apple wine recipe

[mugins]

To make 5 gallons of cheap Apple Wine, you will need a 5-gallon fermentation barrel, plus the basic wine making kit i have described before.
Then you need to go to a supermarket and buy these ingredients:
10 litres Pure White Grape Juice
6 litres of pure Clear Apple Juice
2 litres of Concentrated Apple Juice (50% Hi-juice will do)
5 kilos of Sugar
The total cost should be well under £20 for that lot (At my local it cost me £17.21)
That’s all! The rest will be in the starting kit you should already have. If you have all these things available it will literally take you about an hour in total to prepare this excellent wine, and then you just have to wait a month or two to enjoy the results.
Okay first of all you make sure tha the fermenting barrel is sterilised. We don’t want our lovely wine to be damaged by any stray bacteria do we?
Then you throw in the 10 litres of grape juice. (I know it is such a strain opening all those cartons, but i assure you it is worth it)
Next you fill the kettle to the top and set it to boil, and search for a container large enough to hold a kilo of sugar.
Put the sugar in the bowl or whatever, add boiling water, and stir it well until the sugar is mostly dissolved. Add it to the fermenting barrel, and carry on doing it until all five kilos of sugar are added.
That’s the hard bit over with, all that stirring can get to your wrists after a while. Your level in your five gallon container should be around the 15 litre mark by now, if not more.
Next you add the 2 litres of concentrated Apple Hi-Juice. Next you need to get a big wooden fork or spoon and give it a vigorous stir again, making sure all the undissolved sugar is taken off the bottom of the barrel.
Brilliant, now you just add a couple of teaspoons of Super Wine Yeast (or a large glass of ordinary wine yeast once it has started fermenting).
Seal the lid of the barrel with an airlock and leave it in a warmish place for a few days for it to really start bubbling away. After a week or so when it has slowed down a little, put in two teaspoons of yeast nutrient to give it a little burst of energy, and then top it up to the 5 gallon mark with the pure clear Apple Juice (and water if necessary, but i doubt it!)
That’s it! You can now safely ignore it until it is ready to be bottled. I would recommend at least six weeks, but you will know for sure when it has stopped bubbling completely for at least a week.
I prefer to leave it for three months to be sure of a quality wine, but you could always transfer to two-litre bottles and sample each one once a fortnight if you are really impatient.

[lisa4star]

Thank you for this recipe.

I will need to acquire some more wine yeast as I didn't buy a wine kit, just a small tub of Youngs fast fermentation, high alcohol yeast. No where near a cup full and I do not have a bucket to put it in.

I will invest in these as I'm planning to make lots after receiving 8 demijohns from freecycle.