Well since it was asked, and I'm really bad at taking notes Let's put it here...
Decided on a strawberry skeeter pee - but no, didn't have a strawberry wine going in the primaries... We'll report as we go...
Here's how I did it - basically followed the SkeeterPee recipe; Except for the 2nd and 3rd bottle of Realemon... And ran it up to 1.085 initial SG - took about 15 cups of sugar.
2nd bottle - I went over to safeway; grabbed 4 of the 425ml "frozen strawberries in syrup" (now in little tubs instead of the tetra/milk containers like it used to be) put them in about 6 cups of water, boiled down to about 1/2, used a strainer to remove the strawberries (they still made an ok ice cream topping ).
Did add pectic enzyme per instructions (think it was 2.5tsp?)
Also used 3/4tsp of Ascorbic acid (as I really like the color - and would like it to stay roughly where it is).
Started with a starter culture of Lalvin EC-1118; that I had started for the original skeeter pee - started on saturday.
Plan is to make another must of frozen strawberries for the 3rd "bottle" addition + back sweetening...
No guarantees - I'm a noob, this is my first time messing with a recipe - however; I can tell ya the strawberry is fermenting much faster for me than the regular SP recipe right now (I added a heater to that primary to bring it up to 78F, and it's still not bubbling even close to the strawberry at 72ish)
Decided on a strawberry skeeter pee - but no, didn't have a strawberry wine going in the primaries... We'll report as we go...
Here's how I did it - basically followed the SkeeterPee recipe; Except for the 2nd and 3rd bottle of Realemon... And ran it up to 1.085 initial SG - took about 15 cups of sugar.
2nd bottle - I went over to safeway; grabbed 4 of the 425ml "frozen strawberries in syrup" (now in little tubs instead of the tetra/milk containers like it used to be) put them in about 6 cups of water, boiled down to about 1/2, used a strainer to remove the strawberries (they still made an ok ice cream topping ).
Did add pectic enzyme per instructions (think it was 2.5tsp?)
Also used 3/4tsp of Ascorbic acid (as I really like the color - and would like it to stay roughly where it is).
Started with a starter culture of Lalvin EC-1118; that I had started for the original skeeter pee - started on saturday.
Plan is to make another must of frozen strawberries for the 3rd "bottle" addition + back sweetening...
No guarantees - I'm a noob, this is my first time messing with a recipe - however; I can tell ya the strawberry is fermenting much faster for me than the regular SP recipe right now (I added a heater to that primary to bring it up to 78F, and it's still not bubbling even close to the strawberry at 72ish)