Apple Wine (Home Made Wine Recipes)

Member Name: janharper

Product:	Home Made Wine Recipes
Date:	03/06/01 (3780 review reads)
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Disadvantages: takes time

This simple recipe makes 5 litres of light white wine.

What you need:
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3kg dessert apples
2kg cooking apples
Campden tablets x 2 (Wilikinsons sell these)
Pectin enzyme 15g (Wilkinsons)
White sugar 1.25 kg
Wine yeast
Water

Glass demijohn
Bottles (or second demijohn and bung)
Corks
Muslin cloth
Grater, liquidiser or mincer
Syphon tube (Wilkinsons)
Sterilizing powder for all equipment


How to do it:
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CAUTION:
All utensils must be sterilized before use. If you don't do this your wine will probably spoil and you won't be able to drink it.

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Grind the apples in a mincer or liquidiser, or grate them if you have neither of these.

Drop the fruit into 3 litres of water in which the Campden tablets have been disolved.

Add the Pectin and next day add the yeast.

Keep in a suitable container at a temperature of around 18C and squash the pulp at intervals to squeeze out the juice.

After 2 or 3 days squeeze out through muslin or a very fine seive and disolve the sugar into the juice.

(A muslin cloth gives much better results than a seive. You can buy a small piece of white muslin off the roll in a shop that sells fabric. This might be cheaper than buying a roll of it from a winemakers shop.)

Make the volume up to 5litres again with water. Fit an airlock and leave to ferment at a temperature of about 18C.

When fermentation stops put the jar in a cool place, (you will able to see when there is no more activity in the wine.)

When the wine is clear syphon it off into another demijohn (racking). Repeat if you need to.

When you are ready to bottle the wine (or syphon it for the last time into a fresh clean demijohn, add 1 Campden tablet per 5litres of wine. Keep the wine in a cool place.

It will be ready for d
rinking in about three months and will keep for up to a year.

Give this a try and you may suprise yourself. It could be the start of a satisfying hobby!

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