Grapefruit Wine

6 ea Large Grapefruit
3 lbs* Sugar
1 gallon Water
Yeast and Nutrient

 

Clean the fruit and grate the skins finely. Put the water, gratings and juice into a bowl, and add the yeast. Stand the bowl in a warm place (70F / 21C is ideal), covered closely, and leave for five or six days, stirring thoroughly twice daily. Strain off the liquor through a nylon sieve, or two or three thicknesses of muslin, and dissolve the sugar in it. Put into fermenting jar and fit air-lock. Leave to ferment out, and when this has happened rack into clean bottles and cork firmly.

*UK measurement is 3.5 lbs

Recipe contributed by Good King Richard

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