Easy Strawberry Wine
Add a little kick to your strawberry season! This homemade strawberry wine recipe comes together in minutes and is ready to enjoy in just a few months.
Ingredients
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- 3 pounds fresh strawberries
- 2 pounds granulated cane sugar
- 2 teaspoons citric acid or wine acid blend
- 5 pints clean water (non-chlorinated)
- 1 teaspoon yeast nutrient
- 1 package of wine yeast
Instructions
- For a single batch, place strawberries, sugar and citric acid in a 2 gallon crock. (The berry mix will bubble in the early stages of fermentation and may rise out of a one gallon crock.)
- Crush fruit with a potato masher or pastry blender. Cover berry/sugar mix with 5 pints boiling water.
- Stir wine must with wooden spoon to dissolve sugar and simultaneously mash the strawberries.
- When cooled to 85°F (29°C), add yeast and yeast nutrient. Cover and stir daily for seven days.
- One the 7th day, strain through cheesecloth or a flour sack towel. Transfer to secondary fermentation vessel with airlock.
- Add sterilized water to top up to one gallon of liquid and seal with a fermentation cap. (A fermentation cap is an airlock that allows carbon dioxide to escape but keeps oxygen out.)
- Store out of direct sunlight for 30 days. Rack into a clean fermentation vessel. Store for 30 days more, rack again. Allow to settle 3-5 days and bottle when clear.
- Age for at least 6 months. Flavor improves up to a year.
Notes
The option to double or triple the recipe will automatically double or triple the amount of yeast. This in not required. One package of yeast is enough to make up to five gallons of wine.
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