Ingredients: 20g hops (hops used were 2015 Target hops) 1 litre apple juice (with no preservatives) (juice used was Euro Shopper apple juice from concerntrate) 20g ginger, skin removed and roughly cut 1 orange 1 lemon 250g demerara sugar 1kg white sugar Yeast and nutrient Method: Pour apple juice into a pot and add water to make up to a gallon of liquid. (I used hot water that had been used to clean out leftover golden syrup tins from the cheshire homebrew). Add ginger and hops to the liquid and boil together for an hour. After an hour add sugar and stir till it has dissolved. Put juice from the orange and lemon into a sterelised demijohn then siphon the mixture on top, filtering out all the solids. Once mixture has cooled add yeast and nutrient, fit airlock and leave. Rack once fermentation in complete. CJJ Berry reccommends adding 1/4lb chopped raisins and 1/2lb of loaf sugar once fermentation has ceased. Then bung tightly with a sealed stopper and leave for a further
APPLE AND BLUEBERRY WINE Ingredients: (makes 2 gallons) ~7kg mixed apples (aimed for 80% cooking, 20% sweet) 400-500g blueberries (used 2 punnets from Sainsbury's) 2kg white sugar Pectoclase Campden tablets Yeast & nutrient (yeast used was Gervin GV5 - white fruit wine) Method: Put 4 litres of water into a fermenting bin, add 2 crushed campden tablets and 2 teaspoons of pectoclase. Wash apples, core them, roughly cut up, put straight into water (inside a straining bag). Add blueberries to straining bag, press gently. Dissolve sugar in warm water and add to mixture. Top up with cold water to make 1 gallon. Add yeast and nutrient. Ferment for three days, stirring daily, then ring out all the pulp as dry as possible, crushing the fruit to extract liquid. Siphon into demijohns through a muslin. There will be a large amount of solids collecting in the muslin. Fit airlock. Once fermentation has slowed, a large amount of solids will have already collected, rack and