Just as this site have mentioned before, Wines could be made through the fermentation of any non-toxic fruit or plant. To prove this we have a watermelon wine recipe that we would like to show you. If you use these ingredients and apply the steps in wine making, you will be able to ferment your own watermelon wine. You could do this at home if you have your wine making kit and perhaps you could serve this recipe to your friends during one of your parties.

This Watermelon Wine Recipe, if done right, will hopefully produce a Gallon of good quality watermelon wine.

Ingredients:

2 qts Watermelon juice
1 1/2 lbs sugar
2 1/2 tsp acid blend
1/8 tsp tannin
1 tsp nutrient
1 Campden Tablet
1 pack yeast
2 qts water

Steps:

1) Extract the juice from the watermelon. You can do this by chopping the watermelon, putting it in a nylon strain bag and squeezing the juice out of the fruit into the primary (remember to take out the seed before extracting the juice).
2) Add all the ingredients except the yeast; stir to dissolve and then cover with clean, sterile cloth.
3) Refrigerate for 24 hours
4) After 24 hours, add the yeast. When fermentation starts, stir the mixture.
5) If indicated by the hydrometer, add more sugar. Stir to dissolve, then set aside for three days to a week (until specific gravity measures at 1.040)
6) Press the juice from the nylon bag; take the bag out of the primary and discard
7) Rack the watermelon juice to the secondary and over with airlock
When specific gravity drops to 1.000, repeat racking process (more or less, after three weeks) to discard lees (air lock whenever racked)
9) Repeat Racking until no more lees and the wine is clear
10) Bottle and age from six months to one year

A few warnings and reminders that you should remember when fermenting your own homemade watermelon wine:

• Watermelon’s rate of spoilage is fast. To avoid this, it is suggested that the juice is refrigerated during the first 24 hours after the ingredients are added.
• The amount of sugar that you will add to the wine depends on what the hydrometer indicates. The required sugar to be added may be more or less than the amount indicated in the ingredients list.
• To produce a good quality homemade watermelon wine, the watermelon to be used must be ripe, sweet and of good quality.
• Follow recommended specifig gravities to ensure that the watermelon wine you are making will turn out to be a good quality watermelon wine

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