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Wine Making - Elderberry Wine Recipe

Recipe for Elderberry Wine. Use the lower amount of sugar for a medium dry wine and the higher sugar for a medium sweet.

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Elderberry Wine Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 2½ lb elderberries
  • Campden tablets
  • 2¾ or 3 lb sugar
  • Wine yeast
  • Nutrient
  • Water

Method:

  1. Strip the elderberries from the stalks and wash well.
  2. Put into a fermenting bin and crush. Pour on 4 pints of water. Add 1 campden tablet, crushed and dissolved in a little warm water.
  3. Boil half of the sugar in 2 pints of water for 2 or 3 minutes and, when cool, mix into the pulp.
  4. Add the yeast and nutrient and cover and allow to ferment for 5 days, stirring daily.
  5. Strain and press and return to a clean fermenting bin.
  6. Boil the rest of the sugar in 1 pint of water for 2 or 3 minutes and, when cool, add to the rest.
  7. Cover again and leave for 3 or 4 days.
  8. Pour carefully into a gallon jar, leaving as much deposit behind as possible.
  9. Fill up the jar with cooled, boiled water to where the neck begins.
  10. Fit a fementation lock and leave until fermentation has finished.
  11. Rack, as necessary, and add 1 Campden tablet after the first racking.
  12. Syphon into bottles.

Makes 1 gallon of wine.

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Recipe for Elderberry Wine. Use the lower amount of sugar for a medium dry wine and the higher sugar for a medium sweet.

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