From How to make Kilju (finnish homemade wine) in Hagen, posted by Marc Dusseiller Dusjagr on 6/21/2011 (22 items)
- Material you need to make Kilju: Water Sugar SuperHiiva (thats special Yeast from Fin...
- Get some water, either clean bottled or Hagen-style directly collected from the rook ...
- Thats the SuperHiiva, special Yeast that makes alcohol from sugar in only 28 hours. u...
- Add the right amount of SuperHiiva to to sugarwater. for instant 28 h Kiljiu, the rig...
- Stir the final mixture until all the yeast is dissolved.
- Fill it into the bottles.
- A funnel comes in handy to fill the mixture into the small opening of bottles
- close the bottles tightly
- wait... the fermentation works by itself, make sure its not to cold and not too hot. ...
- lable the bottle, so you can remember what was in there (sorry, i am a lab geek)
- Get the sugar out... its 1 kg for 5 l of water, as long as you want to get the Kilju ...
- dissolve the sugar in the handwarm water (30-35°)
- Make sure the water is not too warm. Handwarm means its nice to touch, not warmer tha...
- First bubbles sighted...
- lighting the fire... naaiiice.
- Keeping the Kilju cozy and warm, makes the bubbles come. (even older Finnish Kilju wi...
- Bottles are almost exploding... Got to make new caps to release the pressure. luckily...
- also got some tubes, tightly stuck into the hole. and then adding some vodka a a trap...
- Aaaahh, now nice bubbling sounds from the different resonators....
- mmmhhh a bubble. that means wine is produced at this very moment by the yeast aka Sup...
- If you dont really like the yeasty flavour (and the probably running belly) just put ...
- It's finally done, and ready to drink. Took a bit longer than I expected, maybe due t...
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