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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.
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Course: Drinks
Ingredients Method Notes

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

Method
 

  1. Cut the orange in half, and juice it into a medium saucepan.
  2. Shove the cloves into the orange and put the orange, cinnamon sticks and star anise into the pan.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.