Canned Pie Cherry Wine
Ingredients
- 2 (16 oz.) cans of pie cherries(sweet eating cherries can be used ,add an additional tsp. of acid blend)
- 3 1/2 quarts water
- sugar
- 1 tsp. acid blend
- 1/2 tsp. pectic enzyme
- yeast and nutrient
Heat the water. Drain the syrup(save). Put cherries in a strainer bag and place in fermenter, add syrup 1 1/2 lbs sugar to warm water and stir until sugar is dissolved. Check specific gravity. The goal is 1.90 (or 12% alcohol)add more sugar if needed. Pour this mixture over cherries in fermenter, add acid, yeast nutrient, pectic enzyme and tannin. When cool add yeast and let ferment 5 days then remove strainer bag . Let ferment until done.
