Sparkling wine pressures

zippy40 · Nov 20, 2017

Hi All

Havent posted in a while as I have been drinking all the brews lol.

I am now brewing for christmas! I have a home made keezer with three lovely ex pub taps. As a little experiment I decided to keg 5 gallon of a pinot grigio kit to try and get a prosecco type drink. Well it worked a treat. The wine is beautifully maturing but more fruity than a true prosecco. My only issue is its a little flat. Anyone know what pressure I should set my co2 regulator to in order to up the fizz

Ta zippy

tonyhibbett · Nov 21, 2017

40 psi is typical for carbonated wine, but the gas needs to be injected, otherwise you just get top pressure.

zippy40 · Nov 21, 2017

Cheers many thanks for this.

I had the reg set for 20 so way off mark lo@.

Bernie · Nov 21, 2017

zippy40 said:
Hi All

Havent posted in a while as I have been drinking all the brews lol.

I am now brewing for christmas! I have a home made keezer with three lovely ex pub taps. As a little experiment I decided to keg 5 gallon of a pinot grigio kit to try and get a prosecco type drink. Well it worked a treat. The wine is beautifully maturing but more fruity than a true prosecco. My only issue is its a little flat. Anyone know what pressure I should set my co2 regulator to in order to up the fizz

Ta zippy

There different degrees of fizz (at least in Italy). Frizzante between 1 and 2.5 atms while spumante is above 3 atms.
Prosecco is actually defined by the type of grape used, glera. Pinot grigio is used amongst other grapes to produce spumante near Asti.

zippy40 · Nov 21, 2017

Thanks for that bernie. I know that prosecco uses glera but couldnt find any kits with this grape so plumped for pinot g instead.

It has turned out very well imho but alot fruitier than proper prosecco.

Do you know of any kits that are based on glera grapes?

Cheers
Zippy

tonyhibbett · Nov 22, 2017

There was a variety of grape called prosecco, the name of which was changed to glera, to protect the regional wine name. Prosecco wine may also contain other varieties, including pinot grigio and chardonnay. Glera makes an undistinguished, slightly bitter still wine, so you could use a basic generic cheap white wine kit and add grapefruit juice to get something similar.

zippy40 · Nov 22, 2017

tonyhibbett said:
There was a variety of grape called prosecco, the name of which was changed to glera, to protect the regional wine name. Prosecco wine may also contain other varieties, including pinot grigio and chardonnay. Glera makes an undistinguished, slightly bitter still wine, so you could use a basic generic cheap white wine kit and add grapefruit juice to get something similar.

Thanks great idea. Will give it a.try :thumb:

Bernie · Nov 24, 2017

tonyhibbett said:
so you could use a basic generic cheap white wine kit and add grapefruit juice to get something similar.

Grapefruit juice?

tonyhibbett · Nov 24, 2017

To add a touch of bitterness. Works well with the Winebuddy sauvignon blanc, which is otherwise somewhat bland.

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