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Roddy

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Evening all

OK so I wanted to stick on something cheap (and not too nasty)

Have a passion fruit cider in mind for next time when I have some more dough and the inclination to find the passion fruit stuff.... but

The bits and pieces
4L Asda red grape
2L Don Simon red grape
6L Asda tropical
5tsp pectolase
1L strong tea
4kg sugar
4tsp youngs super wine yeast compound
Cost of stuff... about �£16

The way
Poured a couple of bottles of juice into FV
Added sugar
Added kettle full of water, dissolved sugar
Added rest of juice
Added 1L tea
Topped up to 25L with tap water

Temperature about 20deg
SG 1.090 (est. 13.11% when fermented out to 0.990)

Sprinkled on yeast, bunged in cupboard

Sorted 😀

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Ingredients of the Tropical Juice






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Got a fine head of cheesy gunk, fermenting nicely... boke haha

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Can you taste much of the tropical in the final wine ?

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Funnily enough yeh, I can certainly tell, has a nice wee sort of mangoey hint to it😀

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Cheers roddy, I've only made rgj & apple so far and to add flavour I've been topping up the demijohns with more apple juice.

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Cheeky wee should reading time... and looks to be a shade under 0.990 so this one will get racked tomorrow night 😀

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Evening all

OK so I wanted to stick on something cheap (and not too nasty)

Have a passion fruit cider in mind for next time when I have some more dough and the inclination to find the passion fruit stuff.... but

The bits and pieces
4L Asda red grape
2L Don Simon red grape
6L Asda tropical
5tsp pectolase
1L strong tea
4kg sugar
4tsp youngs super wine yeast compound
Cost of stuff... about ���������£16






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Why the 2 different types of red grape juice ?

+ would this come out the same with lidl equivalents ?
 
Why the 2 different types of red grape juice ?

+ would this come out the same with lidl equivalents ?
Yer only reason was asda didn't have 6 of their own brsnd when I went !

Yeh doesn't matter if is a mixture, or Lidl red grape (I use that too)

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[emoji1362] Roddy

What's your stock pile looking like at the moment
Looking at bit sorry for itself laddie

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Soon to be remedied 😃😃😃

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Racked it 😀

Chucked in 5 x crushed Campdens, 2.5 tsp stabiliser and half a wee bottle of glycerine
Degassed a wee bit to stir in the stuff

Will degas a bit more tomorrow and add finings (kwik clear)

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Racked it [emoji3]

Chucked in 5 x crushed Campdens, 2.5 tsp stabiliser and half a wee bottle of glycerine
Degassed a wee bit to stir in the stuff

Will degas a bit more tomorrow and add finings (kwik clear)

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Can you explain why campdens are used ? See lots of recipes when used and others not - what's the rule and their purpose ?


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Many reasons
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campden_tablet
 
Bottled this bad boy, been a busy evening 😀

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