Strawberry Wine ^_^

[subzero]

Just thought to say i opened a bottle of this and it was well o--k, not fantastic need to be sweater imo.

But just thought to say, all that is left is the plum wine to try, if that's not to my taste thats it game over for my wine making, even the white wine kit wasnt to fantastic

But beer and TC are brill, hehe

[DRB]

Looking at other fresh fruit recipes the norm is about 3lb to a gallon,maybe that would have given it a better flavour.Why not try doing strawberry wine with tinned strawberries as i'm doing and at only 25p a 400g can (supermarket own brand) it is cheap as chips.
What wine kits were you doing,I make the beverdale and they always come out very good.

[lockwood1956]

The tinned strawberry will turn out much better than the beaverdale kit.........trust me


age it a year...it's awesome

regards
bob

[delboy]

The tinned strawberry will turn out much better than the beaverdale kit.........trust me


age it a year...it's awesome

regards
bob

How much tinned strawberries in a gallon, do you add an extra sugar, or better still what about a link to the recipe

[lockwood1956]

Okley dokley

here you go

http://www.winesathome.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=825

hope this helps
regards
bob

[lockwood1956]

I used double the strawberries on my last batch and it turned out great.

[delboy]

I used double the strawberries on my last batch and it turned out great.

Thanks for the link LW, i don't know if i've picked it up right but im thinking off mashing 5-6 cans of tescos strawberry in grape juice (gravity of juice 1042) which come in 402g can iirc.
150g of strawberries per can when drained, is that enough i've seen the figure of 3lb of fruit to the each gallon bandied about??

Dissolve a kilo of sugar in boiling water cool and chuck in on to the strawberry mush and then top up to 1 gallon.
Add 1 crushed campden tablet and mix in.

Let it stand overnight

next day throw in the pectolase
a 1/2 teaspoon of nutrient
a 1/2 teaspoon of tannin
some citric acid.

and some wine yeast.

[andyu]

If your making strawbeerry wine and leaving for a year. Do you need to use proper wine bottles and corks?? Anything else suffice.

[lockwood1956]

150g of strawberries per can when drained, is that enough i've seen the figure of 3lb of fruit to the each gallon bandied about??

Dissolve a kilo of sugar in boiling water cool and chuck in on to the strawberry mush and then top up to 1 gallon.
Add 1 crushed campden tablet and mix in.

Shoot for a starting gravity of 1.080 i think makes a nice wine, and its great aged a year

If your making strawbeerry wine and leaving for a year. Do you need to use proper wine bottles and corks?? Anything else suffice.

yes it needs to be either bottles (corked) or under airlock for all of that time. unless you have a different method for exluding O2 that is