Brewday ! Rose/Ruby wow

[Roddy]

Evening peeps, stuck on a cheeky 25l WOW, was going to be a chippy_tea rgj/apple & rasp staple but couldn't get all the juice I wanted, so slightly varied....

3l Asda red grape (they only had 3l on the shelf)
3l Welches purple grape 'light' (bought that thinking it was the original, but OK cos it has some sweetener in it
4l Princes apple & rasp
900g tin of Youngs red grape concentrate (went to lhbs for yeast and kwik clear and had to spend more than a tenner when paying with a card so picked up that too), might not have been a bad call considering the welches is only 25% juice !
1l of strong tea
5tsp pectolase
5tsp youngs super yeast compound
4.5kg sugar

sg 1.090, so assuming 0.990 finishing, should be about 13% ish

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[Chippy_Tea]

What juices have you used?

 

[Roddy]

haha did my post in two parts this time mate, sure that last time the second half of my post went missing last time when I tapped out a long thread on my phone !

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Sounds good, I have done 4 DJ's of red grape juice (2 in each) to see how it turns out.

 

[Roddy]

the only juice being red grape ? be interested to hear how that one turns out

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I decided to try it after reading a members post saying he had made it and it was good, fingers crossed it turns out well.

 

[Roddy]

bottled it ! literally hehe

getting a nice wee stock going in the shed, and some to 'age' in my new wine/cider shelf 😃 View attachment uploadfromtaptalk1437426700706.jpgView attachment uploadfromtaptalk1437426719159.jpg

 

[Roddy]

scuse the water spots on the ceiling, haven't got round to painting over that yet 😯

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[Chippy_Tea]

Looking good.

 

[Roddy]

hmm this one wasn't all that, little bit watery tasting, maybe down to the welches 'light' juice but I thought the Youngs concentrate would have compensated...

when tasted alongside the tropical wow I made in the batch before, the tropical one is miles better

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I try to use 100% juice as a lot are 30% or less, we like the strength at 2 litres per DJ others prefer 3 per DJ, you could always add a little juice to the glass to give it a bit more taste (i was going to say to the bottle but they look quite full)