I found a cherry tree near our local Lidl last week and collected a couple of kilos of cherries from it. I went back yesterday to pick some more and discovered that right next to it was a massive wild plum tree that was absolutely covered in small, slightly overripe fruit. How I missed this last week I have no idea. I spent a good hour and picked nearly 8kg of plums
I made plum wine last year from Jack Keller's recipe using six punnets of reduced Co-op plums, it turned out pretty well. But I was thinking, if it was 8kg of apples I'd make cider, so I had a crazy idea... Plum Cider! However a touch of googling turned up virtually nothing, and I imagine there is a reason why. I believe that plums are very high in acid, would 100% plum juice be just too acidic?
I could just make two gallons of wine using last year's recipe, which wouldn't be a waste. I just thought that it would be interesting to try something different.
I made plum wine last year from Jack Keller's recipe using six punnets of reduced Co-op plums, it turned out pretty well. But I was thinking, if it was 8kg of apples I'd make cider, so I had a crazy idea... Plum Cider! However a touch of googling turned up virtually nothing, and I imagine there is a reason why. I believe that plums are very high in acid, would 100% plum juice be just too acidic?
I could just make two gallons of wine using last year's recipe, which wouldn't be a waste. I just thought that it would be interesting to try something different.
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