Recipe - Rhubarb Wine

3 pound Rhubarb
3 pound White sugar
1 teaspoon Yeast nutrient
1 ga Hot water (doesn't have to
be boiling)
2 Campden tablets (crushed)
Wine yeast

From: dan@clark.net (Dan Eisenreich) (COLLECTION)

Date: 4 May 1994 02:46:47 GMT
There are two things that you have to know about to make good rhubarb wine:

1. Chop up your rhubarb stalks and freeze them in plastic bags for a few
days before you make the wine. I really don't understand why this should
make a difference, but it does. If you use fresh rhubarb the wine never
comes out as good.

2. You have to have patience. Rhubarb wine can taste uninteresting at eight
months and really good at ten months. You have to let it mellow.

Use frozen cut up rhubarb. Put it in the primary fermentor (a
"kitchensize" clean plastic garbage can works really well) along with the
sugar. Cover and let stand for 24 hours. Add the hot water, mix everything
together and then strain out the rhubar . Put the liquid back in the
primary fermentor and when it is lukewarm add the rest of the ingredients.
Cover and leave it to ferment for three or four days. Then syphon the
liquid into gallon jugs with fermentation locks. There will be a fair
amount f sediment, so when the wine settles a bit (about a month) you will
want to rack it. Be sure to top up the bottles. We bottle ours at about 6
months. This last year I made one batch of straight rhubarb and the other
batch was mostly rhubarb with about a pound of green grapes crushed and
thrown in as well. Both were entirely drinkable, but the one with the
grapes added was definitely better.

REC.FOOD.RECIPES ARCHIVES

/FRUIT

TAKES 810 MONTHS

From rec.food.cooking archives. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.