plum wine is a typical home brew beverage. Something that even if you don’t have any interest in beer, spirits, cider and more you might still find you make. That is because plum wine is very simple in practice but very reliable.

This makes plum wine an especially common cultural recipe and product.

The way we make our plum wine is dry but you can change this to suit your taste. We just ask you don’t try and create a sweet cordial wine. It will make us sad.

You will need:

Approximately 500g ( 1 pound) of plums
Approximately 300g (.66 pounds) of sugar
1 litre or 1 quart of water
Yeast

Equipment:

Fermenter. We suggest a wide mouth fermenter.
Air lock
Funnel
Stirring Spoon


Method:

Peel your plums and remove the core or kernel.
Place the plums in your fermewnter
Add a layer of sugar.
Repeat layers of plums and sugar and repeat until all used.
Add your water.
Ad d yeast and stir.
Close fermenter and add air lock.
Wait several weeks.
Transfer plum wine to individual bottles and leave to age.