How To Make Pumpkin Wine

Homemade Wine Recipe

Ingredients: Pumpkin Wine

Method - What to Do

4 pints chopped pumpkin2 1/2 lb / 1,100 grams sugar3 teaspoons acid blend1 lb / 450 grams raisinsWine yeast1 teaspoon yeast nutrient / energiser8 pints / 1 gallon boiling water1 campden tabletDice the pumpkin flesh and add to winemaking fermentation container, with chopped raisins and boiling water. Stir well, adding all of the other pumpkin wine ingredients, but not the wine yeast. When the pumpkin mixture has cooled to room temperature, mix in activated wine yeast and allow to ferment for five days, stirring pumpkin wine mixture several times each day.Strain the fermenting pumpkin wine must and pour the liquor into a wine demijohn, with airlock. Rack the pumpkin wine for the first time at one month, and then again at approximately four months and eight months. Bottle the pumpkin wine when it has reached one year old and allow to stand for up to one year.