Apple wine is an excellent choice to start with in making homemade fruit wines. Apples come in so many different varieties and flavors that with a little experimentation outcomes can be amazing.
While this Recipe calls for the simplest starting - frozen apple juice, you can substitute - your favorite apple juice brand, and, of course, you can press or have pressed the apples of your choice (recommended).
Your wine mix is merely 2 containers of frozen apple juice (thawed) and 4 cups of sugar, more or less to taste, with about 2-1/2 quarts of water.
As with most easy wine recipes, you boil the sugar in about a quart of the water until it is dissolved, and add this to the apple juice.
Next add about 6 teaspoons of acid blend, a campden tablet (a sulphur-based product that is used primarily in wine, cider and beer making to kill certain bacteria and to inhibit the growth of most wild yeast), a quarter teaspoon of grape tannin, a half teaspoon of pectic enzyme, and a package of wine yeast.
You then prepare it as you would any other wine.
Apple juice is a great starting base for other fruit wines. You can experiment with it by mixing the apple juice with other fruit juices.
Half apple juice and half grape juice is good; cherry or blackberry juice also works well. Try different fruits that are in season...
You can also adjust this Simple Apple Wine Recipe by eliminating the apple altogether and using half grape juice and half grapefruit juice, etc. to get you going into many other fruit wines.
For the most palatable fruit wine, generally speaking, when using mixed fruits is to strike a balance. ir the best homemade wine you don't want to use all tart fruits or all sweet fruits.
A simple trick to to choosing fruit combination is to think of the colors of the fruit, and use two from different colors. For instance, grape and apple, banana and cherry, and so on. These types of mixtures usually make the best fruit wine recipes for homemade wines.
For more about cooking with apples, check out: Apple-recipes.org
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