Plum Wine

     Going through our notes the other night I came across a receipe we used back in December 2000 for a bucket brewed Plum Wine. Having a bucket and brewer spare for the moment we have decided to give it a go again as we the last batch being quite explosive. Being woken up by bottles exploding under the house is no fun, even less when you realise what the noise is and see glass everywhere. So we will try again and it's off to the brew shop and then the produce market.

     The first part of this brew is to cut in half and crush the plums into a bucket adding half the sugar and a campden tablet with some boiling water to get rid of the natural yeasts on the fruit.The next day we add some Pectinese to remove the Pectin enzyme as we don't want to make jelly, then the following day we added the yeast and yeast nutrient. This stays in the bucket for 2 more days when we will strain it into the fermenter adding the rest of the sugar and more water.

    The full receipe and directions will be on the receipe page and we will update you as we go.