The apple tree in my garden is producing apples like there's no tomorrow! I am a huge fan of anything apple based, but there's only so much apple crumble one person can eat!
Last year the tree was producing loads too. In the past year I have recently got into wine making. With last years apples I made Apple & Blackberry wine:
Et Voilà!
Last year the tree was producing loads too. In the past year I have recently got into wine making. With last years apples I made Apple & Blackberry wine:
It's a dead easy recipe if you're into wine making (which you should, because it turns out to be much cheaper than buying wine from the supermarket, especially if you're a regular wine drinker).
Equipment:
- Fermentation Bucket (With Lid)
- Demijohn with Cork & Airlock.
- Bottles
Ingredients:
- 8lbs Apples
- 4 1/2 Pints of Water
- 2lbs Sugar
- 1 Campden Tablet, Crushed
- 1 Sachet of Wine Yeast
(You can buy the Campden Tablets & Wine Yeast from Vintners Harvest. Wine making equipment you can get from The Home Brew Shop)
1. Wash and sort your apples. Use only solid firm fruit. Cut
your apples into smaller pieces & put in the fermentation bucket.
2. Add your crushed Campden Tablet (this will help with the clearing of your wine). Boil the water, then add this, stirring in the sugar one scoop at a time.
3. Add your yeast and cover your fermenter. Stir your wine every day for about a week.
4. Strain the liquid through some tights, leaving any apple chunks behind (but make sure you squeeze all the liquid out of the apples before you chuck them away).
2. Add your crushed Campden Tablet (this will help with the clearing of your wine). Boil the water, then add this, stirring in the sugar one scoop at a time.
3. Add your yeast and cover your fermenter. Stir your wine every day for about a week.
4. Strain the liquid through some tights, leaving any apple chunks behind (but make sure you squeeze all the liquid out of the apples before you chuck them away).
5. Now siphon your wine into the demijohn, fitting the cork
& airlock (don't forget to fill the airlock half way with water before
fitting).
6. Leave your demijohn in a relatively warm place (mine is
in front of the boiler tank) for about a month, or until the airlock stops
bubbling.
7. Sediment will have settled on the bottom of the
container. We don't want this in our wine, use a cut off bit of hose to siphon
your wine off the sediment into a clean demijohn, & reattach an airlock.
8. Wait about 2 months and then siphon your wine off the
sediment again. Keep doing this until your wine is clear. If it is clear now
then it is time to bottle.
9. Let wine set for a couple of months before drinking.
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