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Runner Bean Wine?
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:09 pm
by duncang
Good Afternoon all,
Just wondering, can one make wine out of surplus runner beans? I plan on growing a fair few this summer
Have found a couple of results in google, nothing conclusive though...
Look forward to your thoughts and ideas...
Duncan
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:34 pm
by chadspad
Hiya, I have a recipe for elderberry & runner bean if youre interested? CJJ Berry says that it is a first-class & well-balanced wine - praise indeed I reckon!
mmm...sounds good
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:24 pm
by duncang
Go on, share the wealth, you have me licking my lips!!!
Look forward to hearing from you!
Duncan
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:22 pm
by chadspad
OK, here goes:
2 1/2lb Elderberries
8 oz Red grape concentrate
1 lb Runner beans
3lb sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons tartaric acid
1 vitamin B tablet
yeast & nutrient
1 gallon water
Boil up some fresh, young runner beans in a little of the water, do not use the water in which beans have been cooked for the table, since it will have been salted. Strain off the bean liquor. Put the elderberries into a plastic bucket and pour over them the rest of the water, boiling. Add the sugar and stir well and pulp the elderberries with a kitchen spoon or potato masher, then add the bean liquor.
When cool add the acid, vitamin tablet, nutrient & yeast. Cover closely and ferment on the pulp for four days, stirring daily. Then strain into a fermenting jar and fit an airlock. The wine will ferment out quickly but will be longer than most in maturing, even with the help of the runner beans. If you need to speed the process, the cautious addition of a little glycerine is recommended; and you may well find that one of the modern artificial maturing agents now on sale in wine shops is a help.
Enjoy
