Making Plum Wine

I followed instructions found here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Plum-Wine/ but was forced to modify the recipe slightly.

My plums are of a small yellow variety and unknown weight due to not owning a working scale.

The plums were then boiled up with a tiny amount of water to soften and sterilise. I added black tea and lemon then, after cooling, a small amount of bread yeast... I know, not what the recipe calls for but I have used before in Elderflower Champaign and that turned out fine... we shall see.

After a few days I strained the pulpy mess through cheesecloth and transferred to the 4.5 litre demijohn jar with airlock.

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Plum Wine

Plum Wine

With an excess of plums and apparently to much spare time, I decided to try and make wine. The process is reasonably simple, so I have high hopes.
No doubt as other fruit come ready I'll be experimenting with other flavours.
January 30, 2010

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