First Wow wine brew.

Stumpy1 · Nov 24, 2018

In fact this will be my first ever dabble into wine making, I now have the equipment and I have purchased the yeast etc, so it’s time to get stuck in.

Looking through the various pages there are so many exotic recipes using different fruit juices I’m not sure which one to try.

I’m hoping to make 2 Demi johns of WOW wine, so which recipe is your “go to” recipe for a good brew, which is the recipe that you would recommend for my first brew?

All input would be greatly appreciated

Stumpy

Slid · Nov 24, 2018

1x Grape juice and 1xApple Juice for a gallon is the go-to. Best Quality you can get - i.e. all juice.

Stumpy1 · Nov 24, 2018

Slid said:
1x Grape juice and 1xApple Juice for a gallon is the go-to. Best Quality you can get - i.e. all juice.

Thanks, is the red grape juice the best to get?

Slid · Nov 24, 2018

It is a long time since I saw white grape juice - so that is why I suggested red! Any grape juice is a good start and apple goes well with grape, by empirical evidence only, I don't know why they go well together, they just seem to.

Stumpy1 · Nov 24, 2018

Slid said:
It is a long time since I saw white grape juice - so that is why I suggested red! Any grape juice is a good start and apple goes well with grape, by empirical evidence only, I don't know why they go well together, they just seem to.

Brilliant they are on my shopping list tomorrow, thanks again.

Chippy_Tea · Nov 25, 2018

My go to wine is a litre of red grape juice and 1.5 litre of apple juice as below -

Rose wine

1 litre Red grape juice.

1.5 litre Apple Juice.

750g Sugar.

1 tsp Tannin or a mug of very strong black tea. (3 bags stirred every couple of minutes as you put the rest of the ingredients together)

1 tsp Yeast (i use youngs super wine yeast compound)

1 tsp Yeast Nutrient.

1 tsp Pectolase.

1 tsp Glycerine. (optional)

1 tsp citric acid or juice of one lemon. (optional)

Chippy_Tea · Nov 25, 2018

If you haven't seen it look at this - http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=49462

Stumpy1 · Nov 25, 2018

Thank you chippy, the ingredients have been purchased, just about to watch the video again, then wish me luck I’m going in.

Chippy_Tea · Nov 25, 2018

Keep us posted.

Stumpy1 · Nov 25, 2018

Just a quick question, when it says top upafter racking into the second demijohn, do you top up with water and to what level?

Cheers.

Chippy_Tea · Nov 26, 2018

Yes plain water and to the base of the neck.

You can use juice but you risk fermentation starting again even if you do use stabiliser.

Stumpy1 · Dec 15, 2018

I’m pleased to announce that batch number 1 was a great success, thanks guys. Now time to experiment.

Chippy_Tea · Dec 15, 2018

Glad it turned out well, keep us posted.

Frogbrew · Dec 16, 2018

Nice one, you'll be hooked now. athumb..

Stumpy1 · Dec 16, 2018

I drank a bottle last night and I was pleasantly impressed.

Does anyone have another tried and tested recipe that could give a try.

Cheers

Chippy_Tea · Dec 16, 2018

Here is a recipe only version of the full thread below - https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/...d-wurzels-orange-wine-wow-recipes-only.33606/

Full version here - http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=49462

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Scaggs · Dec 19, 2018

My fruit juice wine is so popular with the wife and her friends I decided to start another batch off with Lidl apple and carrot Juice at the weekend. I soon realised I'd run out of wine yeast so used some spare beer yeast I had hanging around from an extract kit. It's fermenting nicely in the demijohn but will this spoil the taste?

Chippy_Tea · Dec 19, 2018

The quote below explains why we don't use bread yeast, the full article is worth a read - https://blog.eckraus.com/wine-making-bread-baking-yeast

This brings us back to the bread yeast. Most bread yeast will ferment alcohol up to about 8% with ease, but when trying to produce alcohol beyond this level, the bread yeast begin to struggle, very often stopping around 9% or 10%. This is short of what we’d like to obtain for almost any wine.

Even more importantly, bread yeast produce alcohol that is plagued with a lot of off-flavors. The bread yeast becomes so stressed and has to work so hard that off-flavored enzymes and fatty acids are produced along with the alcohol.

Another reason making wine with bread yeast is not a good idea is that bread yeast do not clear out very readily or settle very firmly, either. They typically will form a low layer of hazy wine in the bottom of the fermenter that will never completely clear out.

There are several other issues with using bread yeast to make your wine, but these are the big ones: the alcohol, the clearing, and the flavor.

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