EASY Elderflower Champagne 🍾 - Little Garden Big Dreams

EASY Elderflower Champagne 🍾 - Little Garden Big Dreams
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ELDERFLOWER CHAMPAGNE ingredients:

8 litres warm water
1 kg sugar
5 lemons
4 tablespoons white wine vinegar
10 large elderflower heads, stalks removed and cleaned
1 sachet of champagne yeast
1/2 tsp yeast nutrient
Instructions:
Pour warm water into a large pot
Add sugar and stir until dissolved.
Zest the lemons. Then cut the lemons in half, squeeze and juice. Add the zest, juice and lemon halves to the sugar-water mixture.
Add white wine vinegar.
Add the flower heads and gently stir the whole pot for a couple of minutes until mixed.
Cover with a clean muslin or towel and leave to ferment in a safe, cool space.
After 24 hours, check for telltale signs of fermentation: bubbles and foam activity. If no activity (bubbles at the surface), add a sachet of champagne yeast and 1/2 tsp of yeast nutrient.
After 24 to 48 hours, remove the flowers.
Allow the mixture to continue fermenting for a total of 5 to 7 days.
(If using a hydrometer, wait for it to drop to 1010 for 2 days then sieve and decant into strong sterilised glass bottles.
Fermentation will continue, so release excess pressure in the bottles by turning the screw top every so often.
After 1 week, you should have your champagne. Leave longer if you wish, up to 3 months. Serve chilled from an ice bucket.
*recipe adapted from delishably.com

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