Sunday 27 November 2011

juice and frozen red fruit

4 litres mixed red 100% juice
a package of frozen red berry or red fruit from aldi.
1tsp of precipitated chalk,
1tsp of pectolaze
1tsp wine yeast
nutrient, sugar

  1. simmer and cool, add to juice, juice initial gravity = 1050
  2. added 500 grams of sugar so 500 grams equals 41 points of sugar, can now assume initial gravity to be 1100 due to the sugar in fruit. so the potential alcohol is at maximally 13%.
  3. Added 120 grams sugar later on to increase SG by 10 points and assure alcohol levels at about 13%.
  4. After 5 days - strained. Realized had not added anything for the body so chopped up a banana - with 1/3 of its skin and boiled for 10 minutes in the wine, let cool and added to the demijohn in the hope it will add some body and additional tannin. 
  5. Strained after a few days - through sieve, SG = 995. Added 120 grams sugar and fermentation stopped as well as a crushed campden tablet 
Very nice! Balanced, with good tannin, more sweet than dry, very pleasant. Not bad body but not perfect yet.

2012.02.21 Bottling

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