The following recipe is courtesy of Harvington Imbibers Society for lavender wine which we are contemplating for our next brew! Local recipe for local people, gotta be tried I reckon...
Lavender Wine
Ingredients:
- ¼ to ½ cup dried lavender flowers (off the stems)
- ½ lemon
- tin of white grape concentrate
- 2½ lbs sugar
- yeast
- yeast nutrient
- water - to make 1 gallon of wine
Method:
- Pour 2 pints of boiling water onto the dried flowers and the chopped up lemon.
- Allow to sit, covered, for 3 days - removing the lemon a few hours after you start.
- Dissolve the sugar in hot water and add to the strained of lavender liquor in a demijohn.
- Add grape juice concentrate, yeast nutrient and activated yeast.
- Fit fermenting lock and ferment until finished and clear topping up with water when initial phase has calmed down.
Note - this made a very unusual tasting wine that finished at 18%.
The Lavender taste came out more and more over time and became a zesty fresh flavour. It might not be to everyone's taste and I would treat it as an aperitif not a table wine.
Lovely if served slightly chilled as an appetiser on a hot summer day.
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