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Wine Making - Gooseberry Wine Recipe

Recipe for 1 gallon of medium dry Gooseberry Wine. Try to use small, green gooseberries from early in the season. If you use later ones, it's best to increase the sugar and turn into a sweeter wine.

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Gooseberry Wine Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 3 lb gooseberries
  • Campden tablets
  • 2½ lb sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Pectolase
  • Wine yeast
  • Nutrient
  • Water

Method:

  1. Top and tail the gooseberries and rinse well.
  2. Put into a fermenting bin and crush well by hand.
  3. Pour on 4 pints of water. Add 1 Campden tablet, crushed and dissolved in a little warm water.
  4. Boil all of the sugar in 3 pints of water for 2 or 3 minutes and, when cool, mix into the pulp.
  5. Add the pectolase, yeast and nutrient and cover and allow to ferment for a week, stirring daily.
  6. Strain and press and return to a clean fermenting bin.
  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, adding a Campden tablet after the first racking.
  12. Syphon into bottles.

Makes 1 gallon of wine.

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