Makes one gallon.

Ingredients:

Keep your acid tester and hydrometer handy. As with all wild fruit the sugar and acid content varies greatly from year to year and even from one location to another. The recipe above is a general recipe to use which you may have to adjust.

Directions:

Note: Only juice with no preservatives should be used.

1. Pour juice into primary fermenter.
2. Add water and all remaining ingredients, except yeast and anti-oxidant. Stir well.
3. Cover primary fermenter.
4. Wait 24 hours, then add yeast and re-cover primary fermenter.
5. Stir daily, check S.G. and press pulp lightly to aid extraction.
6. When S.G. reaches 1.040 (usually 3-5 days), strain juice from bag. Then syphon juice into glass container and attach airlock.
7. When S.G. reaches 1.000 (usually about 3 weeks), fermentation is complete. Syphon juice off sediment into clean glass container. Re-attach airlock.
8. To aid in clearing, syphon again in 2 months and again, if necessary, before bottling.
9. Allow the wine to age.
10. Before bottling, add 1 tsp. Anti-Oxidant and 1/4 cup dissolved sugar per gallon.
11. Bottle in champagne bottles, returnable pop bottles or beer bottles.
12. Apply crown caps.
13. Age for 3 months after bottling.