How To Make Cabbage Wine
Add sugar and dissolve
Pour sugar sirup over cabbage which should be in a fermenting bucket
Ensure enough boiled water to cover cabbage
Add more boiling water if required (max one gallon 4.5 lires)
Cover and allow to cool, stirring every 20 minutes or so
When cool add 12-oz can white grape concentrate
Add citric acid
Add tannin or cup of strong tea (no milk or sugar)
Add wine yeast and yeast nutrient
Move to warm place and stir twice daily
After 7 days filter out cabbage and discard
Transfer must to demijon and ferment until fermentation is complete
Move to cool place
Rack wine as mant times as needed
Add crushed Campden tablet on last rack off
Sweeten to desired taste
Bottle wine
Cabbage wine is a rarely made wine but we give you the instructions here so you can try it, maybe you could let us know how you get on with this one. These step by step instructions mean you’ll soon be enjoying your very own homemade cabbage wine. Enjoy!
Preparation time: 50 minutes
Initial fermentation time: 14 days
Time to be ready to drink: 4 months
3 lbs shredded cabbage
12oz/340 grams white grape concentrate
1kg sugar
8 pints/4.5 litres water
1½ teaspoon citric acid
1/8 teaspoon tannin
1 satchet of white wine yeast.
1 tsp yeast nutrient
1 Campden tablet
Sweetness: Medium
Calories per bottle: 400 approx
Yield: 6 bottles
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