Dandelion Wine



Ingredients

Directions

Place flowers in primary fermenter

Boil water and pour over flowers. Let steep for 48 hours (no longer or wine will be bitter) covered tightly. Remove flowers with a stainless steel sieve and disgard.

Add sugar and orange juice. Adjust specific gravity to 1.090.

Rehydrate and pitch yeast.

Cover tightly and in seven days rack into secondary fermenter. Install a fermentation lock.

In three months rack into a secondary fermenter. Install fermentation lock.

In three months rack into a secondary fermenter. Install fermentation lock.

In three to five months bottle.

PS
2 quarts dandelion flowers 1 gallon water steep for 48 hours in food grade plastic container. Pour through seive into primary container. Add sugar to .090 Pitch yeast. Keep adding in small quanities unitl primary fermenter is full add orange juice and one tablespoon bentonite.

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