Apple Wine
I've just started off some apple wine, using apples from the tree in our garden. It's currently bubling away happily in our dining room.
The recipe was modified slightly from the original, since we have a juicer. In all, I made almost a gallon of apple juice. I added 3.5kg of sugar to the juice, and topped it up to 3 gallons with filtered water.
This gave me a specific gravity of 1110, which is really too high for what I want. If it ferments fully it should give me a 17% wine, which risks being a bit sweet - I was hoping for a dry wine at about 14%.
Posted by john at September 5, 2006 11:21 PM