July 8, 2009

Making Umeshu / 梅酒を作る

A friend of mine came over the other day with a kilogram of plums and said "let's make plum wine!" You throw rock sugar, plums, and some alcohol in a jar and in 3 months you have delicious plum wine!


この間友達が梅を1キロ持ってきて「梅酒作ろう」って言った。砂糖、梅、酒をビンに入れて三ヶ月が経ったらおいし~い梅酒が完成!

Wash plums and puncture the skin with a fork so the juice will come out.

Dry them well.

Layer them in the bottle with sugar

We made one with brandy and one with Japanese sake

Adding honey to the brandy version to make it a bit sweeter

In goes the good stuff!

Me adding sake to my bottle

This is more or less how it went into the closet for 3 months :) I'll put another post up when I know how it tastes :D