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okay, so i said on the intro thread we wanted to do cherry wine. We're using this recipe and also using bottled water instead of tap water. We started it off tonight.
Shall i let you know how we get on?
Cherry Wine Recipe
Ingredients:
6 lb cherries
Campden tablets
2 ½ lbs sugar
Wine yeast
Nutrient
Water
Method:
Remove the stalks from the cherries and rinse.
Put into a fermenting bin and crush..
Pour on 4 pints of boiling water. When cool, add 1 Campden tablet, crushed and dissolved in a little warm water.
Boil all of the sugar in 4 pints of water for 2 or 3 minutes and, when cool, mix into the pulp.
Add the yeast and nutrient and cover and allow to ferment for a week, stirring daily.
Strain and press and return to a clean fermenting bin.
Cover again and leave for 3 or 4 days.
Pour through a fine sieve carefully into a gallon jar, leaving as much deposit behind as possible.
Fill up the jar with cooled, boiled water to where the neck begins.
Fit a fementation lock and leave until fermentation has finished.
Rack, as necessary, adding a Campden tablet after the first racking.
Syphon into bottles.
Makes 1 gallon of wine.
This is a pic of my husband getting stuck in!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6046898&l=541b94a655&id=568396756
Shall i let you know how we get on?
Cherry Wine Recipe
Ingredients:
6 lb cherries
Campden tablets
2 ½ lbs sugar
Wine yeast
Nutrient
Water
Method:
Remove the stalks from the cherries and rinse.
Put into a fermenting bin and crush..
Pour on 4 pints of boiling water. When cool, add 1 Campden tablet, crushed and dissolved in a little warm water.
Boil all of the sugar in 4 pints of water for 2 or 3 minutes and, when cool, mix into the pulp.
Add the yeast and nutrient and cover and allow to ferment for a week, stirring daily.
Strain and press and return to a clean fermenting bin.
Cover again and leave for 3 or 4 days.
Pour through a fine sieve carefully into a gallon jar, leaving as much deposit behind as possible.
Fill up the jar with cooled, boiled water to where the neck begins.
Fit a fementation lock and leave until fermentation has finished.
Rack, as necessary, adding a Campden tablet after the first racking.
Syphon into bottles.
Makes 1 gallon of wine.
This is a pic of my husband getting stuck in!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6046898&l=541b94a655&id=568396756