Elderberry and Apple Wine
I started this the other night and since then it has been merrily bubbling away in the bucket. There are two gallons on the go (approximately 8 bottles) Ingredients for one gallon: 3lbs elderberries 4lb apples 1 gallon of water (8 pints) juice of 4 lemons Yeast Yeast Nutrient Pectolase 3lbs sugar String the elderberries and put them into large saucepan and crush them (I used a potato masher). Wash and chop the apple and then put in the pan with the elderberries. Bring them to the boil and boil for about 15 minutes then decant to large sterilised bucket. Cool the mixture to lukewarm then add the yeast, yeast nutrient and the pectolase. Cover the brew and leave it in a warm place to ferment for four or five days stirring every day. Strain the liquid onto a syrup made with the sugar and 1 pint of water. Add lemon juice. Pour into a 1 gallon jar (I have 2) and fit a fermentation lock filled with some sterilisin...