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snail59

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Last year I purchased 6 hanging herb baskets. They hung around the pergoda covering the fish pond and we enjoyed fresh herbs for cooking. This year we now have 6 hanging baskets of MINT. So has anyone got a recipe for a mint wine.
 
From a US site.

4 cups mint leaves, tightly packed
6 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup lemon juice
2 green tea bags
1 teaspoon yeast nutrients
1 campden tablet
1 gallon water
1 package wine yeast or champagne yeast



Rinse mint leaves in cold water. Place clean leaves in a pot and cover with boiling water. Let sit 1 hour. Strain liquid into primary fermentor and lightly squeeze the pulp. Place pulp back in pot, and again cover with boiling water. Let sit 1 hour. Squeeze all liquid from the pulp. Discard pulp. Add water to make up to 1 gallon. Add sugar, nutrients, lemon juice and campden tablets. Stir to dissolve sugar. Let sit overnight.

Next day, Specific Gravity should be 1.090 - 1.100. Stir in yeast. Stir daily for 2 or 3 days until frothing ceases. Siphon into secondary fermentor and attach airlock.

For a dry wine, rack in six weeks, and every three months for one year. Bottle.

For a sweet wine, rack at six weeks. Add 1/2 cup sugar dissolved in 1 cup wine. Stir gently, and place back into secondary fermentor. Repeat process every six weeks until fermentation does not restart with the addition of sugar. Rack every three months until one year old. Bottle.

If wine is not clear, or still has quite a bit of sediment forming between rackings, Fine the wine as follows:

Use wine finings or plain gelatin. Gelatin: use 1 teaspoon per 6 gallons of wine. Finings: 1/2 teaspoon per 5 gallons or as per package directions. Soak in 1/2 cup cold water for 1/2 hour. Bring to a boil to dissolve. Cool. Stir into wine. Let sit 10 to 14 days. Rack. If not clear enough yet, repeat process. DO NOT increase amount of gelatin or finings. The mixture will stay suspended in the wine, preventing it from ever clearing. Bottle once wine is clear.

The wine is best if you can refrain from drinking it for one full year from the date it was started.
 
snail59 said:
So has anyone got a recipe for a mint wine.
Yes :thumb:

You don't want it :sick:

Eat more lamb.


corby_brewer said:
The wine is best if you can refrain from drinking it for one full year from the date it was started.
Bullsh!t, this is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
 
Moley said:
snail59 said:
So has anyone got a recipe for a mint wine.
Yes :thumb:

You don't want it :sick:

Eat more lamb.


corby_brewer said:
The wine is best if you can refrain from drinking it for one full year from the date it was started.
Bullsh!t, this is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
Moley It was Mrs Snails Idea. Im with you on the Lamb thing but SWMBO is a Vegie.
C-B might give it a go. Do you want some. Would go well with your Tomato sweetcorn concoction :D
 

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