goteamwhatever
Well-Known Member
So I went to my great grandmothers and she gave me a bunch of mayhaw jelly she had made. So I brought it home with me on a mission to make homemade mayhaw jelly wine. So tonight I took about 12 cups of mayhaw jelly and put in stock pot with 20 cups of water and slowly brought to a boil skimming off what froth came to top, didn't get all of it. After it started boiling I removed it from the heat. Let sit for 15 minutes or so and poured it into my 5 Gallon carboy. Added cold water to bring to right under 5 gallon and added 5 crushed campden tablets to cup of hot water to dissolve then poured into carboy. checked sg which was at 1.040. I want a sweet wine so I added sugar to bring up sg. Got it to 1.080. Covered with clean rag secured with a band. Will check sg again tomorrow before I add my yeast. Got a package of lalvin k1 v1116.