Pear wine is a homemade wine made from fermented pears, often using cooking pears like Bradford or Kieffer. Making fruit wine from pears requires adjusting sugar and acidity levels, and approximately 22 pounds of pears are needed to make 5 gallons of pear wine. Pear wine is also available for sale online and is popular in Japan and China, where it is sometimes made with Asian pears.
Pear wine is generally a form of homemade wine made from fermented pears. Wine can be made from many different fruits and other plants, and pear wine, like dandelion or potato wine, is one of the little-known wine recipes that is easy to make and fun to taste. Pears are also used to make a form of mead, which is an alcohol that involves fermenting honey and water with pears.
Cooking with pears first requires getting the right kind of pears. Like many fruit wines, pear wine calls for the picking of a pear variety most suitable for winemaking, as pears can be of the general cooking, canning, or food variety. Pears best suited to pear wine are known cooking pears of the harder variety, such as Bradford or Kieffer pears, Pyrus calleryana Bradford and Pyrus calleryana Kieffer. The other ingredients needed to make pear wine are commonplace and include white sugar, yeast, and lemon and orange juices. Pectic enzyme is also required, which prevents the wine from becoming cloudy from undissolved pectin deposits.
Making fruit wine from pears is a little more difficult than making homemade wine from grapes due to the fact that sugar and acidity levels need to be adjusted for different types of fruit. Grapes are naturally suited to winemaking as they have near-ideal sugar and acidity levels, while other fruits are not. The size differences of the fruit also make a difference. Approximately 22 pounds of pears (10 kilograms) are required to make 5 gallons (19 liters) of pear wine, where as something like blueberries would only require 13 pounds of blueberries (6 kilograms) to make five gallons of blueberry wine.
With the spread of different fruit and wine varieties by commercial producers, pear wine is now available for sale on the Internet. Wineries often blend other flavors in their pear wine productions, such as honey, gooseberries, and almonds to give them unique flavors. Asian wines are often based on other fruits as well.
Pear wine and plum wine are popular in Japan and China, although they cannot yet compete with the consumption of traditional rice wines. Japanese fruit wines are sometimes made with Asian pears, a watery pear that isn’t a true cross between a pear and an apple. The apple-pear is yellow-orange in color, like an apple in shape and taste, but it is a species of pear tree known as Pyrus pyrifolia.
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