Glühwein (Gluwein) Recipe
If you want to make your own Glühwein, here’s my Glühwein recipe. This is the last Glühwein recipe you'll ever need. It's super-dee-duper easy.
Ingredients
- 1 bottle of red wine (don’t use the good stuff, you’re spicing it for Pete’s sake)
- 3/4 cup sugar or brown sugar (more or less to taste)
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 10 whole cloves (give or take)
- 1-2 Star anise (these babies pack a punch)
- 1 Orange
Instructions
- Cut the orange in half, and juice it into a medium saucepan.
- Shove the cloves into the orange and put the orange, cinnamon sticks and star anise into the pan.
- Add the wine and bring to a simmer over medium-low heat. DO NOT BOIL the Glühwein. Seriously. Don’t boil it. You’ll wreck it.
- Ta-Da . . . Glühwein!
Notes
There are hundreds of recipes and variations for spiced wine floating around the Internet. They’re all very similar, but vary little bit here and there by country and tradition.