25
Sep
It may only take one week. So how to make delicious sweet apple wine.
1 2 pint of white grape concentrate or 1 pound of raisins.
Easy homemade apple wine recipes. 4kg apples peeled and cut up into small chunks cubes just prior to making wine to avoid the apples going brown 4 5 litres water 900g sugar 1 2 1 tsp acid blend if you are using tart apples use less acid. So how to make delicious sweet apple wine. It all starts with this.
Heat up the water in a large stainless steel pot and add 2 pounds of granulated white sugar. Bring to the boil and simmer for approximately 10 15 minutes. To stabilize the apple wine at before bottling or back sweetening add both one crushed campden tablet and 1 2 teaspoon potassium sorbate per gallon.
Once stabilized add sugar to taste. Make a simple syrup by dissolving equal parts sugar and water together in a saucepan and then add that to the wine before bottling. Put the wine in a room temperature or above place and wait 2 3 weeks.
After a day the balloon should be standing up and small bubbles will be rising to the top of the wine. After two or three weeks the balloon should be limp again and there will be no bubble rising. It may only take one week.
To make apple wine start by gathering 9 pounds of ripe apples like mcintosh golden and red delicious. Run your apples under cold water until they re clean then pat them dry. Use a large sharp knife to core and cube the apples but leave the skin intact for the fermenting process.
After a few days the apple juice will have seeped out into the water. Strain out the apples and you re left with the apple liquor. Add the sugar raisins make sure you ve chopped them lemon juice and tea.
Apple wine recipe 2 crabapple wine 4 1 2 pounds of chopped crabapples. 1 2 pint of white grape concentrate or 1 pound of raisins. 7 pints of water.
1 3 4 pounds of sugar. 1 2 tsp pectic enzyme. 1 tab campden crush.
1 pkg wine yeast. 1 tsp anti oxidant this is added before bottling. Starting specific gravity s g 1 090 95.
Wash and cut up the apples skins brown patches and all. Put in large bucket and cover with water. Add the pectolase enzyme if you re using it and stir well.
Make sure you keep the apples pressed down under the water with plate and weight. Here is leslie s apple wine recipe. To each gallon apple juice add three cups boiled then cooled sugar syrup dissolve 3 cups sugar in 1 5 cups boiling water one teaspoon acid blend one teaspoon pectic enzyme and one crushed campden tablet or equivalent.
In theory making wine is very simple. Yeast meets grape juice in an environment that allows fermentation. Just nature being nature.
No doubt wine was first discovered by happy accident thousands of years ago. Natural yeasts blowing in the wind settled down upon a bunch of squashed grapes whose juice was pooling in the shaded bowl of a rock. Soon after some lucky passerby stops and stoops.