Apple Wine - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    5 gallons apple cider (from a local farm)
    2 lbs of local wildflower honey
    2 lbs light brown sugar
    2 (1/4 ounce) packages red star champagne yeast
Preparation
    mix honey and brown sugar with 1 gallon of cider while heating on stove (simmered, not boiled).
    Add 4 gallons of cider with heated mixture and pour into fermenter.
    Add 2 pkgs champagne yeast (hydrated).
    Ferment for 2 weeks at 68F & Transfer to secondary, aged 4-6 weeks.
    Bottling - added 3/4 cup corn sugar and 12 oz lactose.
    OG: 1.072
    FG: 1.001.

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