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  • Gorse Flower Wine

    Ok, this is the gorse wine I made last year.

    I had;

    5 litres of Gorse flowers
    5 litres Tesco White Grape juice
    2 bags Sugar (2kg)
    1 small tin of White Concentrate
    Plus other usual stuff

    I put the flowers in the primary with the rind of 4 oranges.

    I boiled 7 pints of water with 1.3 kg (3.3lbs) of sugar and the tin of concentrate, and poured over.

    I also heated 2 litres of grape juice and dissolved the 0.5kg of sugar and poured over.

    I then added grape tannin, citric acid juice of the oranges and nutrient.

    When it had cooled I measure the gravity, which was 1100 at 30C, so clearly too high.

    I then added 2 litres of grape juice and 3 pints of water, which when cooler gave a gravity of 1092 ~ 12.5% alc.

    I then added a general white wine yeast and by the morning it was going well.

    I ended up with 3 gallons of wine - which tasted really nice (chilled).

    Kieron.
    Last edited by kmoorman; 28-04-2008, 02:56 PM.
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