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Hello and welcome to the monthly series from your Home Wine and Beer Maker--Graham

JULY

The month of July - favoured by good weather, light evenings and good company.

A customer recently reminded me of a favourite wine I made some years ago, so with them in mind I will reprint it.

ROSE- ROSÉ PETAL WINE

During June and July the garden rose gives us a beautiful display, but then her petals drop leaving us with a lost reminder of beauty. What better thing to remember her by but to make a Rosé of the petals.

Ingredients

  • 1lt/6pt loosely packed rose petals

  • 1kg/2½lb Tate and Lyle granulated sugar

  • 1 small tin white wine concentrate

  • 1tsp yeast nutrient

  • 1½tsp tartaric acid

  • ¼tsp wine tannin

  • 1pkt Youngs general purpose white wine yeast

  • 1 Campden Tablet

  • 1tsp fermentation stopper

Method

  1. Dissolve the sugar in 500ml of warm water and, once clear, allow to cool.

  2. Sprinkle the packet of yeast in ½ cup of lukewarm water, cover, and leave alone for 10 minutes

  3. Pour the sugar water into a 10lt/2gal bucket and add the yeast, small tin of concentrate, 1tsp yeast nutrient and ¼tsp wine tannin.

  4. Leave the mixture loosely covered for 2 days.

  5. Now add the well rinsed rose petals and stir very gently, cover again loosely and leave for 3 days.

  6. Strain out the petals and pour the liquid into a Demi-john. Top up to the shoulder with slightly warm water. Fit a bung and bubbler (airlock).

  7. Leave in a warm place, inside the house, for 2 weeks.

  8. At the end of this time, taste and if to your taste (dry or sweet) stop the wine with the crushed Campden Tablet and the fermentation stopper.

  9. Now bottle up, good quality corks, tasty labels, sleeving on the corks and chill well.

Serve to your friends and loved ones in August. the roses will last in your taste buds for several hours.

Finally for this pleasant month with the PYO signs appearing on the Island

SWEET STRAWBERRY WINE

Ingredients

  • 3lb/1.5kg Strawberries
  • 2lb/1kg Tate and Lyle granulated sugar
  • 1tsp yeast nutrient
  • 1tsp pectic enzyme (Pectolase)
  • 1pkt Youngs Burgundy yeast
  • 2 Campden tablets

Method

    1. Prepare the yeast as per packet instructions and leave, covered for 20 minutes.
    2. Dissolve the sugar in 1½ pints of boiling water. Stir until the water becomes clear again then leave to cool.
    3. Rinse the strawberries in a solution of 1 Campden tablet in water then crush them in a 2 or 3 gallon (10 or 15 litre) clean, sterilized bucket. Add the cooled sugar solution and a further 4 pints of cold water. Stir well and add the pectic enzyme, yeast nutrient and yeast culture.
    4. Loosely cover the bucket with a clean tea towel and stir daily for 5 days. Strain the liquid through a muslin bag into a sterilized Demi-john. Fit an airlock and keep in a warm place (not an airing cupboard, just a room in the house) for 10 days and then top up the Demi-john to the shoulder with tepid water.
    5. Leave alone for the fermentation to finish and the wine to clear. You can speed up this process with “Vin Clear” or, like me; you just move it somewhere cool-i.e. A concrete garage floor.
    6. When the wine is sufficiently clear taste it. It will taste sweet but this is strawberry wine and should be sweet.
    7. Rack off into a second sterilized Demi-john, leaving behind any yeast or particles.
    8. After a further 2 days, inspect the wine and bottle. Good quality corks and stylish labels will improve the presentation (and taste!) It can be drunk immediately for that summer taste or left to mature for a couple of months.

Whilst I always give a wine recipe each month you can produce some spectacular beers’ in a matter of 3 weeks. They work out about 25p per pint and taste magnificent. Just give some beer a try.

If you would like to suggest a personal wine recipe that we could try, please e-mail me. I would love to know what anyone thinks of my monthly attempts

Cheers

Graham

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