Braga came to us from time immemorial. It is not known for certain exactly when this intoxicated drink was discovered. But it’s exactly that a very long time ago. From time immemorial people have been able to prepare an invigorating drink with the help of yeast. It is not difficult to do this in our time, at home.
Braga is drunk as an independent drink, moonshine is made from it using special devices. There are several ways to make mash.
Pick your recipe
You will need
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- 3 liters of water
- 1-3 kg of granulated sugar
- 1 pack of baker's yeast or 300 grams of live
- 400 grams of round unwashed Krasnodar rice.
Instruction manual
1
Cooking mash is easy. Dissolve the yeast in warm water, stirring thoroughly. Then add granulated sugar to the same bowl. Stir again until sugar is completely dissolved. Now put the resulting liquid in a warm place. Under the influence of heat, the fermentation process will begin.
From time to time it is necessary to look after the braga - is it not very foaming, is it ready. When the fermentation becomes very weak, the mash can be used to distill the moonshine.
2
Braga is also prepared using not dry, but live yeast. To do this, take 1 liter of water per 1 kg of sugar and 100 grams of live yeast. Sugar should be thoroughly dissolved in warm water, stirring constantly. The water temperature should be 20-30 degrees.
Then cut the yeast into small pieces, chop, mix evenly with a little sugar. So you have prepared the sourdough. When gas evolution begins, it is ready.
After this, mix the sourdough with the warm water in which you previously dissolved the sugar. From above, the container in which all this is contained must be covered and put in a warm place. Preparing mash should stand in this form for 10-12 days. After that, she will be ready.
3
Braga is different, including similar to pink champagne. You can drink such mash with pleasure. But she is very drunk. Try to cook.
Dissolve 1 kg of granulated sugar in 3 l of warm water, then dissolve 25 g of yeast in the same place. Pour 400 g of round Krasnodar rice with the resulting liquid. Rice before this is not necessary to wash. Then insist on this yeast for 9 days.
After the leaven is infused, add red currants to it. It will take about 2-3 tablespoons of berries. After this, the mash should be infused for another 9 days. And only then can the hoppy drink be bottled, drunk, treat them to guests.
Useful advice
Before drinking mash, it must be filtered. Braga can be poured into a jug, at the bottom of which lies ice. So it will be tastier.
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