Home Brewing: Rocket Fuel

Here is my Nan's recipe for Rocket Fuel AKA Peach wine

Ingredients:

• Peaches 3lb
• White sugar 2.2lb
• Brown sugar 1lb
• Citric acid 3tsp
• Tannin a smidgeon(grape or tea choose your poison)
• Water 1 gallon
• Yeast and nutrient
• A Pectic enzyme(a variety are available on the market)

Wipe and stone the peaches
Pop the peaches into a bucket and mash well by hand
Cover them with boiling water and leave overnight
Stir in the pectic enzyme, cover and leave for three days
Strain through muslin (an old muslin nappy does quite well tied to the unpturned legs of a chair. I object to my tablecloths being used the same way as they don't work as well)
You may need to strain it again if some sludge is left
Add the citric acid, tannin and nutrient
Put 2 lb of sugar into a bucket and add enough boiling water to dissolve it.
Allow to cool
Put the strained peach juice and sugar solution into a fermenting jar
Add sufficient boiled water to bring the mix up to the shoulders of the jar
Add the yeast and fit the air lock
Fermentation should start within three days
Roughly after two weeks add 1/2 pint of syrup (sugar dissolved in water to proportions noted above)
It will probably take seven to eight months for it to ferment but you can keep it going for longer
You may need to split up the ferment to allow for the extra syrup
Don't forget to stir the misture once a day for the first couple of weeks
This should clear very well if you rack it after all the sugar is in.
Don't rack it again unless fermentation has finished

See also:
The Embroidery Library