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Wine Making - Blackberry Wine Recipe
A dry wine, similar to a "Beaujolais" wine, easy to make from free hedgerow ingredients.
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Blackberry Wine Recipe
Ingredients:
- 2½ lb blackberries
- ½ lb sultanas
- Campden tablets
- 2 lb sugar
- Wine yeast
- Nutrient
- Water
Method:
- Strip and rinse the blackberries..
- Put into a fermenting bin and crush. Chop the sultanas and add to the bin.
- Pour on 4 pints of water. Add 1 Campden tablet, crushed and dissolved in a little warm water.
- Boil all of the sugar in 3 pints of water for 2 or 3 minutes and, when cool, mix into the pulp.
- Add the yeast and nutrient and cover and allow to ferment for a week, stirring daily.
- Strain and press and return to a clean fermenting 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, adding a Campden tablet after the first racking.
- Syphon into bottles.
Makes 1 gallon of wine.
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