Dandelion Wine Recipe #3 - May be the BEST of them all!

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Dandelion Wine #3

Makes about 4 gallons

 

   1. Pick 2 to 3 gallons of fresh, yellow dandelion flower tops. Remove all green.
   2. Slice up three oranges and two lemons and one pound of raisins.
   3. Put all this into a primary fermentor and pour four gallons of boiling water over the flowers, raisins and fruit. Let the mixture cool overnight.
   4. Add enough sugar to bring the SG to 1.090 to 1.100 and add one pack of wine yeast.
   5. After 10 days strain out the flowers and fruits and siphon into a carboy and attach an airlock ferment 30 days.
   6. Rack and put back into carboy for further fermenting.
   7. After 90 days rack again and bottle when clear.

 

It is ready to drink in 6 months. This recipe is said to be good for rose petal wine in a similar manner.