Homemade Black Currant Wine Recipe

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Homemade Black Currant Wine
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Ingredients
5
Count
Nutrition
692
Calories
Total time
43320
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 1 quart black currant nectar or 1 quart juice
  • 1/2 cup sugar or 1/2 cup honey
  • 1/2 cup boiling water
  • 1/4 tsp champagne yeast (available at brew stores)
  • 1 dash yeast energizer (available at brew stores)

Directions:

  1. Add sugar or honey to boiling water to dissolve.
  2. Allow to cool to 105* F.
  3. Add yeast and yeast energizer, stir, then cover with cloth.
  4. While allowing the yeast time to wakeup (1 hour) sterilize the stopper and airlock.
  5. Open the quart bottle of juice or nectar and pour out 1 and 1/4 cup of it (this doesn't need to be saved.).
  6. Add the mixture to the juice/nectar, put the lid on and invert the bottle a couple of times to mix up the two.
  7. Insert your sterilized bottle stop and then insert your airlock into that.
  8. Add water to the airlock, enough to meet the watermark in both chambers.Place it in a warm area and let it sit until the airlock bubbles only every 3 minutes or so. (one to two weeks).
  9. Once the fermentation has slowed down considerably, pour (or 'rack' with a siphoning tube) to a bottle of the same size. This will separate your wine from the 'lees' (the dead yeast that accumulate in the bottom of the bottle).
  10. Remove 1 cup of the wine and taste test or dispose of. It's not needed at this point. If the fermentation went well it won't be sweet at all at this point.
  11. Add another cup of warm sugarwater (1/2 water & 1/2 sugar dissolved) to the bottle and reinsert the stopper and airlock (sterilized again if necessary).
  12. Let ferment until the airlock is bubbling once every five minutes.
  13. 'Rack' again and at this point you can either drink the wine or let it age for another two months before enjoying.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 691.98 Kcal (2897 kJ)
Calories from fat 0 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0g 0%
Sodium 66.1mg 3%
Potassium 1293.57mg 28%
Total Carbs 172.56g 58%
Sugars 167.19g 669%
Dietary Fiber 4.17g 17%
Vitamin C 75mg 125%
Calcium 95.8mg 10%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 61.52 Kcal (258 kJ)
Calories from fat 0 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0g 0%
Sodium 5.88mg 3%
Potassium 115mg 28%
Total Carbs 15.34g 58%
Sugars 14.86g 669%
Dietary Fiber 0.37g 17%
Vitamin C 6.7mg 125%
Calcium 8.5mg 10%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 13
    Points
  • 18
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • fat free,
  • saturated fat free,
  • very low sodium,
  • cholesterol free

Bad Points

  • High in Sugar

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