Pineapple-Orange Delight

This is the first in the series of recipes from Making Wild Wines and Meads.

"The color is light, but the flavor is redolent of the tropics. Choose a ripe pineapple, one that will release a leaf of its topknot with a firm tug--or give the pineapple the sniff test. The flavor--and ultimately the bouquet of your wine--will be reflected in the aroma of the pineapple, you use"

Yield 1 Gallon

4 pounds ripe pineapple

1 tablespoon light brown sugar

4 ounces golden raisins, chopped

2 pounds orang-blossom honey

12 ounces ornage juice concentrate

juice of 1 lemon

1 teaspoon orange zest

1/4 teaspoon tannin

1 teaspoon yeast nutrient

1 teaspoon pectic enzyme

1 Campden tablet

1 package wine yeast


Chop and core the pineapple, and transfer to a 2 gallon plastic bucket. Add the sugar and raisins, and set aside.

In a medium saucepan, mix the honey in 1/2 gallon of water and bring to a boil. Skim off foam. When no more foam rises to the top, pour the honey-water mixture over the pineapple mixture. Add the orange juice, lemon juice, orange zest, tannin, yeast nutrient, pectic enzyme and Campden tablet. Let stand for 24 hours.

Add the yeast and let the mixture ferment for one week, stirring daily. Remove the solids. Pour th eliquid into an airlocked fermentation vessel and let ferment for 1 month. Rack again and let ferment for two months. Rack again. When fermentation is complete bottle.

Wait at least six months before sampling.


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Any Pub in London Bitter

This is the first in a series of recipes taken from The Homebrewer's Recipe Guide. There are a couple things to know about making these recipes.

1. All recipes are for a 5 gallon batch

2. Most recipes are extract recipes

3. All recipes us liquid yeast

The name says it all. This style of classic ale can be found in every pub in London. It is a very light beer that is usually served hand drawn and at cellar temperature in London pubs.

Ingredients

3 1/3 pounds light malt extract - this is usually 1 can

2 pounds light dry malt

1 1/2 ounces Kent Golding hops for boiling

1 ounce Cascade hops for finish

2 teaspoons gypsum

1 teaspoon Irish Moss

1 package London ale yeast

1/2 cup corn sugar for priming

Procedure

Combine malt extracts, gypsum and Kent Goldings hops in water

Boil for 1 hour

Add 1 ounce Cascade hops and Irish Moss for the last 5 minutes of the boil

Cool wort and pitch yeast

Fermentation should be complete within 10 days.

Bottle using corn sugar.

Age in bottle 5 to 7 days.

Other Posts in Series

Basic British Brown Ale

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Blueberry Port

6 pounds (12 cups) blueberries

1/2 cup Dry malt

4 cups granulated sugar

1/2 teaspoon acid blend

1/2 teaspoon pectic enzyme

1 teaspoon yeast nutrient

2 campden tablet

1 package Sherry or Port yeast

water



Crush the fruit. Add 12 cups of water and all other ingredients except the yeast. Stir well to dissolve sugar. Let sit overnight.

Specific gravity should be between 1.090 and 1.095. Sprinkle yeast over the mixture and stir. Stir daily for five days.

Strain the must and squeeze the juice out. Siphon into secondary fermentor, add water to make up volume and attach airlock.

Rack in three weeks, and every three months for one year. You must finish wine dry when making Port. Bottle

The wine is best if you can refrain from drinking it for one full year from the date it was started.


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Saison

Ingredients:



8 lbs extra pale dry malt extract

13 oz. pale candi sugar (or white table sugar)

7 AAU's hop pellets - 70 minutes

½ oz hop pellets-5 minutes

Wyeast or white Labs Saison yeast (or culture your own from the dregs of a good

bottle-conditioned Saison).

/>Method:



Heat
6 gallons of brewing water (use two pots if necessary). Stir in malt
extract into the brewing water until dissolved and boil for 70 minutes,
adding hops and sugar as indicated. Cool to 80 degrees and pitch yeast
starter. Aerate thoroughly. Ferment at 80 degrees to 88 degrees. O.G. = 1.072.



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