Ingredients:
225g Dried Elderberries
4 tins 300g Blackcurrants
245g Red Grape Juice Concentrate
2 Bananas
1½lb Sugar
½ tsp Tannin
1 tsp Tartaric Acid
Gervin yeast
Yeast nutrient
Pectolase
Method
Sterilize all equipment.
Put blackcurrants in bin, wash and add elderberries, then crush fruit.
Dissolve sugar in 2pts of boiling water, and add to bin.
Simmer bananas with acid in 2 pts of water for 30 mins in covered pan.
Allow to cool then strain liquor into bin.
Add 2 pts of cold water, stir well, cover and allow to cool.
Stir in the concentrate, tannin, pectolase, and 1 crushed campden tablet.
Cover and leave for 24 hrs.
Add yeast and nutrient.
Ferment on pulp for 3 days, stirring twice daily.
Strain into demijohn.
Ferment out.
Rack, fine and filter as normal
225g Dried Elderberries
4 tins 300g Blackcurrants
245g Red Grape Juice Concentrate
2 Bananas
1½lb Sugar
½ tsp Tannin
1 tsp Tartaric Acid
Gervin yeast
Yeast nutrient
Pectolase
Method
Sterilize all equipment.
Put blackcurrants in bin, wash and add elderberries, then crush fruit.
Dissolve sugar in 2pts of boiling water, and add to bin.
Simmer bananas with acid in 2 pts of water for 30 mins in covered pan.
Allow to cool then strain liquor into bin.
Add 2 pts of cold water, stir well, cover and allow to cool.
Stir in the concentrate, tannin, pectolase, and 1 crushed campden tablet.
Cover and leave for 24 hrs.
Add yeast and nutrient.
Ferment on pulp for 3 days, stirring twice daily.
Strain into demijohn.
Ferment out.
Rack, fine and filter as normal
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