This light, rose-like wine is great for easy summer drinking. the pink cranberry juice isn’t as tart as regular cranberry, which gives it a sweetness even when it’s fermented dry. It has a beautiful pink color and is easy to make with store bought juice.
Pink Cranberry Wine
Difficulty: EasyIngredients & Equipment
2x 64 oz Ocean Spray Pink Cranberry juice
1.5 cups of sugar
One gallon glass jug
Bentonite
Fermax yeast nutrient
Red Star Premier Classique yeast
Directions
- Pour out 2 cups of juice into another container for drinking (or backsweetening later)
- Pour remainder of 64 oz bottle plus other 64 oz of juice into gallon jug
- Add 1.5 cups of sugar and stir or shake until sugar is dissolved
- Take a hydrometer reading – SG should be 1.074
- Add 1/4 tsp bentonite
- Add 1/4 tsp yeast nutrient
- Add Premier Classique Yeast
- Stir or shake until ingredients are well mixed
- Ferment until the hydrometer reads 1.000 or less
- Rack into a clean glass jug, leaving behind any yeast that has fallen to the bottom
- Leave until clear or use Sparkolloid as directed for faster clearing
- Add Potassium Sorbate and Campden tablet (if desired for stabilizing)
- Bottle