iam thinking of doing a lemon and pineapple wine, will this work. :wha: my idea is to chop the lemon and pineapple and boil and mash it and sweeten with honey, could i just put all this and the fruit in the bucket to ferment, would the fruit sink or will i have to scoop it out. :)
lemon and pineapple wine
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Off the top of my head I think it would be rather lacking in body, so zest of the lemons (10) and juice along with 1-1.5 kg of well chopped sultanas, along with the skinned and chopped pineapple in a bucket along with 800g of sugar and ferment on the pulp for 2 weeks using a potato masher to mash the pulp up well daily and get all you can out of them.
Just a thought. Tannin and pectolase as well.
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Just a thought. Tannin and pectolase as well.
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i make yogurt and lemon goes well with pineapple, it makes the pineapple stronger taste, i will give it a go and i think this is gonna be nice and refreshing, i have just started home brewing and i know this is gonna be good, thanks for your reply and i will drain as much juice out as i can. :
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Sorry call it 1kg and 400g of sugar. My bad 10 lemons is a bit excessive, most recipes use 6-8 I would probably use the zest of at least 6 though to give you the flavour and then just the juice of 2 as Moley said :thumb: . You will be relying on the sultanas to give you the body as nothing else is there to give it, hence the extract as much as you can from them.
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I am so so keen for this i wanna make it :P a turbo version maybe ?
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This sounds like a nice summer drink, I have been considering doing a pineapple and grapefruit brew myself; keeping it around the 5% mark and making it fizzy like an alcoholic lilt!
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i did the 30 bottle (youngs) sauvignon blanc, i cut and chopped 1 big pineapple and 1 big lemon and boiled to 185- 190%c and added about half a jar of honey, kept it at that temp for half hour mashing. then i strained into bucket then added boiled water again from kettle to the fruit and mashed the juice out, i kept doing this till i got all the juice, then i made it to 15% vol. when bottling i added a heaped teaspoon of sugar. wow i have 2 wine bottles left, everyone commented on it and you only needed 2 glasses to get you talking all night lol, iam now fermenting 8 oranges and 1 lemon with the same kit to 12.5%. :
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