Ginger Apple Spice Wine

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This is my first recipe. I also am trying a pomegranate apple cider
(ask if you want the recipe for that though it's essentially the same
as another cider recipe but with half sugar/ half honey).

Ginger Apple Spice Wine
4 cups water
apple juice
1.5 cups ginger
2 T lemon zest
1 pinch American saffron
½ t cinnamon
½ t clove powder
½ t nutmeg
¼ t lemon juice
2 cups sugar
1/8 tsp EZ cap yeast
Directions: peel ginger (duh!); cut ginger into medallions then chop
lengthwise 2-3 times (`til you have strips that are just large enough
not to go down your funnel when you need to pour the mix into your
soda bottle); toss ginger strips into the 4 cups boiling water in a
pot on the stove; turn heat down to medium; add lemon zest, saffron,
cinnamon, clove, nutmeg; simmer for 40 minutes; add lemon juice and ½
of your sugar (1 cup); stir vigorously and remove from heat; stir
mixture every few minutes for about 15 minutes when it is still warm
but you aren't worried about your plastic soda bottle melting; pour
OTHER half of sugar (1 cup) into soda bottle; strain mixture on stove
and pour mixture into soda bottle; Shake it up until very little sugar
mixture left at bottom of bottle when you turn it over and look. Add
yeast, turn over bottle several times to disperse yeast. Put on EZ
cap. Wait impatiently.

This stuff smells really good and tastes nice, too. I think it's a
good mixture. If it ends up being terrible, I'm blaming my
inexperience as a master of fermentation. haha.

Thanks!
Desmond



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