Malt Wine

Ingredients

• 5 gallon water
• 28 lb sugar
• 6 quart sweet-wort
• 6 quart tun
• 3 lb raisins
• 1/2 lb candy
• 1 pint brandy

Instructions

1. Boil the sugar and water together for 10 minutes;
2. skim it well, and put the liquor into a convenient-sized pan or tub.
3. Allow it to cool;
4. then mix it with the sweet-wort and tun.
5. Let it stand for 3 days, then put it into a barrel; here it will work or ferment for another three days or more;
6. then bung up the cask, and keep it undisturbed for 2 or 3 months.
7. After this, add the raisins (whole), the candy, and brandy, and, in 6 months' time, bottle the wine off.
8. Those who do not brew, may procure the sweet-wort and tun from any brewer.
9. Sweet-wort is the liquor that leaves the mash of malt before it is boiled with the hops; tun is the new beer after the whole of the brewing operation has been completed.