Strawberry Wine

Strawberries - I have 400 grams frozen strawberry / blueberry mix and 500 grams (a punnet) of fresh strawberries from Aldi.
2 liters apple juice
2 liters white grape juice
pectolaze

• Put the mix of fruit - frozen and cut fresh fruit into a pot with hot juice - 1 liter.
  
• Put juice into primary fermenter, Add pectolaze 1 tsp.
• From juice itself - 1050 SG. Added 250 grams sugar.
• Add Yeast and start fermentation in primary fermenter.
• Fermenting really actively.
  
• 2011.06.04 strained into glass fermenter. SG=1010.
  
• added 300 grams of sugar
• 2011.06.18 added 1 campden tablet but no potassium sorbate. I want to make it sparkling. SG=985
  

Rhubarb Wine

2011.05.14
Ingredients:

2KG Rhubarb Stalks
Sugar
Campden Tablet
Yeast Nutrient

Preparation:
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques34.asp about this

• Cut into small pieces, freeze.
• Put into primary fermenter, pour 1 litre boiled water on top, add 1 KG sugar. 1 Campden tablet.
  
• Leave for a few days - 3 days. Strain through sieve and muslin bag
• Add water to 1 gallon. SG=1100
• Add 1/2 tsp tannin, 1/4 tsp citric acid, 1/4 tsp tartaric acid, 1/4 tsp wine nutrient, 1/2 tsp pectolaze. Pitch yeast - acid limiting yeast, MA33. Sparge 129 grams sultanas and add too.
• Leave to ferment. Need to buy precipitated chalk and add to reduce acidity (oxalic acid first of all)
• added 2tsp of chalk.
• 2011.06.18 Stopped fermentation. SG=985
  

Brewing plan.

Plan for brewing:

Wines that we can make

1. 4th May - Raisin wine. Too late
2. 1st June - Fig medium - Not participating.

3. 6th July - Strawberry

4. 3rd August - Rhubarb.
5. 7th September Flower wine - Hibiscus wine, and Belgian Fruits beer.
In September start Elderberry for next year
6. 5th October - we are not there. Merlot of Jannis.
7. 2nd November  - red mixed fruit / heavy red. 
Cider rough or smooth. Ginger apple cider
8. 2nd December - Christmas Drink, make liqueur. Maybe avocado liqueur.
9. 6th January - nothing
10. 1st February Hedgerow wine.
11. 24th February - Fundraiser, chutney competition.
12. 7th March, Rose wine, Irish stout.
13. 4th April AGM.
14. 2nd May, Citrus wine - maybe Yuzu concentrate.
15. 2nd June - Elderberry made last year