Stinging Nettle Wine Recipe (1-Gallon Batch)
Nettle wine is a delicious, and pleasent wine. It has refreshing citrus notes and a great mouth feel. The best thing about nettle wine is that it is super easy to make and really cheap. Please make sure to wear thick gloves when harvesting the nettles so that you do not get stung. Also pick the tips of the nettles as they are the sweetest and most flavourful part of the nettle.
The recipe is as follows:
1 carrier bag of nettle tips
500g Raisins
1kg Sugar
The juice of 1 grapefruit
1 cup of strong tea
1 pack of wine yeast
Method:
Place 3 tea bags into a mug. Add boiling water and leave to stew
Rinse the nettle tips carefully to remove and prests that may be on them. Drain the nettles and place them in a saucepan.
Add the raisins to the pan along with the sugar and the grapefruit juice.
Add 2 litre of water and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes
Let the mixture cool then drain into a 1-gallon fermentation jug
Add the mug of strong tea
Then add the yeast
Top the jug up to below the next of the jug leaving enough head space to avoid blow off from vigerous fermentation
After 4 weeks syphon the wine into a secondary fermentation jug and top up with water
Once the wine has cleared bottle the wine and leave to age for 3 months
The boiled nettles and raisins are great for tossing into your compost pile. The worms love them.
For a great nettle beer recipe click here
Comments
Post a Comment