Apple juice is naturally sweet so you could simply add only the yeast if you want a drier. Instructions yeast feeds on sugar and emits alcohol in a process called fermentation.
Some winemakers are of the opinion that a blend of several apple varieties is best for the sake of balance.
How to make apple wine.
This video contains commentary as i prepare the apples for the wine.
12 1 tsp acid blend if you are using tart apples use less acid.
This shouldnt be to hard.
Apple wine ingredients 4kg apples peeled and cut up into small chunkscubes just prior to making wine to avoid the apples going brown.
Add the apples and boiling water to your fermenter.
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14 tsp wine.
Put into primary fermentation vessel add the water and crushed and dissolved campden tablet and cover the mixture with sanitized muslin or towel.
Boil water and add sugar chop up your apples place them in the nylon straining bag put the straining bag with apples at the bottom of your plastic bin pour sugary boiling water over it top it up with warm water add yeast nutrient citric acid wine tannin and.
Pour 225 litres 059 us gal of cold water into the fermenter.
Chop the apples into small pieces avoiding the core so as not to cut any seeds.
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This is my way of making apple wine its a fairly easy recipe and the end results is a beautiful wine.
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Allow the mixture to ferment for 4 to 5 days or until the hydrometer measures between 1030 to 1040.
This additional sugar will require a few more days of fermentation and because of the higher alcohol level a few more months for the apple wine to mature to give it adequate drinkability.
1 tsp yeast nutrient.
Place the hydrometer on the lip of the container and cover again with a towel.
Or add only the yeast then drink the wine after a few days while the yeast is still working.
Stir in the tannin yeast nutrient and acid blend to the.
Making apple wine would require adding additional sugar to the apple juice to bring the alcohol content up to a minimum of about 10 but more likely in the 12 to 14 level.
How to make apple wine fermenting the wine boil 225 litres 059 us gal of water and 900 grams 20 lb of sugar.
After this time carefully siphon the apple wine mixture into your secondary fermenting container.
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Add the package of ec 1118 yeast after 24 hours.
The water will not cover the apples so stir every two hours to bring bottom apples to the top.
The type of apples you use to make apple wine is not to critical.
12 tsp pectic enzyme.
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