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 much more wheat than this (apricot for example). Perhaps this is because without anything else of substance to add flavour, very little wheat is actually needed.
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 much more wheat than this (apricot for example). Perhaps this is because without anything else of substance to add flavour, very little wheat is actually needed.
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