Red Currant Homemade Wine, method 1

2011 August 8

red-currant-homemade-wine2

    Ingredients:

  • 13 lbs of red currants
  • sugar (2 glasses for each 0,2 gallon of juice)

Wash and dry the berries, put them into enamelware dish and crush. Put berries (both pulp and juice) into a bottle, close it with an airlock that will keep oxygen out during fermentation. Keep in dark warm place until fermentation is other. Pour mash into a bowl and leave for 5-6 hours. Strain the liquid into another bowl, leaving the sediment, add sugar, and stir well until sugar is dissolved. Rack into bottle, cork and let rest for 7-8 weeks, then strain into another bottle, cork and let rest for another 3-4 months. Wine is ready.

No comments yet

Leave a Reply

Note: You can use basic XHTML in your comments. Your email address will never be published.

Subscribe to this comment feed via RSS

Google Analytics Alternative