Country fair Plumb

[lloyd]

I bought country fair plumb 2 cans(48oz) and added (96oz) frozen plumbs for a 5 gal batch of wine and it tastes terribly watery. Any one else had any experience with this brand from E.C. Krauss?

 

[djrockinsteve]

No but I believe you need alot more plums by weight. Fruits that are light flavor tasting are going to need more than 5 -6 pounds per gallon.

I'm presuming thats volume, how many pounds do you think it was?

 

[lloyd]

There concoction was very fluid in nature I probably had 3 pounds of pitted plumbs but they were small bush type and sour. A friend gave them to me asking for wine in return. But I would be ashamed to give them this wine I don't know if I can remake it and improve on it in any way.

 

[djrockinsteve]

You need more fruit per pound. Plum can be really good.

 

[Angie]

I made plum wine last year and didn't use enough fruit per gallon (about 20lbs for 6 gal). It is still in the carboy so I am now going to experiment. I just bought some pure prune juice and am going to try and reduce to make a stronger f-pack. Hopefully it will give more of that plummy taste. If not, I have some very sweet blueberry that I might try doing some trial blends and see if that gives it some more body

 

[djrockinsteve]

Wade has a recipe on here where he used 28 pounds of plums for a 6 gallon batch. Here's the link for next time.

http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3500