Home made ginger wine recipe (part 1)
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- In this video, we show how to make a classic sweet fiery ginger wine. In part 2 we will cover techniques for clearing, stabilising & back sweetening the wine
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I love your passion for wine.
Thanks Lee - it's a cheap, fun hobby
Lovely, thank you so much.
@@rudolphvincent8646 So glad that you liked it
Thank you sir! Looking forward to trying this drop during our bitterly cold -40c winters in central Canada. Cheers!
I love ginger, and this sounds so intriguing! Thank you!
Definitely worth trying if hot, sweet & spicy is your thing 🙂
Yes I would love a video about growing ginger!
I'll film it through the year Jason!
Another great video, thanks Hugh / Fiona. This is one I'm going to try. I made some parsnip wine following another recipe you posted and it was absolutely delicious, so I'm looking forward to trying this. It sounds like the kind of drink that would be great as an Xmas aperitif.
It's quite a sweet drink (actually very sweet & spicy) so quite enjoyable as a dessert wine or in place of Port / Madeira
Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it Gretel
I would like to thank you for this vid. I LOVE ginger wine and always buy Stone's. I can't wait to make my own and see how it compares to the commercial one. You have a kind charisma and your vids are educational and entertaining at the same time. I couldn't believe the vid only had 2.7k views but please continue, I'm pretty sure in time you'll get the recognition you deserve! Instant fan here!
That's very kind of you - thank you!
Your video is composed of excellent taste, knowledge and friendliness. Congratulations on your beautiful home!! There is great health, longevity and happiness for its residents. You are like a good wine!! the older the better!!! Thank you very much!! Hug from Brazil!!
Thank you so much
Sounds like a great wine. Looking forward to part two. I think I will be giving this a go.
Definitely worth it if you like a powerful warming drink 🙂
Thanks Hugh-another really good video. I make lots of wine but this is a new one to try, as we’ve been growing ginger in a cold greenhouse for the first time.
Really worth a try this one Tim. Very much a hot sweet warmer. More Madeira than wine but great on a cold day
Thank you for the recipe and video
You're very welcome Anita, I hope you enjoy it
That's going to be some great wine.. watched through to the end because you have a great explaining style. Cheers
Thanks Ricky! I've just started racking & stabilising so part 2 out soon - it's going to be great!
Greatly enjoyed,all the best for 2023.
Thank you - second part coming soon. Happy New Year!
Hugh, cheers from nz. Great videos.. Ive started my journey through them all and will continue.
Best wishes to all. Love your perky delivery and positive ways. All good! 😀. Learnt lots taaaa. 👍
Thanks so much Hartley h do let me know which ones you enjoy when you make them!
That’s really interesting and it sounds like a wine that I’d love to try. It’s great to watch it being made as my wine making has only previously been done from written recipes and you’ve shed a lot of light on terms and language of wine making that I didn’t understand (pitching the yeast for example!). Interesting about using a heat mat too as I also live in an old and cold cottage. I have had very good results with rhubarb, blackberry and plum wines but as I’m aiming to make a demijohn every month, I’d love to see what other seasonal ingredients could be used over a year. As always, your enthusiasm is infectious, many thanks 👍
Thanks so much Pippa! I love living in a building with history - but those flagged floors ❄️❄️
Love this recipe!
The last time I made it, I added white grape juice and honey in primary to up the ABV. For backsweetening I simmered 3 cups ginger with two cups water, strained, used that juice with honey, which elevated the zip of ginger.
Thank U many and much!
That sounds great! 👍
Great video. I make Ginger wine but generally use white sugar. I'll try the dark sugar next time! I use a couple of my home grown cayenne peppers and bung a brown banana in for good measure. We really love it as a sipping wine on a cold evening. I don't stabilise, I kind of keep it going by adding in syrup until it gives up fermentation... Eventually. I have it in my pantry where it gets warm and cold depending on conditions, so starts and stops over a few months.
Great to meet another ginger wine maker! Do you add raisins or just the banana?
@@EnglishCountryLife Oh definitely raisins... well, actually mixed fruit. It's what I generally have on hand for baking. I've always got brown banana in the freezer and I read it was a good nutrient, so usually add one to a white wine. I avoid chemicals completely and so far so good, I'm on my third year of wine making and no spoilage at all. Made cider for the first time last autumn and it's looking fantastic. Love your videos, by the way!
What an absolute coincidence, I'm starting a ginger wine tomorrow for next Christmas and your video pops up this evening. I'll give your recipe a go Hugh. Every blessing for 2023!
Happy New Year Dean! I hope you enjoy this much as we do 🥃
@@EnglishCountryLife bless you.
Looking forward to the ginger growing video! I haven't had much success growing it myself and any tips and tricks will be greatly appreciated! :)
I had a few problems too - but seem to have it sorted now 😊
Great Video. I use fish tanks heaters for my fermenting.
That's a great idea!
@@EnglishCountryLife, Never felt comfortable it putting something in the wine to heat it, so I put the fermenter in a bigger plastic box filled with water and put the fish tank heater in the water in the box.
@@guywest2181 If that works for you...
G'day from Down under. I made a batch of your Elderberry wine.Followed your recipe and had a rather high SG of 1.130 I used Tandaco bakers yeast, as i could not obtain the wine yeast i wanted. It fermented out in a week. Zero activity in the airlock FG was a high 1.020, calculated as ABV 14.8.So there is some residual sugar, making for a heady semi sweet very juicey wine. Thank you for the recipe, Will be trying This ginger wine next
Hi, a little residual sweetness isn't a bad thing - it xan be quite port like
Made a batch of this using your recipe and I just finished racking off to get rid of the sediment and back-sweetened and it tastes amazing!! Thanks for the recipe :)
I'm so glad - thanks for letting me know. Merry Christmas ⛄
Just completed my first batch up to the secondary fermentation. It tastes great already, even if it looks like muddy water!
It truly looks awful doesn't it 😂? I promise it looks great at the end Ann!
Many thanks for this recipe, I have a gallon brewing as I write and it smells divine! I used Youngs high alcohol wine yeast, fermaid o for yeast nutrient and I did add 6g heavy toast French oak chips. One wine I do want to try this year is gooseberry but this is the Indian version called Amla wine made with gooseberry, jaggery and Indian spices 😮
That Amla sounds wonderful 👍
This is one I'm going to try. I actually made Christmas pudding wine with Crossmyloof yeast and broached it last Christmas there. Oh yes! Cheers!
It really is a spectacular yeast isn't it?
BTW I've just bottled my blackberry port which I made from pulp. It's been sitting on oak for a year. It's rather nice and will only improve. Thanks for the inspiration!
@@sevenowls7776 Fantastic! I must admit that I'm always delighted that I took the time to devise that recipe one Autumn - it's often requested for Christmas presents
Cool video! I'm definitely not far along on my homestead to be making custom wine (I only have 6 chickens, some meat quails, a rosemary bush for adding flavor to turkeys and such, and a dying lemon tree) but still interesting to learn stuff like this.
I have every confidence that you could do it if you wanted! I killed two lemon trees - then gave up!
@@EnglishCountryLife My mother planted a basil plant for adding basil to spaghetti; worked for a little bit until we used the entire thing.
@@LeoTheYuty You need plenty of basil plants - in big pots!
Good evening Hugh, and Fiona. Hope you are both well. Loved the video and will defo give it a try. Do you have any experience and knowledge on making mead? Would love to see a video if you do.
Hi Dali! Happy New Year! 😁. I have made a lot of mead over the years - I really must film a batch - it's on the list!
I like the thought of your hot fire, and sweet. Mine is dry. But makes my wear and tear arthritis in my feet. Feel happy! On a snowing day , with freezing temps of 25degreesF
Absolutely - wish we could trade - I'd love to try yours
Love this process. Can I ask, why don’t you blend the raisins etc with the ginger at the beginning?
When you say blen do you mean pulverise in a blender?
I make ginger wine ,in Rock Springs Wyoming U.S.A. with local Honey and home grown grapes !
That sounds fabulous. How much ginger do you add to a gallon batch?
I made 10 gallons 1 gallon of ginger plup
Could the primary fermentation vessel be used to for secondary fermentation as well? Could it be filtered then put back into the same, cleaned bucket vessel?
Ideally you want a secondary vessel that is completely full and air tight with an airlock - you need more room in the primary to allow for vigorous fermentation so they are generally different sizes
Love the videos. I am struggling to make marrow wine could you tell me how to improve it, please? It is either very strong or bittersweet.
I'm sorry Ivy, I've never made marrow wine 😟
That’s an interesting recipe. I can’t seem to locate it on your website though. Can find elderberry etc but not this Ginger one.
Oh no 😊. We forgot to post it! Please check back in half an hour and it will be there. Feel free to point at me and laugh 😁
Thank you for using a metric system for your unit of measurement
I'm old enough to use both, but metric is easier to scale 😊
Sir very nicely you have shown but can we use white sugar.
You xan although it might taste a little different
Would this work as a mead? Would love to see this done as a wonderful mead .
A ginger metheglin (spiced mead) could certainly be done, although it would need a different recipe
I live in Papua New Guinea wishing the Highlands, lots of fresh fruit to make wine, ginger in abundance BUT I have no access to several of the added (chemical additives) I can only go all organic, cloudy or not cloudy, wine yeast or not, are not options I have, what suggestions do you have ? For all natural
There are lots of wines that would work with wine yeast and sugar, but sadly, this one won't. Most fruit wines will ferment out can be created with the right amount of sweetness by adjusting the sugar. Clearing will eventually happen naturally.
The price of ginger has shot up over the last few months - so growing your own would be brilliant
In terms of return it's brilliant - £5 per square foot 😯. But better yet, the taste of fresh ginger is vastly superior 😋
Wanted to know how to make beetroot wine and how long it takes to forment .
That's not one I've tried, sorry - bet it would be an awesome colour though!
I just love your Ginger Wine I would love your Recipe Please Send to Greta
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Thanks Greta, you can download the recipe here
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What’s pectic enzyme n where I get it and what is the alternative
Pectic enzyme breaks down pectin found in fruit. Pectin makes wine hazy. It's widely available from home brew shops or even Amazon
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A kilo of ginger, Oh boy, I dare say if you didn't grow ginger you wouldn't make this recipe, ginger is damned expensive in AU to buy at the supermarket, unless you love ginger wine then maybe you'd do it. Here in AU we have a brand of ginger wine called stones and its ick, booze heads get it cause there's lots of alc in a 1.5lt bottle for cheap but needless to say, great video, Hugh!! Cheers
Thanks! How much does ginger cost there? It's about £5 a kilo here
@@EnglishCountryLife hey Hugh, about $30-35 per kilo here in australia, sorry about the last comment, I was drunk on homemade kit pale ale and doomscrolling and trying to find brewing videos, 😅.
I meant to say this brand made green ginger wine and that is quite horrible, cloyingly sweet, very boozy and hot, homemade and higher quality proper ginger wine would be much better. I'm rewatching your video sober, I can't remember what you said the abv/Alcohol. Vol was
I enjoy hopped ginger beer so I would probably like a nice ginger wine, just can't get stones out of my head when anyone says the words ginger+wine in the same sentence lol. Cheers 🍻🍻
@@Quinny1394 It was a great comment & it's always fun talking to a fellow brewer. ABV should come out at 12 to 14% although it does vary by batch. $30 a kilo is a terrifying price. Given the climate there I would be setting up a ginger growing operation pronto !
Something we have cheaper than you then - in NZ! Not often we do. I think its about $8 a kilo here at the moment.
@@EnglishCountryLife Not AUS but in NZ it's about $8-ish a kilo. Does fluctuate though but still reasonable and yes, I have it growing albeit slowly.
Any info on rhubarb wine?
It's on the plan for later this year!
I’ve never attempted to create alcoholic drinks on my own, what would be the easiest drink to start?
Making beer from a kit is probably as easy as it gets!
How do you grow your ginger?! I've tried so many times with different UA-cam methods and it always seems to go bad 😔
Hi Peter, I'll video it this year but
If buying shop Ginger scrub well under the tap before planting
Plant after the risk of frost has past
Plant just under the surface in a sharp, well drained potting mix
Keep compost damp but not wet
Grow in an unheated greenhouse, conservatory etc.
Harvest when top growth dies back
@@EnglishCountryLife thanks very much, I eagerly await your video.
My chickens have enjoyed many ideas borrowed from your other videos !
Kindest regards to you both
What about an apple and pear cider?
The trouble is Fiona keeps eating all the pears!
@@EnglishCountryLife 🤣
@@lindaoostmeyer4637 Seriously she loves pears - if I made cider I'd be sleeping with the chickens!
Does this wine taste like stone ginger wine
Hi Helen, it does but tuned to my taste - a little more gingery and not as sweet. If you want Stones taste use less ginger (750g) and back sweeten more
Tq I've tried many recipes still can't get the stone type ill try yours n ill give you a feedback....Happy Easter