Supermarket Juice Wine How To guide and Recipes.

[GDog]

I've just degassed and stabilized my first ever WOW, and it tastes amazing already (had a sip of the test jar when taking SG), and is a deep deep red!

Recipe below..

P.S. Thanks to Richards red, and @Vinotinto - I don't know how to tag a member so they see this.

x8 litres of RGJ, asda del Simon £8
x2 bottles of wilkos grape concentrate £6
x2 tsp glycerine
x2 tsp pectolase
x2 squeezed fresh lemons
x6 teabags brewed in 1L water
x2 tsp nutrient
x1 sachet youngs bergundy yeast £1
x2 l boiled water, disolving 1kg sugar 50p


started 12/11 , SG = 1.104
Went crackers and frothed over my bucket, lid sat on loose, no airlock.

19/11 - pushed lid firmly home, and added airlock to bucket. No bubbling to speak off, so think it had finished by then. Left for 1 further week.

26/11 - been busy, and wanting yeast to clean up - racked to x2 DJ's and a x2 litre PET bottle. SG = 0.990

I racked onto wilko stabilizer, which already contains Campden tablets in it.
Added 2ml Wilko finings pack A, and 10ml pack B to each DJ. Chucked the rest, as I couldn't fine kwik clear. Within hours I can see it working.
Stuck in me garage @ 9 degrees to clear.
Will bottle and start drinking next Saturday.

For not much over a quid a bottle, this looks promising..

I'm going to do a controlled test, smaller batch just 1 gallon, and leave out the wilko RGC to see what happens.

Al

 

[Tau]

When does a wow become just wine?

Each 220g red grape concentrate bottle can produce a rose type wine, grape juice (however obtained) from grape or someone else juicing them is just grape juice which makes wine.

Can we call that a Wow?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

WOW is an abbreviation of Wurzels Orange Wine if there is no Orange juice in it its not a WOW its a Juice drink wine or as i call it a supermarket juice wine, my opinion is whatever juice its made from if the ABV is in double figures its wine.

 

[El Draco]

Had a weird one today... Went to bottle the cleared wow's and found bits floating about in half of the dj's.
They are out the way and no-ones has disturbed them... Anyone had a similar experience?

Ran them through a filter and everything is ok taste wise...

The tropical sj wow is the daddy so far

 

[Tau]

WOW is an abbreviation of Wurzels Orange Wine if there is no Orange juice in it its not a WOW its a Juice drink wine or as i call it a supermarket juice wine, my opinion is whatever juice its made from if the ABV is in double figures its wine.

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Wurzels etc is def' on forum, but I remember making a wine some grape concentrate and added a bottle of juice drink, think was strawberry, raspberry and blackberry at end of ferm' didn't think much, 6 months later poured a glass for me & mrs, at same time we said WOW! It was really good, £20 red french blend good.

To me any unexpected ingredient that makes the wine great is a wow.

Added Fruit juices, tinned fruit, tea bags etc have been around in recipes for numberous decades don't all make you go WOW when tasted.

Maybe split sticky's into: Supermarket juice wines, grape juice wines, etc 1800 plus thread is hard to shift through for newbies and oldies :)

 

[GDog]

Feel free to move or remove my post, thought a wow was a juice wine

My mistake

 

[Tau]

Oh, did have a good WOW, with a Tescos juice concentrate recently as well.

240g Youngs red grape concentrate
500ml Strawberry & raspberry, hidden in ingredients was 7-9% blackberry, reason why I tried it. Turned out a good red wine after 4-6 months.
700g sugar, pectolase, nutrient and tannin, didn't use camdens or citric, youngs super yeast compound.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Maybe split sticky's into: Supermarket juice wines, grape juice wines, etc 1800 plus thread is hard to shift through for newbies and oldies

I did make a second version with all the recipes but i had forgot until you mentioned this, i must keep it up to date.

http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=33606

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[dublin12]

Oh, did have a good WOW, with a Tescos juice concentrate recently as well.

240g Youngs red grape concentrate
500ml Strawberry & raspberry, hidden in ingredients was 7-9% blackberry, reason why I tried it. Turned out a good red wine after 4-6 months.
700g sugar, pectolase, nutrient and tannin, didn't use camdens or citric, youngs super yeast compound.

Trying to cut down on additives - if I were to make a wow for usage in < 6 months I can leave out the campdens and just use the potassium sorbate?

 

[Tau]

I don't see why not? There's often a trace of sulphates somewhere in the prduction of these juice concentrates although often omitted on the ingredients.

 

[Zephyr259]

Something I've wondered about these wines, why do they only use 2L of juice and then make up to 4.5L with water and sugar? Does using all juice like in a turbo cider create too strong a taste?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Something I've wondered about these wines, why do they only use 2L of juice and then make up to 4.5L with water and sugar? Does using all juice like in a turbo cider create too strong a taste?

I guess because the original WOW was made with orange and grape juice 4 litres would have been overpowering, it may have been because they wanted to emulate wine not alcopop, i find 2 litres of 100% juice topped up with half a litre of juice then water to finish after racking (used to just use water) gives a nice tasting wine without going over the top.

 

[muggy]

i see on some recipes that although yeast nutrient is on the list , there is no yeast. is this just an oversight or left out on purpose. and if left out for what reason? cheers

 

[Rockuronium]

No yeast? well if left out, no wine. [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]


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[muggy]

better make sure i dont leave it out then. cheers rock

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I had a habit of leaving out the amount of sugar to add in recipes i posted.:lol:

 

[Graz]

Well I'm genuinely impressed, until discovering this forum I only really made beer but having read a bit about this WOW lark I thought I should give it a go + put to use the 5 demijohns that I've acquired over the years.

So last weekend I degassed, stabilized and added finings to my first two batches, Wednesday evening it was properly clear so I bottled it into some recycled screw top wine bottles and fitted my nice new Novatwist caps. Had a little taste of both and they seemed okay. One of the caps on the WGJ and Apple didn't seem to sit quite right so I stuck it in the fridge to drink. We had it last night, both the wife and I were really surprised at just how good it was and at only one day after bottling!

Going to stick with this production line for definite :thumb:

 

[Tau]

Well I'm genuinely impressed, until discovering this forum I only really made beer but having read a bit about this WOW lark I thought I should give it a go + put to use the 5 demijohns that I've acquired over the years.

So last weekend I degassed, stabilized and added finings to my first two batches, Wednesday evening it was properly clear so I bottled it into some recycled screw top wine bottles and fitted my nice new Novatwist caps. Had a little taste of both and they seemed okay. One of the caps on the WGJ and Apple didn't seem to sit quite right so I stuck it in the fridge to drink. We had it last night, both the wife and I were really surprised at just how good it was and at only one day after bottling!

Going to stick with this production line for definite :thumb:

You had a Wow moment :thumb:

 

[dublin12]

My Wows have been a lot closer to Rosé than my expensive kit wines so far.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

My Wows have been a lot closer to Rosé than my expensive kit wines so far.

All my red grape juice versions start out deep red then end up Rosé.