Hello,
I recently moved to a small holding which has 2 orchards of pears, apples & damson. Different varieties. Never brewed wine/cider before, but couldn't leave the masses of fruit to just the wildlife. So, borrowing a pulper & a press I have begun extracting the juice from the fruit, which has then been frozen. There is enough equipment & chemical ingredients to make a 25 litre batch of wine to start with, and this is the part I am calling for HELP from. I cannot find any recipes that will tell me what quantities of home pressed juice to ratio of other ingredients I need. Sorry if this sounds such a simple thing to find out. Being a tech dinosaur hasn't helped, as the same sites keep coming up, and my mind has just been boggled with so much info that i struggled to understand. Basically then, please can anyone give me a step by step, quantities needed to turn all this juice into wine? I need to get it as right as possible on this my first years harvest. If there are recipes posted on your forums, forgive me as this is the first site i have joined regarding brewing, and have been unable till today to ask my first question, on my first post. Thank you for any help anybody can give me, I ask that you don't blind me by science or ask the names of the various fruit varieties i have. Till now i have been a complete carnivore, where fruit & veg only make an appearance in my house when guests are coming! Any answers to my question will be picked up when I next use my laptop, as my phone is nearly as old as me, with tech so out of date I don't think it can carry that as a description. Once again Thank You.
I recently moved to a small holding which has 2 orchards of pears, apples & damson. Different varieties. Never brewed wine/cider before, but couldn't leave the masses of fruit to just the wildlife. So, borrowing a pulper & a press I have begun extracting the juice from the fruit, which has then been frozen. There is enough equipment & chemical ingredients to make a 25 litre batch of wine to start with, and this is the part I am calling for HELP from. I cannot find any recipes that will tell me what quantities of home pressed juice to ratio of other ingredients I need. Sorry if this sounds such a simple thing to find out. Being a tech dinosaur hasn't helped, as the same sites keep coming up, and my mind has just been boggled with so much info that i struggled to understand. Basically then, please can anyone give me a step by step, quantities needed to turn all this juice into wine? I need to get it as right as possible on this my first years harvest. If there are recipes posted on your forums, forgive me as this is the first site i have joined regarding brewing, and have been unable till today to ask my first question, on my first post. Thank you for any help anybody can give me, I ask that you don't blind me by science or ask the names of the various fruit varieties i have. Till now i have been a complete carnivore, where fruit & veg only make an appearance in my house when guests are coming! Any answers to my question will be picked up when I next use my laptop, as my phone is nearly as old as me, with tech so out of date I don't think it can carry that as a description. Once again Thank You.