Fast drinking wine (read only please)

[AAASTINKIE]

OK here's how I make my fast drinking wine, drink this while the good stuff takes it's time, actually I think this is the good stuff!!


3 gallons Welches 100% concord juice


1 qt. organic pear juice (optional)


2 qts. organic apple juice (optional, I just wanted the glass jug)


2gallons water boiled with 10lbs. sugar, then cooled off (night before)


yeast nutrient and yeast energizer per instructions


yeast good for 18% alcohol


extra welches for topping up


sorbate and campden for stablizing


superclear for fining

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[AAASTINKIE]

I'm having problems posting here at work, bear with me.


Boil the water, 2 gallons with the 10lbs. of sugar, the night before so it can cool for the next day, use SS pot with lid, keep lid on till ready to use.

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[AAASTINKIE]

mix the juice with sugar water, I used the apple juice just to get rid of it, you will need 2 qts. more water to get to 6 gallons. Dip the juice bottles in campden solution before opening to sanitize.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

I used my newfound knowledge to test for acid and put 5 TBS. acid blend in but wound up with a little too much with a TA of .75 , the batches in the past didn't hhave any acid blend and were just fine, but I thought I might store some of the batch to age and if I understand correctly having more acid helps to preserve wine.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

Yeast, I went with the Lavin 1116, good for 18% alcohol, I had a starting SG of 1.110 PA of 14.9

 

[AAASTINKIE]

Mix it all up, I warmed the sugar water a tad to give me a starting temp of 75 degree's, follow the yeast dirrections and pitch.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

Now this is how a wine should ferment, I had to change the airlock when
I came home from work this morning, it was full of juice and just
boiling, I had to change it again in 1/2 hour and put one on with no
water in it, now it is 2pm and I have one with campden solution on
again, just boiling away.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

May 2, racked off lee's, back into primary pail, temp 72, SG .999

 

[AAASTINKIE]

Stabilized and fined my Welche's today. SG .995 This is what CO2 foam looks like!! 6 campden tablets, 3 teaspoons sorbate, stir 2 minutes, wait 15 minutes, repeat twice (total of 3 times), then add superclear to fine.

This is going to be a fine rose' wine in a week..lol

I try to top up to keep everyone happy, I just had to use a little distilled water.

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[AAASTINKIE]

Bottled my Welche's today 28 days, ready to drink, didn't sweeten this
time, a nice strong, 15.2% ABV, rose' wine, 30 1/2 bottles, starting SG
1.110 final .992 SG. I was in a hurry so no pictures but I'll get some
next week when I put shrink caps on.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

OH..OH wine is a little cloudy...this is what happens when you
start changing recipe and you don't know what you are doing...I think
it must be the apple juice maybe cause of no pectin enzyme??

Good thing it's just "Fast drinking wine"!!

Nice corks!

 

[Hippie]

Stinkie, this is also the kind of thing to expect when we rush the wine into the bottle. Reading a good winemaking book and having one handy at must preparation will also help. You idea of a pectin haze is probably right if you used apple juice and no pectic enzyme. There is no need to rush the wine into bottles.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

I needed the carboy for beer.

 

[Hippie]

Oh brother...

 

[Maui Joe]

Stinkie,


Shut the light, then drink the wine...no one will know!

 

[AAASTINKIE]

I'm drinking some of my fastdrinkingwine (can I get corks with that
name on it?) from my first batch and it's not understandable (is that a
word?) that a wine could be so good...lol

 

[PolishWineP]

Stinkie!


You been hitting the Red Bull to hard again?

Maybe making beer will distract you from wine for an extra day or 2 so it gets more time before you bottle.

 

[MedPretzel]

It's the "homebrew" advantage. Christmas 2003 was one of the first where my whole family was wasted by 7 p.m.





Guess I made the starting S.G. a little too high.

P.S. That was before I got my hydrometer.

 

[AAASTINKIE]

I opened a bottle of my fresh batch of fastdrinkinwine tonight and it's
pretty good as long as you mix 1 part wine to 3 parts juice...lol (it's
very strong tasting at 15% alcohol)

 

[Hippie]

Frank, next time start the must at 11% PA. You will like it lots better.