Ingredients
Juice of one lemon
Grated rind of one lemon
1 Pint of elderflowers
8 pints boiling water
1.3kg sugar
25g (Half an ounce) live yeast
Method
(1)Put lemon rind with the elderflowers and pour boiling water over them.
Allow to stand for 4 days, stirring occasionally.
(2)Strain through a fine sieve or muslin cloth
Transfer to Demijohn together with sugar, lemon juice and yeast then stir and add airlock.
Keep at room temperature to ferment, try not to let it go down to 18c (65f)
(3)When you are sure all the bubbling has ceased, stir the wine and allow to settle for 3 days
(4)Strain again carefully through Muslin
Clean out/Sterilise Demijohn and put liquid back
(5)After 3 months maturing, transfer to bottles
Notes
I wanted to try my hand at making wine this year and since i wasn't adventurous enough to try nettle wine i turned to Elderflowers.
For the live yeast i got mine from J Sainsbury's. Apparently Tesco's also sell it. But this is uk only.
Update
This is maturing now, ready for bottling in October.
Elderflower wine is so much better than Nettle wine, so you made the right choice. I still have a bottle of nettle wine, unloved and probably never to be opened
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