Green Gooseberry Wine
Ingredients
- 5 lbs ripe green gooseberries
- 2 lbs sugar
- 6-7 pints water
- yeast nutrient
- yeast
- pectic enzyme
Or a lighter version
- 2 1/2 lbs gooseberries
- 2 lbs sugar
- 1 campden tablet
- 1/2 tsp acid blend
- 1/2 tsp yeast nutrient
- 1/4 tsp grape tannin
- 1/2 tsp pectic enzyme
- 1 gallon water
- wine yeast
Starting specific gravity should be 1.080-1.085, acid .65%
Top,tail and wash the berries, put into a large bucket and squeeze by hand until they are pulpy. Add the enzyme and water, (for lighter version add campden tablet, let sit 12 hrs, then add the rest of the ingredients except the yeast). Allow to stand for 3 days, well covered, stir occasionally. Strain then add the sugar(in lighter version this is already done), stirring until it is dissolved. Then add the yeast and yeast nutrient. Put into fermenting bottle until fermentation has finished. Rack then rack again in 6 months. Age for 1 year.
