Remembered Recipe - 'Instant Wine'

INSTANT WINE

Ingredients:

1 bottle (950ml) Tropicana golden grapefruit juice
1 jar (370g) malt extract
700g white sugar
Yeast and nutrient (yeast used was a mixture of Alcotec turbo yeast distiller's strain for fruit and Bulldog mead yeast)

Method:

Dissolve the sugar and malt extract in warm water. Add everything to a demijohn (passing the fruit juice through a muslin). Top up to 1 gallon with cold water. Fit airlock.
Rack once fermentation has ceased. Bottle when clear.

Source:

Taken from CJJ Berry's book but with some quantities and ingredients changed for ease.

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Remembered Recipe - Wheat and Raisin Wine

WHEAT AND RAISIN WINE Ingredients: 1 pint of wheat bran 1kg raisins (used Sainsbury's basics sultanas) 1.5kg demerara sugar 2 lemons Yeast & nutrient (yeast used was a mixture of Alcotec turbo yeast distiller's strain for fruit and Bulldog mead yeast) Method: Soak the wheat in a pint of water overnight. Put wheat and raisins through a food processor. Dissolve sugar in warm water then add everything to the fermenting bin (Note: It would probably have made things much easier if at this point the wheat and raisins had been placed inside a straining bag). Top up with cold water to 1 gallon. Leave in primary for 7-10 days then transfer into a demijohn, passing the liquid through a muslin to remove any solids. Rack once fermentation has ceased, bottle once clear. Sources: CJJ Berry - 'First Steps in Winemaking', Wheat wine Notes: I have absolutely no idea why this is called a wheat wine when many of CJJ's other fruit based recipes use muc...

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