Cooling your must!!!

I use frozen fruit on most all my fruit wines due to the fact that I
wouldn't feed the fresh fruit availeable here to my worst enemy (They
stock newly arrived berries that are already molding on the shelves
here).



Most recipes say to thaw frozen fruit before you add sugar water that
you have boiled. Instead I leave the fruit frozen and it cools the
water considerably! Then I crush the thawed fruit with sanitized hands.
The hole mess is in my mesh bag so it's not a problem.



This works about the same way as Waldo's bag of ice cubes which I also use if the temp is still to high to add campden.



Pete

Now that is a really COOL idea....Thanks Pete!

Excellent idea Pete

Way to go!

Waldo deserves most of the credit as I thought it up after reading his ice baggy trick. I thought hhhmmmm...why not!



I just wish I could get nice fresh fruit like most of you have access
to. It seems that all people grow around here is sage weed and antelope!



Pete

thanks for the info!