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Wine Making - Beetroot Wine Recipe

Recipe for 1 gallon of either a dry to medium Beetroot Wine. Use the lower amount of sugar for dry and the higher for medium.

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Beetroot Wine Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 4 lb beetroot
  • ½ lb sultanas or raisins
  • Juice of 2 large lemons
  • ½ pint strong tea 
  • 1¾ lb to 2¼ lb sugar
  • Wine yeast
  • Nutrient
  • Water

Method:

  1. Scrub the beetroots (but do not peel) and chop into small chunks
  2. Boil in 6 pints of water for about 15 minutes.
  3. Strain, discard the beets, and put the juice into a fermenting bin. Chop the sultanas or raisins and add to the bin along with half of the sugar.
  4. Allow to cool and then add the lemon juice, wine yeast, nutrient and tea.
  5. Cover and allow to ferment for a week, stirring daily.
  6. Strain and press and return to a clean fermenting bin.
  7. Boil the remaining sugar in 2 pints of water for 2 or 3 minutes and add to the bin.
  8. Cover again and leave for 3 or 4 days.
  9. Pour carefully into a gallon jar, leaving as much deposit behind as possible.
  10. Fill up the jar with cooled, boiled water to where the neck begins.
  11. Fit a fementation lock and leave until fermentation has finished.
  12. Rack, as necessary, and syphon into bottles.

Makes 1 gallon of wine.

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