Red Goosberry Wine

[Will_D]

Just picked 1.5 kg of red gooseberrys. Also a few black currants, some early blackberrys and the last of the logan berrys.

Basic recipe is:

1.8 kilos of the above.
0.5 kgs sugar
3 litres of water

As best you can crush/pulp up the fruits in the water and then add sugar.

Add Pectic Enzyme, Yeast Nutrient and a wine yeast

Let ferment for 3 days or so. Repulp the fruit (now much easier as the alcohol/CO2 and the enzymes will have softened it considerably) and strain through mussline or a small pressw.

Boil up 1 kg of sugar in 1 litre of water. Cool and when cool add to the juice.

Finish as usual

The next recipe I post you will not believe - watch this space!!

Qn: What is the most unusual fruit/vegetable can you use to make delicious white wine?

[LordEoin]

beetroot?

[Col]

Pea pod and elderflower? Well, not delicious, but cheap and cheerful...