Well this morning a disaster happened..
The Elderberry wine exploded. I have red wine all over the place..
The Airlock became blocked and then boom.
The room is covered in red wine.
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Elderberry Wine
Elderberry Wine
Taken from http://www.brewstore.co.uk/dried-elderberries-1354-p.asp
Here is the recipe:
500g - Dried Elderberries
240g - Grape Concentrate (Red)
2 - Bananas
1kg - Sugar
3.4 ltr - Water
1 tsp - Citric Acid
1 - Campden Tablet
1 Sachet - Yeast Nutrient
1 Sachet - Yeast (Burgundy)
1 tsp - Potassium Sorbate
Finings - As per instructions
Method
1) Skin and slice the bananas and simmer in 2 pints of water for 15 minutes (Do Not Boil).
2) Dissolve Sugar in 3 pints of boiling water. Place dried Elderberries in a pail and scald with sugar syrup and banana liquor. Leave till cool (20°C. 60°F.)
3) Add yeast, yeast nutrient, and citric acid and top up to six pints with water. Cover and ferment the pulp for seven days, stirring daily.
4) Strain must into clean demijohn. Add grape concentrate and top up to 1 gallon with cold water. fit air lock and ferment out to required sweetness (dry 995 – sweet 1015 on your hydrometer)
5) Add 1 Campden tablet and Potassium Sorbate (to stop fermentation).
6) One week later, rack into a clean demijohn, add finings and rack again when clear. The wine is now clear for bottling.
Taken from http://www.brewstore.co.uk/dried-elderberries-1354-p.asp
Here is the recipe:
500g - Dried Elderberries
240g - Grape Concentrate (Red)
2 - Bananas
1kg - Sugar
3.4 ltr - Water
1 tsp - Citric Acid
1 - Campden Tablet
1 Sachet - Yeast Nutrient
1 Sachet - Yeast (Burgundy)
1 tsp - Potassium Sorbate
Finings - As per instructions
Method
1) Skin and slice the bananas and simmer in 2 pints of water for 15 minutes (Do Not Boil).
2) Dissolve Sugar in 3 pints of boiling water. Place dried Elderberries in a pail and scald with sugar syrup and banana liquor. Leave till cool (20°C. 60°F.)
3) Add yeast, yeast nutrient, and citric acid and top up to six pints with water. Cover and ferment the pulp for seven days, stirring daily.
4) Strain must into clean demijohn. Add grape concentrate and top up to 1 gallon with cold water. fit air lock and ferment out to required sweetness (dry 995 – sweet 1015 on your hydrometer)
5) Add 1 Campden tablet and Potassium Sorbate (to stop fermentation).
6) One week later, rack into a clean demijohn, add finings and rack again when clear. The wine is now clear for bottling.
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Sloe Gin - Asked for by Leeky
Sloe Gin.
These berries are available around October/November.
This is easy and if I am lead to believe very tasty.
Sloe's - Fresh if you can get.
Sugar
Cheap Super Market Gin.
Measure your Sloe's, about 250g - 500g depending how you like it.
Measure sugar to half of the amount of Sloeberries. i.e. 500g sloe's and 250g sugar.
1 ltr of Gin.
Clean a glass demijohn, prick all your berries with a cocktail stick or sterile pin.
Add to demijohn with sugar and Gin.
Seal and sake.
Once a day shake for a month. Then shake once a month for two months.
You can use Dried Elderberries.
Clean the berries until water is clear.
Put berries in hot water overnight.
Clean berries again and then prick them.
Then carry on as usual.
These berries are available around October/November.
This is easy and if I am lead to believe very tasty.
Sloe's - Fresh if you can get.
Sugar
Cheap Super Market Gin.
Measure your Sloe's, about 250g - 500g depending how you like it.
Measure sugar to half of the amount of Sloeberries. i.e. 500g sloe's and 250g sugar.
1 ltr of Gin.
Clean a glass demijohn, prick all your berries with a cocktail stick or sterile pin.
Add to demijohn with sugar and Gin.
Seal and sake.
Once a day shake for a month. Then shake once a month for two months.
You can use Dried Elderberries.
Clean the berries until water is clear.
Put berries in hot water overnight.
Clean berries again and then prick them.
Then carry on as usual.
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