Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Homebrew => Topic started by: Redwellies on May 16, 2007, 17:43
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For elderflower wine, one is in flower down at the allotment, so if anyone has a nice simple recipe I would be grateful
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INGREDIENTS
30 elderflower sprays
2 lemons, sliced
2oz citric acid
4lb sugar
2ΒΌ pint of water
Saucepan
Funnel
Bottle with cork
METHOD
Use open elderflower heads picked from a tree well away from the road so that the flowers are free from dust and pollution. Pick over the elderflowers and set them aside.
Put all the ingredients in a pan, cover with the cloth and stand for a fortnight, stirring every day.
Pour the sweetened liquid into a clean bottle until it is filled to the top.
Keep any surplus in a bottle for topping up the water receptacle during fermentation.
Stand the bottle on a tray in a warm room. Fermentation soon begins and froth will pour out over the side of the bottle. Fill up again from the surplus bottle until a froth no longer forms.
Insert a cork into the bottler, loosely at first, but when the fermentation is over and no bubbles of gas are seen, then cork tightly.
If you want a really clear wine it should be racked from time to time, i.e. pour the clear wine from the old bottles, into clean ones, keeping the yeast deposit to re-clear in the old bottles.
The wine should be kept for six months without sampling.
found this for you on the net if this helps.
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Thanks for receipe will give it a try
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your welcome :wink: :D
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Hi, if the amount of flowers is not clear you need a pint glass full per gallon, but not pressed down just knocked to settle.
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Make sure you pick elderflowers that smell nice! There are a lot of different sorts, and some are much nicer than others.