My First Ginger Wine

[FatDad]

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Just started my first ginger wine. Here’s what I did.

Ingredients
About 8 Inches of Root Ginger
5 Litres of Spring/Mineral Water
1.5 kg Sugar
Zest & Juice of 4 Lemons
500g Raisins (chopped)
1 tsp Wine Yeast
1tsp Yeast Nutrient
1tsp Pectolase
1tsp Citric Acid

1) Peel and finely slice ginger. (You can peel ginger quickly and easily simply by scraping the skin with a teaspoon – this method ensures you remove only the skin and gets around the knobbly bits easily - sounds too simple but it really works)

2) Place in a plastic container with the lemon zest (not the juice), chopped raisins and 2.5 litres of the water which has just been boiled.

Ingredients in the container.
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3) Seal the container with a lid and leave for 24 hours.

Boiling water added.​

4) 24 hours later, in a sanitised jam jar quarter filled with tepid water add the yeast, yeast nutrient and 2 teaspoons of sugar. Put the lid on the jar and shake it to mix the yeast. Leave to one side for 15 minutes in a warm spot.

5) Add the final 2.5 litres of cold water with the sugar dissolved in it to the container with the fruit from the previous day. (I had to transfer my mix into a larger container as the one I had used originally was woefully small)

In the FV ready to seal for 3-4 days.​

6) Take the Original Gravity at this point. Mine was 1124 which means a potential alcohol content of 14.5%-15%+

7) Add the yeast, Pectolase and Citric Acid and mix well.

8) Seal the lid and leave for three or four days.

9) After this time transfer the liquid to a demijohn using a sanitised sieve and funnel.

10) Give it a final quick shake then add a bung and an airlock.

:party:That’s it!:party:
I’m expecting to rack it a few times once the bubbles stop in the airlock to clear the wine before bottling.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Excellent post. :thumb:

 

[FatDad]

Thanks for the positive feedback as ever Chippy :)

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I have copied some of your recipe brew-day threads to the wine and cider recipe forum. :thumb:

 

[FatDad]

I have copied some of your recipe brew-day threads to the wine and cider recipe forum. :thumb:

Would you prefer me to post items like this directly into the recipes section next time or stick to posting in the wine and cider brewdays section as I have been doing because these are my brewdays notes? (I will only post recipes with this much detail if they are recipes I have done myself, other interesting recipes I will post into the recipes section anyway)

 

[Chippy_Tea]

No carry on as you were, it only takes a couple of seconds to copy them.

 

[Niman]

1024 og?...

 

[FatDad]

1024 og?...

Sorry, 1124 (right at the end of the scale but still on the scale) :)

 

[TheSalad]

I've done a very similar recipe a number of times now and had excellent results. Cannot recommend it enough!!!

 

[Manxnorton]

:thumb:buzzing to try this recipe..
ATB
Brian

 

[FatDad]

Ginger wine now bottled:-

Gone from this:

to this:

It's an Xmas wine (in my mind anyway) so I called it 'Olde Fezziwig's Ginger Wine' and at 14.5% it should make winter evenings a little warmer or maybe just turn them into a blur.