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It is hard to advise you about the
ingredients for your watermelon wine (especially in such a large quantity). I
would first try and gauge how sweet the juice is (watermelons vary a lot).
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If you raised the watermelons - did
you have to water them a lot, were they very large or just a large crop -
small, concentrated watermelon produces the sweetest juice.
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Sieve the juice before you start
and before you taste it. If you are intent on using all juice and it is sweet
to taste, start about a gallon off with some yeast and the juice from 2
lemons. If it is fermenting well a week later (steady bubbling that hasn't
subsided since day 2), start the rest.
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If fermentation stops abruptly
during the week, add about 1 cup of sugar and the lemon juice to another
gallon. If you have to add more than a cup and a half to keep it fermenting a
week it probably won't make good wine.
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If you do a good job sieving it at
the beginning, it should be crystal clear and no further chemicals need to be
added (and quite potent !) after it stops fermenting. Make sure ALL action has
stopped before you decant it into bottles.
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