Homebrew Cherry Wine

HeadlessChicken · 18 Jun 2011 at 15:13

I helped my step dad harvest the cherries from his tree today (>20kg from a single tree in a courtyard garden :eek:

). There were a bunch which were perfectly good, but had split, so I brought them back with me to make cherry wine, as they will be split straight away anyway

Ingredients:

3.5kg cherries
Pectolase
Lemon
Citric acid
Tannin
1.2kg sugar
Yeast

So, first job is to clean and de-stalk the cherries, and they look like this:

Just boiled 3.6l water to steep them in, when cold I'll crush them all with a spoon. Will keep updated as I continue

Glaucus · 18 Jun 2011 at 15:18

Oh man, that sound amazing.

J1234 · 18 Jun 2011 at 15:32

Yum, this sounds good!

HeadlessChicken · 18 Jun 2011 at 17:31

Ok, mash done (ended up using y hands as the spoon method was going to take an age

). Also added 2 tsp of pectolase, to try and get a clearish end product.

It already has a good red colour and smells fantastic! This will steep for 2 days now, with a few stirs each day. I'll update this in a few days!

PapaLazaru · 19 Jun 2011 at 17:03

This should turn out awesome!

Sampsy · 19 Jun 2011 at 17:10

OOh, i'd love to taste the result

Captain Chaos · 19 Jun 2011 at 18:50

Send a bottle my way ;-)

Id drink anything mind ya lol

Craig1981 · 20 Jun 2011 at 01:11

Cant wait to see the finished product!

A.N.Other · 20 Jun 2011 at 12:03

I ******* adore cherries, so will watch with interest

soullessfire · 21 Jun 2011 at 20:33

For about a second when I scrolled I wondered why you had a picture of baked beans up lol

Interested to see how this turns out TBH, I really like cherries myself.

alexakasloth · 22 Jun 2011 at 10:19

Looking forward to seeing the end product, keep us updated!