 3-4
Citric Acid- 20 gms

Method

Boil the chopped ginger along with sugar, broken red chillies and water for 5 minutes. Let cool. Strain the mixture and add the yeast and citric acid. Stir well to ensure that the citric acid crystals are dissolved. Transfer to an air tight container and keep for 3 days. Your wine is ready..

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Posted in All Recipes, Drinks, Wine | Tagged Drinks, Ginger Wine, Homemade Ingredient, Quick to Make Recipes, Wine | 33 Comments

33 Responses

on May 22, 2012 at 7:01 am | Reply Anonymous

mareena do we need to use glass container?
- on May 22, 2012 at 7:03 am | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  Sonia, Glass containers should do for this..
on June 23, 2012 at 12:17 am | Reply 3 days?

3 days?
- on June 23, 2012 at 7:37 am | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  Yes
on October 27, 2012 at 11:28 pm | Reply Janet Henderson

How long will this keep for if stored in plastic bottles?
- on October 28, 2012 at 7:18 am | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  Hi Janet,
  I have read somewhere that wine stored in plastic bottles starts to deteriorate after eight months. I have always used glass bottles.. Hope this helps
  - on October 28, 2012 at 8:18 pm Anonymous
    
    Thanks for that, also wondering what kind of yeast to use, does it have to be wine making yeast or will normal baking yeast do?
  - on October 28, 2012 at 9:29 pm Mareena Jerrish
    
    Baking yeast will do just fine.
on October 28, 2012 at 10:02 pm | Reply Janet Henderson

Thank just one last question, is this non alcoholic, have been looking at a few recipes getting quite confused
- on October 29, 2012 at 7:06 am | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  From what I know fermented wine is alcoholic…so this should come under the alcoholic category. Hope this helps…Btw, feel free to ask away all questions..Shall try and answer them to the best of my knowledge..Take care!!!
on November 16, 2012 at 6:22 pm | Reply Aby

Hi Mareena, Could you please tell us how to prepare home made grape wine?
- on November 16, 2012 at 8:54 pm | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  Aby,
  
  I have sent a mail to the mail id given along with the comment. Please confirm the receipt.
on December 2, 2012 at 5:39 pm | Reply Anonymous

Hi…3 days, you mean 72 hours? Thks
- on December 2, 2012 at 6:37 pm | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  Yes
on December 9, 2012 at 1:16 pm | Reply Anonymous

tks!! having lived in kerala for some time, was lukin out for this receipe, will try it,!!!Merry X’mas
- on December 9, 2012 at 2:17 pm | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  Merry Xmas to you as well
on December 11, 2012 at 3:27 pm | Reply Michelle

HI Mareena,
Thanks a lot for the easy recipe… Juat wanted to confirm with you if 1250 gms sugar is actually necessary for 250 gms ginger?? Or will 500 gms do?? Thanks in advance for the reply
- on December 11, 2012 at 4:06 pm | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  Michelle,
  Yes 1250 gms sugar for 250 gms ginger…
  - on December 17, 2012 at 12:28 pm Michelle
    
    Hey Mareena, I did try out the ginger wine recipe.. But i have no clue what went wrong.I opened it yesterday(after 3 days), and we tasted it. But it was tooo sweet and it didn’t feel like wine. I mean it felt like a concentrated ginger drink and my husband actually added water to it and drank it saying…don’t worry u can give it to guests when they come.. just take a little of it and dilute…. :’( Can you pls help me on that… For 1250gms sugar, i added 6 1/4 cups of sugar (as i didn’t have a kitchen weighing scale) … yeast just as told , I added just half a teaspoon. And yeah instead of citric acid i added lemon juice. Pls advice me on what correction to make.. .This was my first attempt..Didn’t work out well though… Hope to get your reply..
  - on December 17, 2012 at 2:04 pm Mareena Jerrish
    
    1 cup sugar- 225 gms. So 1250 gms should have been 5.5 cups of sugar. As for using lemon juice instead of citric acid, I am not sure if its ok as I have never tried it. As for the sweetness I can say that you may have added more sugar. This is the recipe my mom has been following for years and some of the readers have tried it out successfully. Better luck next time…:-)
  - on December 17, 2012 at 3:17 pm Michelle
    
    oops.. so that means i added almost 1 cup extra.. hmm… Well…I’ll surely try this out again with less sugar.. ..
on December 17, 2012 at 4:12 pm | Reply Michelle

Thanks..
- on December 17, 2012 at 5:05 pm | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  you are most welcome dear Michelle
on December 24, 2012 at 9:26 pm | Reply Anonymous

Thanks for the recipe
- on December 26, 2012 at 8:00 am | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  You are welcome
on January 19, 2013 at 12:51 pm | Reply faizal hamsa

Dear Mareena,

could you pls send me the grape wine preparation also

my mail id is : faizalhamsa@gmail.com

Thanks in advance
- on January 19, 2013 at 2:31 pm | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  Sent you the recipe. Please check your mail.
on April 25, 2013 at 12:08 pm | Reply anoop thomas

mam,
could u sent me different types of wine recipe? especially dry fruits
- on April 25, 2013 at 1:32 pm | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  Hi Anoop,
  
  Shall try and send when possible
on April 29, 2013 at 1:22 am | Reply juies

good
- on April 29, 2013 at 6:55 am | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  Thank you
on April 30, 2013 at 3:16 pm | Reply Regina

We have been thinking of making grape wine for some time now. I read in the comments that you have sent the recipe to a few people. Could you send it to me as well?!
- on April 30, 2013 at 8:59 pm | Reply Mareena Jerrish
  
  Shall try and send it when I get time Regina.