Strawberry Wine Ingredients 4lbs/1815g strawberries 3lbs/1360g sugar 4 pints/2273ml boiling water 2 pints/1137ml cold water 1 Yeast sachet 1 teaspoon each of Yeast Nutrient, Pectolase and Tannin Method (First Stage) • Mash strawberries in bucket and add sugar • Pour over boiling water • Leave 24 hours • Strain liquid into demijohn using a sieve, putting strawberry pulp into large pan • Pour cold water over strawberry pulp, letting it sit for an hour or so • Pour strawberry liquid from demijohn back into bucket • Strain liquid in pan into bucket, discarding strawberry pulp • Add yeast, nutrient, pectolase and tannin • Leave 5 (or so) days, stirring twice a day • Pour liquid into demijohn • Fit rubber bung and air trap • leave for 2 months (or so) Method (second stage) • siphon liquid from demijohn into second demijohn, trying to avoid the sediment • fill gap in second demijohn with syrup made from a ratio of 1 pint water:6 oz sugar • leave for 4 months (or so) • bottle • leave until a year from collecting ingredients (if you can!) • drink A year from making to drinking sounds like an age, but don’t let this deter you. Start others in the meantime – I recommend blackberry – and soon you will have a wine cycle going where you are always starting a new flavour as you open a fresh wine. Both making and drinking are an absolute pleasure, and I urge you to have a go.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 03:40:00 +0000