A little something I made earlier this year.
I think this is one of not so well known recipes so I put it here
My fermentation jar is 30 liters and I usually make around 25 liters of wine (6,6 gallon)
So what you need is spruce needles and you need to collect them early on summer, you dont collect the dark old needles only the fresh growth tips.
you need to fill a big plastic bag with them, not sure of the weight probably 1-3 kilograms. Once you feel like having **** loads of them you get out your hugest pot and put the needles in with water and heat it up and boil them for some time, if possible you should let them stay in the water over night. Afterwards you just pour the water in to fermentation jar and add sugars honeys and yeasts and so on.
(I did mine with 5 liter kettle so that I boiled needles for less than 15min and threw the water into the fermentation jar, added some needles and water rinse and repeat. The last 5 liter patch I let stay overnight and I noticed huge difference.)
I used 4 kilograms of sugar and 4 kilograms of honey. Honey might be optional.
I used wine yeast from a wine kit.
This wine is very good for medicinal use, against flu and sore throat. It's taste is very close to forest and quite manly, not many women including my mother liked it, and trust me she has a thing for almost any alcohols. I really like the strong forest flavor it has.
I still have around 1 gallon of it I might add picture later.
Tell me what you think about it.
I think this is one of not so well known recipes so I put it here
My fermentation jar is 30 liters and I usually make around 25 liters of wine (6,6 gallon)
So what you need is spruce needles and you need to collect them early on summer, you dont collect the dark old needles only the fresh growth tips.
you need to fill a big plastic bag with them, not sure of the weight probably 1-3 kilograms. Once you feel like having **** loads of them you get out your hugest pot and put the needles in with water and heat it up and boil them for some time, if possible you should let them stay in the water over night. Afterwards you just pour the water in to fermentation jar and add sugars honeys and yeasts and so on.
(I did mine with 5 liter kettle so that I boiled needles for less than 15min and threw the water into the fermentation jar, added some needles and water rinse and repeat. The last 5 liter patch I let stay overnight and I noticed huge difference.)
I used 4 kilograms of sugar and 4 kilograms of honey. Honey might be optional.
I used wine yeast from a wine kit.
This wine is very good for medicinal use, against flu and sore throat. It's taste is very close to forest and quite manly, not many women including my mother liked it, and trust me she has a thing for almost any alcohols. I really like the strong forest flavor it has.
I still have around 1 gallon of it I might add picture later.
Tell me what you think about it.