Medieval
Medieval
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Hi All,
My first all fruit wine
17 pounds mixed berries
8 pounds blueberries
9 pounds of mixed berries (blackberry, strawberry, rasberry)
I'm trying to stretch this to 5 gallons but 17 pounds of fruit from many recipes doesn't seem to be enough (or is it) as some blueberry recipes from jack keller only used 2lb of blueberry per gallon.
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/request108.asp
I used two cheesecloth bags one with 8 pound blueberry other with the 9 pounds of mixed berry. 96oz apple juice and 64 oz concord grape no preservatives juice. Letting it sit in bucket for 24 hours with pectin enzym.
Thats what I have right now, it's somewhat based off of jack kellers mixed berry recipe here (except I used concord grape juice and less amount of apple juice so far)
Mixed Berry
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/request229.asp
He used some grapes and couple other berries so I replaced his grapes with concord juice.
The recipe calls for citric acid but I only have acid blend and because I can't measure PH I don't have any idea what the PH would be with these specific berries.
I have a couple questions that maybe the more expirenced with fruit wine.
1) How do you think this will taste and should I add some water or more juice to get 5 gallons.
2) Can I replace acid blend with citric acid without altering the other types of acids or should I just ommit the acid all together.
My first all fruit wine
17 pounds mixed berries
8 pounds blueberries
9 pounds of mixed berries (blackberry, strawberry, rasberry)
I'm trying to stretch this to 5 gallons but 17 pounds of fruit from many recipes doesn't seem to be enough (or is it) as some blueberry recipes from jack keller only used 2lb of blueberry per gallon.
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/request108.asp
I used two cheesecloth bags one with 8 pound blueberry other with the 9 pounds of mixed berry. 96oz apple juice and 64 oz concord grape no preservatives juice. Letting it sit in bucket for 24 hours with pectin enzym.
Thats what I have right now, it's somewhat based off of jack kellers mixed berry recipe here (except I used concord grape juice and less amount of apple juice so far)
Mixed Berry
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/request229.asp
He used some grapes and couple other berries so I replaced his grapes with concord juice.
The recipe calls for citric acid but I only have acid blend and because I can't measure PH I don't have any idea what the PH would be with these specific berries.
I have a couple questions that maybe the more expirenced with fruit wine.
1) How do you think this will taste and should I add some water or more juice to get 5 gallons.
2) Can I replace acid blend with citric acid without altering the other types of acids or should I just ommit the acid all together.