Strawberry and Apple Wine

Ingredients -

• 3lbs ripe Strawberries
• 1 litre carton of pure clear apple juice
• Yeast
• 2½ lbs. of white sugar (plus ½ lb top up)
• 1 Lemon - juice and zest
• 1 teaspoon Pectolic enzyme
• 1 Camden tablet
• Water

  Method -

• Wash and hull the strawberries.
• Put into fermenting bin with the zest and juice of the lemon, and the carton of apple juice and pour over 5 pints of boiling water.
• Mash the strawberries with a spoon or a potato masher.
• Dissolve the sugar in 1 pint of boiling water and add to rest.
• Cover the fermenting bin and leave to cool to lukewarm.
• Add one crushed Camden tablet and the Pectolic enzyme.
• Leave covered for 24 hours.
• Activate yeast and add to must.
• Keep covered and in a warm place for a week, stirring daily.
• Strain into a demijohn, topping up with water if necessary and fit fermentation lock.
• It fermentation lags or it is becoming too dry you can feed the wine with small amounts of sugar solution but beware over sweetening.
• Finish as usual.

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