Apple Wine

So, the big plum wine plan didn’t quite work out the way we hoped today. Biggest problem was the lack of plums…

I guess it was a rough year for the folks at Wasem Fruit Farm. An early thaw followed by frost didn’t do great things for either the apple or the plum crops. My Wife headed over this morning and discovered that they had harvested only a single bushel of plums from the whole orchard. So no plum wine for us today…

Instead we did apple. Making apple wine from cider is incredibly freekin’ easy. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in a low-difficulty, good tasting starter wine. We’re experimenting a bit with this batch. Instead of using ordinary sugar, we’re trying brown sugar to see what that does to the flavor.

I’ve posted the basic apple wine recipie before… It hasn’t changed much, apart from the fact that we’re doing a 6 gallon carboy instead of 5 this time (increase stuff proportionally). Sadly, I haven’t yet convinced my Wife that we really really need the 26 gallon fermenter

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