Re: pumpkin wine
My husband made raspberry wine before and it came out ok, he found that most
fruit wine makers start with a grape base and then add raspberry flavoring and
the end of the process because the berries don't have the right sugar and yeast
the the grapes have for making wine.
Gail in NH
Bill H wrote:
> Thanks for the recipe. Do you make other wines? I just had my raspberry wine
> finish, fermenting, this was the first time I made it, and guess what I
> ended up with. Raspberry vinegar, do you know what I did wrong? Thanks Again
> Bill H
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vossen <cneevoss@tcc.on.ca>
> To: pumpkins <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 9:09 PM
> Subject: pumpkin wine
>
> > Unfortunately I don't have this old guys formula. there are two sound
> > ones in a book by Gail Demerow called the perfect pumpkin. The old guy I
> > was talking about brewed in his pumpkin. one bunch of grapes in a small
> > pumpkin 2 or three in a bigger one lots of brown sugar and yeast' but I
> > don't know quantities he brewed right in the pumpkin. try this
> > 15 -25 LB pumpkin grated
> > 4 1/2 gallons water
> > sugar or honey or brown
> sugar
> > and if your Canadian you might want to make 1 pound of your sweetener
> maple
> > syrup (for dry 7 LB for medium 10 LB for sweet 12 LB) juice of 3
> > lemons.
> > 1 packet wine yeast
> > boil grated pumpkin 15 or 20 min cool and strain through layers cheese
> > cloth add sweetener add lemon juice stir
> >
> >
> > cool to 70 deg F add wine yeast
> > after fermentation stops siphon of into a carboy set a side to
> clear
> > about three months racking of again may reduce sediment faster
> > siphon into sterilized wine bottles taking care not
> > to disturb the sediment at this stage I use a pump and filter I rent
> > from my local home brewing store. this reduces the waiting time to let it
> > settle. cork bottles store for 8 months in cool dark place. It will
> improve
> > with age if kept cool something I also
> > do is add a raison to each bottle at bottling. this gathers the sediment
> > left in the bottles and sweetens the wine slightly. this is not in the
> > recipe I tripled it and on he third batch in the vat put half pumpkin
> > half grapes.
> >
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