Winemaking: Dandelion Wine 2000

We created our own recipe for Dandelion Wine based on our ingredients on hand and a combination of various recipes. Here's what we did.

2 quarts dandelion heads
1 gallon water
2 lemons
2 oranges
1 lb white sugar
1 lb dark brown sugar
4 oz clover honey
1 lb golden raisins


Pick the dandelions at mid-day when the blooms are wide open. Completely remove the stalks, but it's ok to leave on the little petals. Put the flowers into a ceramic bowl. Boil the water, and pour it into the bowl over the flowers. Cover tightly with plastic wrap.

Let sit for 2 days, stirring twice each day. Put mix into a pot and boil again. Add in sugar, honey and peels, and boil for an hour. Return to ceramic pot and add in juice & pulp of lemons and oranges. Stand until cool. Add yeast spread on toast, cover, and stand for 3 days.

Strain mixture and put into fermentation vessel. Add in raisins and top with airlock. Leave until fermentation stops, rack and bottle.

Wine is drinkable after 6 months, but tastes best after a year.

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