Cranberry Wine Recipe 5 Gallons Homemade Food

HOMEMADE CRANBERRY WINE

Steps:

• Add the sugar and cranberry juice to a small saucepan and heat it just enough to dissolve the sugar. If using fresh cranberries, add water instead of juice and use it to dissolve the sugar.
• Allow the sugar and juice mixture to come to room temperature. While it's cooling, dissolve the yeast packet in a small amount of lukewarm water. Allow it to bloom for at least 5 minutes.
• Add the yeast nutrient and dried cranberries to the juice/sugar mixture and then pour it all into a primary fermentation vessel. Add the dissolved yeast.
• Cap with a water lock and allow the mixture to ferment in primary for 2-3 weeks. Alternately, allow the mixture to ferment without an airlock for about 5 days, then rack into secondary and add an airlock.
• Either way, once the mixture is in secondary, add an airlock. Ferment in secondary for 6-8 weeks before bottling. For a very dry wine, rack the cranberry wine a second time and ferment for another 6-8 weeks.
• Bottle in wine bottles and age for at least 3 months, but preferably a full year from bottling.

EASY HOMEMADE WINE

Steps:

• Pour grape juice into 5-gallon container.
• Bring water and sugar to a boil until sugar is melted.
• Let cool.
• Pour into container.
• Add 1 pkg yeast (activating beforehand is optional).
• Close with airlock stopper.
• Allow to ferment for 3 weeks in a sanitized 5-gallon container.
• After 1 additional week, bottle.