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Carrot Wine (sweet)
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Ingredients |
Metric |
British |
USA |
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Carrots |
2.75 kg |
6LB |
5LB |
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Wheat |
500 g |
1LB |
3/4LB |
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Brewing sugar |
1.75 kg |
4LB |
3LB |
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Lemon |
2 |
2 |
2 |
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Oranges |
2 |
2 |
2 |
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Wine concentrate |
100 mils |
4 ounce |
4 ounce |
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Water |
4.5 L |
1 gallon |
1 gallon |
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Wine yeast |
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Yeast nutrient |
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A readily available and very popular drink with both kick and flavour.
- Wash the carrots well, but do not peel
- Put into the water and bring to a boil, then simmer gently until the carrots are very tender.
- Use the carrots for food, saving the water and make up to 1 gallon
- Put the sugar sliced oranges, and lemons into a fermentation bucket
- Pour over the hot liquid from the carrots until the sugar is dissolved
- Allow to cool, then add the wine concentrate and wheat and sprinkle the wine yeast on top
- Leave to ferment, closely covered, for 15 days, stirring daily
- Then skim, stain and put into a fermentation jar (Demi John fit an airlock and leave until it is clear and stable
- Bottle and keep for almost a year from the start of fermentation before drinking.
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