How To Make Crab Apple Wine

Homemade Wine Recipe

Ingredients: Crab Apple Wine

1 gallon of crab apples
3 1/2 lb / 1,600 grams sugar
1 lb / 450 grams raisins
Water up to 1 gallon
Yeast nutrient
Wine yeast

Method - What to Do

Chop or crush the apples into a fermentation bucket and add the boiling water. Stir and mash and cover and leave for ten days. Strain and add the chopped raisins and sugar. Stir vigorously until the sugar has dissolved. Add the yeast nutrient and wine yeast and leave for another ten days, stirring daily. Strain into a demijohn and fit an airlock to seal the jar.

Store in a warm place and allow the fermentation to work. When fermentation has ceased, rack the wine into a clean jar and place in a cooler environment and leave. When the wine is clear and stable siphon into bottles.

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