Easy Strawberry Wine

• Vegan
• Gluten free

• Produce

  • 3 lbs Strawberries, fresh

• Baking & Spices

  • 2 lbs Cane sugar, granulated
  • 1 package Wine yeast
  • 1 tsp Yeast nutrient

• Beer, Wine & Liquor

  • 2 tsp Citric acid or wine acid blend

• Liquids

  • 5 pints Clean water

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Description

Directions

• For a single batch, place strawberries, sugar and citric acid in a 2 gallon crock. (The berry mix will bubble in the early stages of fermentation and may rise out of a one gallon crock.)
• Crush fruit with a potato masher or pastry blender. Cover berry/sugar mix with 5 pints boiling water.
• Stir wine must with wooden spoon to dissolve sugar and simultaneously mash the strawberries.
• When cooled to 85°F (29°C), add yeast and yeast nutrient. Cover and stir daily for seven days.
• One the 7th day, strain through cheesecloth or a flour sack towel. Transfer to secondary fermentation vessel with airlock.
• Add sterilized water to top up to one gallon of liquid and seal with a fermentation cap. (A fermentation cap is an airlock that allows carbon dioxide to escape but keeps oxygen out.)
• Store out of direct sunlight for 30 days. Rack into a clean fermentation vessel. Store for 30 days more, rack again. Allow to settle 3-5 days and bottle when clear.
• Age for at least 6 months. Flavor improves up to a year.