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Better Brew Hedgerow Wine Kit 23L
Better Brew Hedgerow Wine Kit 23L
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Sanitise your fermenter, equipment and bottles first with ChemSan no-rinse sanitiser.
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Chemsan 250ml £10.99
The Better Brew Hedgerow Wine Kit gives you every ingredient except the fruit and sugar to make 23 litres of fruit wine from your garden or the hedgerows. It comes with 17 recipes, from apple and blackberry to sloe, elderflower and even birch sap.
What's in the kit
- Wine yeast and nutrient
- Enzyme - stops pectin from causing a haze
- Citric acid - to adjust acidity when fruit is ripe and less acidic
- Bentonite - helps clear the wine
- Stabiliser - lets you keep the wine for more than a few weeks
- Two-part finings (Finings A and B) to remove yeast at the end
- Instructions with 17 recipes
Recipes included
Apple, pear, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, cherry, blueberry/cranberry, elderberry, elderflower, gooseberry, currant, sloe, plum, grape, rosehip, birch sap and dandelion. Most recipes use 4.5-6kg of sugar plus the fruit.
How it works
Dissolve the sugar in 10 litres of boiling water, add the prepared fruit and the enzyme, then top up to 23 litres. Add the yeast once it's 30°C or below and ferment for about two weeks. Strain off the fruit, stabilise, fine, rack and bottle.
Allergens: contains sulphites and a product of crustacea (chitosan finings). You'll need a 25 litre fermenter with airlock and a straining bag; finish with a twin lever corker and corks.