On 25 Feb, 21:32, (Doug Miller) wrote:
> In article >, McKevvy > wrote:
>
> >You're right - I've omitted the pectin. I checked the Boots book of
> >Home Wine and Brewing and they use pectin in their recipies. I've been
> >using a recipe for Braeburn apples from elsewhere and it doesn't
> >mention pectin.
> >I learn something every day
>
> Pectin and pectic enzyme are two different things. There should be no need to
> add pectin to an apple wine, since apples have lots of pectin already --
> that's why I suggested you might need to add pectic enzyme to get rid of an
> excess of pectin.

Correct. I should have added PECTOLASE to destroy the PECTIC enzyme.

McK.