Hop Wine

[dandan]

Well i've tried it today!!

Hop Wine:
25g Saaz
50g Striyan Goldings
25g Ginger
1.1Kg Sugar
1 Juice of one Lemon
No oranges in so added 1 Tsp Citric Acid instead
1 Youngs White Grape concentrate
1 Tsp Nutrient
Yeast

O.G 1086 at 26c

Method:

Boiled Sugar, Hops, Ginger and juice of Lemon in 4.5ltrs of Water for 1hr 15 min!, let cool to pitching temp and transfer to DJ, top up DJ to 4.5L add Citric acid, Nutrient and Yeast!

edited due to typo with the gravity, doh!!!

 

[Moley]

Sounds interesting, and the best of luck, but your OG or your sugar quantity must be wrong.

By my calculation 1.1kg = 38.7 ounces
That would give you and OG around 1.090

If it's really 1.068, even if it ferments out to .990 that's only around 10.5% abv.

 

[dandan]

Sounds interesting, and the best of luck, but your OG or your sugar quantity must be wrong.

By my calculation 1.1kg = 38.7 ounces
That would give you and OG around 1.090

If it's really 1.068, even if it ferments out to .990 that's only around 10.5% abv.

Cheers Moley :wha: sorry it was a typo!! it should of read SG of 1086 it was about 26c when i took the reading, so if you take into account the heat it works out at 1089!! :P so looks like I could have a 12/13% wine here

 

[Moley]

Cheers Dandan, glad our maths matches now :

Unless you stop that with sorbate around the 1.000 there's no reason why it shouldn't over-shoot into the dry, so 13 - 14% :thumb:

Talking of typos, I seem to have slipped in an extra "d"