How To Make Damson Wine

Homemade Wine Recipe

Ingredients: Damson Wine

3 lb / 1,350 grams damsons
3 lb / 1,350 grams sugar
1 tablespoon pectin enzyme
Water up to 1 gallon
Yeast nutrient
Wine yeast

Method - What to Do

Place the damsons in a fermentation bucket and add the boiling water. Add the sugar and stir until completely dissolved. When cool add the pectin enzyme, yeast nutrient and wine yeast. Cover and leave to ferment for two 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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