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Corn Cob Wine

Sweet and light, homemade corn cob wine is a delicious use for discarded corn cobs!
Prep Time 30 minutes
Fermentation and Aging 183 days
Course: Drinks
Cuisine: wine

Ingredients
  

  • 12 Corn Cobs, Stripped of Kernels
  • 4 lbs Sugar
  • ½ tsp Pectic Enzyme
  • Tbsp Acid Blend
  • tsp Tannin Powder
  • 1 tsp Yeast Nutrient
  • 1 packet Wine Yeast
  • Water

Method
 

  1. Fill a large pot with two quarts of water and bring to a boil.
  2. Break or cut cobs into 2 inch sections and add cob pieces to boiling water and simmer for 30 minutes.
  3. Strain, reserving liquid. Add liquid to fermentation vessel and add 4 pounds sugar, stirring until dissolved.
  4. Add water to fill, then stir in pectic enzyme, acid blend, tannin powder, and yeast nutrient. Cool to room temperature.
  5. Sprinkle about ½ of yeast packet on top of the mixture in the fermentation vessel.
  6. Cap vessel with an airlock and let sit in a cool, dark place to ferment for 7-10 days, stirring daily.
  7. After primary fermentation is over, rack wine to a clean vessel, leaving behind sediment.
  8. Cap vessel with an airlock and let sit in a cool, dark place. Rack after 1 month and top up with water. Let sit an additional 2 months or until fermentation has ceased.
  9. Bottle wine and age for at least 3 months.