Recent content by Aussiewino

Hey Plonky, good to see another Aussie on here, and a fellow QLD'er too. How bout this weather? Stinking hot record temps one week,ridiculous monsoonal rain the next!?! Australia day was a wash out here on the Sunshine coast, it co-incides with my wifes b'day as well, so is usually a big...

Hey Chirata, I left it on the skins for five days. Because I had so much pulp in there it was hard to keep it punched down. I'll wait until I've sampled some in a years time, before making consideration for change. Thanks Plonklab. They sure are an amazing fruit, and incredible tree. Mine had...

Hey Chirata. I only just racked it 2 days ago, and of course had a bit of a sample. The flavour is fantastic, with loads more body than my 1st attempt. It a little bitter, seems like it will really need ageing. Unlike my 1st batch, and a mulberry batch I have done which were quite smooth and...

Thanks guys, good to know. I've got 30kg of crushed berries in strainer bags, 14 litres of water, and 5kg sugar. It's divided in 2 primary buckets. Was planning to pull the bags out at 3 days. Should have sufficient liquid to fill a 25 litre carboy, with plenty left over for f pacs. I made...

I'm making a Jaboticaba berry wine. I intended to add acid blend and pectinase initially, but it hadn't arrived yet. Unfortunately I couldn't wait for it due to time constraints. I'm expecting it to arrive today, will it be ok to add it at this point in time? Wine is 36 hrs old, yeast was...

Hi everyone, long time since my original post. The 1st batch of Jaboticaba wine turned out surprisingly OK, if a little thin. 12mths down the track, and the tree has fruited heavily again. So I've started another batch. 30kgs of smashed berries, divided into 6 straining bags. 5kgs of sugar...

A little more info. Turns out the cork is way more porous than I expected. I sealed over it with some blu tac, and wouldn't you know it, bubbles started gurgling through the airlock every 5 secs or so. I quickly uncorked it and put the SG reader in there, and resealed it. It's settled at...

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. I'll try and fill in a little more detail. I haven't added camden tabs at any time. It mid spring here, and being a subtropical area temps are warming up, but it's been very mild for this time of year. I have it currently in the bottom of my food pantry...

Hi everyone. Stumbled upon this forum whilst trying to find some info about wine making. Live in the sunshine coast hinterland, Queensland, Australia. Moved house earlier in the year, my new property has an abundance of fruit trees of all sorts. Just had a big harvest of Jaboticaba...