Hoping for the best

[Spookwoman]

Had some hip, crab apples 1 cooking apple and a few eating apples about so decided to make wine. Couldnt fine any recipe for apple and hip so winged it with 700g of apple and 700g of hip. Then I thought hmmm grate some ginger in. Left it for about 10 days stirring daily to stop any mold forming. Damn could drink it now it tastes so good and if it works out ok it won't last very long once it goes into the bottles.
I added 3lbs sugar, pectin enzyme, yeast and the yeast nutrient today and put into a demijohn to fester, fingers crossed.

 

[buMbLeB]

You waited 10 days before introducing the yeast? I'm curious what the thinking behind that was, doesn't that just start rotting? Or are you trying to give the wild yeasts a chance to start (in which case, why add more yeast later)?

Other than that the ingredients sound tasty, let's see how it goes.

 

[Spookwoman]

10 days was the mashed hip, apple, ginger and water nothing else. Have an old wine making book and all recipes same with fruit water and leave for 7 + days. Then strain add yeast, sugar etc. Already popping like mad downstairs

 

[lukebuz]

hmmm. I don't think letting it set for 7 days is a best practice...
What is the benefit?

 

[Spookwoman]

This is for hip but will give you idea of what I mean by leaving for 10 days. All the recipes say leave for so many days before straining and then adding yeast etc

 

[Aristotelian]

What is hip? Don't a lot of those recipes call for just using yeast from raisins and such?

 

[A_McG]

Page 42 paragraph 3 says to add the yeast. Paragraph 4 picks up with leaving it in the bucket for ten days then strain off the fruit and ferment to completion.

 

[Spookwoman]

on the rest inc blackberry hip etc they all say leave in bucket for 10 or so days before adding yeast so following the majority which also don't include raisins. This book is basic old recipes that have 3.3 or 3lbs fruit then 3lbs of sugar, yeast, yeast nutrient and pectin enzyme. Mum used the book before me and made very very nice wine from it
Hip is the berry of roses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_hip