This simple country wine makes about 5 gallons (30 bottles) of pear wine. I have a pear tree in my garden and we always have lots left. Pick them before they fall (just).
It produces a nice full flavoured wine and depending on how much raisins are added the colour appears quite dark.
Ingredients
25lb Pears
Juice of 6 lemons
10lb of Sugar (I actually use 4Kg or 8.8lb)
100 grames of Raisins
Yeast
Boiled Water
Method
Wash and remove the stalks of the pears. Chop or slice them up into a 5 gallon brewing bucket.
Cover the pears with boiled water (up to 5 gallons), this will probable be all the water you need.
Leave for about 2 days.
Add the juice of the lemons and the raisins.
Leave for a week, it may start to ferment on its own.
Strain the liquid through a muslin cloth into a fermenter, including all the juice from the pulped pears and raisins. Top up with cold water to 25 litres,
Add the sugar and mix.
Add the yeast.
Fit the airlock.
This should now be left to brew for around 4 weeks or when it has stopped.
Once the fermentation has stopped you can filter the liquid to another vessel or leave it to clear.
Add a Camden table and leave a few days.
Once it has cleared bottle the wine in clear bottles and leave for at least a month.