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Roddy

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Evening all.. so we have

15L Lidl red grape juice
3 x 440ml lowicz cherry
2kg tate & lyle table sugar
5tsp pectolase
30g youngs French oak chips

Bung in 2L juice
Bung in sugar
A kettle full of boiling water
Mix up sugar to dissolve
Bung in rest of juice
Bung5 in oak chips
Bung in pectolase dissolved in cup of warm water
Top up to 25L with cold tap water
Stir well
Temp 24 degrees
SG 1.090
Est abv 13.11% (when fermented out to 1.000)

Sprinkle on 5tsp youngs super wine yeast compound

Chuck in cupboard... sorted 😀

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Jeez you are churning through these :lol:

Are you experimenting with the oak /flavorings a bit more now ?
 
Jeez you are churning through these [emoji38]

Are you experimenting with the oak /flavorings a bit more now ?
A bit, just with the red ones so far 😀

Although the kits I started on originally had that stuff in then too I suppose.

Acid test would be to make a pretend red without the chips... might try that at some stage too 😁

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If we made a wine with these tea bags (say a short life expectancy Wow) what ingredients could we leave out ?
 
This is an old recipe from the forum.


Box (20) Fruit 'Tea Bags'

2 litres Grape Juice

2lbs sugar (or thereabouts)

1tsp Citric Acid

1/2tsp Grape Tannin

GP Yeast & Nutrient

Use 1 box Twinings Cranberry, Raspberry & Elderflower bags and Sainsbury's 100% Pure Pressed Red Grape Juice (not from concentrate, no preservatives) but you could use any fruit infusions bags and red or white grape juice as appropriate.

Infuse the bags for 30 minutes in 2 pints boiling water.

Boil 2lbs sugar (or thereabouts) in 1 pint water.

Wring the bags out as best you can without splitting them and pour infusion liquor and sugar syrup into a bucket, add grape juice, allow to cool, add Citric, Tannin, Nutrient and Yeast and let it rip.

After the initial whoosh has subsided, pour into a DJ and make up to 1 gallon.

Dead easy, and I cost that at around £3.50 per gallon or 60p a bottle at around 13% ABV.
 
Boom... bottling afternoon...

Bit like a dark rose, nice though 😀

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15L Lidl red grape juice
3 x 440ml lowicz cherry
2kg tate & lyle table sugar
5tsp pectolase
30g youngs French oak chips

This looks like a nice one. Just trying to work out quantities for a 4.5L batch.
How much sugar in one of the Lowicz syrups? There is a Polish shop down the road that sells these, so might pop in on way home from work. Do you think a whole 440ml bottle in a 4.5L brew would be too much cherry?

Cheers.
 
Might be alright with one but it might be a bit sickly, not tried it in a small batch before

1 x 440ml bottle has about 370g of sugar in it 😯 (yes I know!)

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Nice colour mate, do you think the oak chips have made a difference to the taste ?


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Not that I could really tell mate, not sure that I would bother again

The one I did before with rgj/elderberries was better by a mile

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I'd bought some as going to try this one. Would you do owt differently with the recipe ? Assume you left the chips in through ferm ?


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I'd bought some as going to try this one. Would you do owt differently with the recipe ? Assume you left the chips in through ferm ?


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Nah, wouldn't change the recipe and just left the chips (more like sawdust haha) in the whole time

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