How To Make Dandelion Wine
- December 2, 2009
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You Will Need
- 1 gallon dandelion flowers
- Gardening gloves
- 2 gal. hot water
- 2½ lbs. brown sugar
- 4 oranges
- 4 lemons
- 1 package wine yeast
- 10 empty wine bottles and corks
- 1½ lbs. granulated sugar (optional)
Step 1: Harvest dandelions
Pick 1 gallon of dandelion flowers right before making the wine so they’ll be fresh. Wear gloves to prevent pollen from staining your hands.
Step 2: Soak flowers
Trim the stalks and rinse the flowers. Then soak them in a gallon of hot water for a few hours. This will make tea used to bitter the wine.
Step 3: Dissolve sugar
Dissolve the brown sugar in a different gallon of hot water, and then add it to the dandelion tea.
You can substitute granulated white sugar for brown sugar.
Step 4: Combine with citrus
Juice the oranges and lemons and add the juice to the tea.
Step 5: Add yeast
Add the wine yeast and ferment the concoction for 12 hours, or until there is no more activity from the yeast.
Step 6: Strain and bottle
Strain the mixture, pour it into the empty wine bottles, and seal them with corks.
Step 7: Age
Age the wine for at least six months, and preferably up to a year, because it will taste better with age.
Did you know? Ray Bradbury’s novel Dandelion Wine, published in 1957, first appeared as a short story in Gourmet magazine in 1953.
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