{"id":440,"date":"2014-06-20T08:31:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T08:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/?p=440"},"modified":"2014-06-20T08:31:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T08:31:18","slug":"silver-birch-sap-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/freefood\/silver-birch-sap-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Birch Sap Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So now you have your <a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/silver-birch-sap\/\">Silver Birch Sap<\/a> you may think what could you possibly do with such a sugar rich liquid. The answer is of course, make wine! Unfortunately we do not have any pictures of the batch we made this year but I can tell you it ended up being an off-white coloured wine and one of our more enjoyable brews. We will definitely be making this one again next spring.<\/p>\n<h2>Minimum Equipment Requirement<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Gal Demijohn or Drum\/Tub<\/li>\n<li>1 Airlock<\/li>\n<li>1 Siphon Tube<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ingredients for 1 Gallon Silver Birch Wine<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Gallon Silver Birch Sap Unprocessed (not boiled down or anything).<\/li>\n<li>1133g Sugar<\/li>\n<li>2 Lemons<\/li>\n<li>277g Raisins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Method<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sterilise your equipment<\/li>\n<li>Boil the Sap and Lemon together for 20 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Add the sugar and raisins and stir in while still warm<\/li>\n<li>Strain the flowers \u2013 keep the liquid but not the flowers themselves<\/li>\n<li>Place into the primary fermentation bucket\/Demijohn<\/li>\n<li>Allow the mixture to cool until it reaches around 21C<\/li>\n<li>Add yeast and yeast nutrient<\/li>\n<li>Cover and place airlock<\/li>\n<li>Keep in a warm dry place<\/li>\n<li>After 8 weeks, test the mixture with a hydrometer. Add sugar according to taste if it\u2019s ready to bottle.<\/li>\n<li>Add a crushed Campden tablet to clear according to the tablet instructions and allow to settle<\/li>\n<li>Rack Off and bottle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now you have your Silver Birch Sap you may think what could you possibly do with such a sugar rich liquid. The answer is of course, make wine! Unfortunately we do not have any pictures of the batch we made this year but I can tell you it ended up being an off-white coloured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/freefood\/silver-birch-sap-wine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silver Birch Sap Wine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[92,93,10],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freefood","category-recipes","tag-sap","tag-silver-birch","tag-wine"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}