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