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Red table wine
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Ingredients |
Metric |
British |
USA |
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Elderberries |
4.5 kilo |
10 lb |
8 lb |
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Red wine concentrate |
2.5 L |
5 pints |
5 pints |
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Brewing Sugar |
2 kilo |
4 lb |
3 lb |
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Water |
18 litres |
4 1/2 gallons |
4 1/2 gallons |
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Beaujolais Yeast |
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Yeast nutrient |
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- Crush the elderberries and strain off the juice.
- Leach the pulp by adding 1 gallon of boiling water, stirring for five minutes and then straining off the liquid.
- Press lightly.
- Repeat this treatment with a similar quantity of boiling water.
- Add the wine concentrate and nutrients to this elderberry extract,
- Add another 7 L of water
- When cool, add the yeast starter and ferment for four days
- Add the sugar and stir until completely dissolved.
- Make up the volume to 18 L with water.
- Then continue as usual with fermenting, racking and bottling.
