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by fill2top » Fri Sep 10, 2010 3:14 pm
ingredients: for rice and raisin wine, 1 gallon.
Brown rice- 1lb (454gm)
Raisins-1lb (454gm)
Granulated sugar- 2lb (907gm)
Tea, strong- 1/2 cup
Lemons-3
Marmite-1/4tsp
Wine yeast-compound.
Method:
Put brown rice in fermenting bin. Add raisins after rinsing in warm water and chopping. Warm 1 pint of water in your pan
add the sugar and marmite. Stir when dissolved allow to cool. Then pour into the fermenting bin.Cover. Extract juice from the lemons. Discard pips, pith and peel. Make a strong cup of black tea, discard the bag or leaves. Add to the fermenting bin when cool with the lemon juice, and 4 pints of water. Add the yeast compound and ferment.
Stir twice daily for ten days. After 10 days strain of the solids, and put the liquid in a demijohn top up with cold water.
Fit air lock and fully ferment out.
Rack when fermenting as stoped,and leave for at least 12 months.
Note: This wine achieves peak perfection about 24 months after being racked into a storage vessel to clear and mature.