Swedish Glögg

Ingredients

• One bottle of red wine
• 1 tablespoon of liquor
• 20 cloves of allspice
• 5 cinnamon sticks
• 1 tablespoon of ground cardamom seeds
• One piece of ginger
• 1 teaspoon of grapefruit zest (or orange zest)
• 2 tablespoons of sugar
• 1 1/2 cups of vanilla sugar
• 5 liters of light beverage
• 2.5 kg of sugar
• 50 g of yeast
• 2 bags of whole carrot seeds
• 1 packet of cardamom seeds
• 1-2 small pieces of dried ginger, whole
• 500 g of grapes
• 3 raw, peeled, and sliced apples

Chop the cinnamon sticks into small pieces and place all the spices in a container.

Keep the spices away.

Mix the yeast with a small amount of water.

Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl.

Let it rest and ferment for 3 weeks, covering the container with a towel.

Prepare the glögg and pour it into clean bottles.

Store for approximately 1 year.