The Rhubarb Wine

[montanaWineGuy]

I bought nearly 30lbs of Rhubarb last week and the 1st 1/2 is now in the Carboy fermenting like there's no tomorrow. The one on the right is 1/2 Rhubarb + 1/2 Huckleberry, and its been going strong now for 3+ weeks. 2 more 6 gallon carboys are due to arrive in a day of so.

 

[BernardSmith]

Rhubarb can make a delicious wine

 

[geek]

I've been wondering how good is this wine, wish I could buy a bottle somewhere locally.
Is the white one rhubarb alone? I thought it is like a pink color.

 

[montanaWineGuy]

I've been wondering how good is this wine, wish I could buy a bottle somewhere locally.
Is the white one rhubarb alone? I thought it is like a pink color.

My understanding is there are different species of Rhubarb. According to my wine book, it is preferable to use the Rhubarb with reddish stalks, but that is not available to me, which may account for the lighter color.

 

[montanaWineGuy]

Rhubarb can make a delicious wine

I do hope so.

 

[geek]

RJS has a cheapo kit for this type of wine, thought about making it but haven't seen many reviews on it.

 

[montanaWineGuy]

RJS has a cheapo kit for this type of wine, thought about making it but haven't seen many reviews on it.

I do my wine from scratch. Learning as I go, getting equip and chems as I learn.

 

[geek]

I do my wine from scratch. Learning as I go, getting equip and chems as I learn.

Good that you have access to Rhubarb.

 

[GreginND]

Picking up 300 pounds of rhubarb tomorrow to add to my 400 pounds already frozen. Now looking for more freezer space and bigger tanks!

 

[geek]

Can you describe the taste of this wine?

 

[montanaWineGuy]

Picking up 300 pounds of rhubarb tomorrow to add to my 400 pounds already frozen. Now looking for more freezer space and bigger tanks!

I'd like t see what 300lbs of rhubarb looks like. Picture?

 

[GreginND]

Well, here's us processing about 180 pounds using a food processor slicing blade. The pile on the table is about 1/5 of the total.

 

[montanaWineGuy]

Now that is a lot of Rhubarb. No doubt that juicer is worth every penny. Took me an hour+ to cut up my 15lbs and I have a food slicer, that I bought to help make beef jerky. Helps with fruit and veggies, but a juicer is the way to go with bulk processing.

 

[fabrictodyefor]

I had a good chuckle about the 300 lbs of rhubarb and getting 400 more!!! This is one of my favorites....First year 25 lbs of rhubarb with 2.5 lbs raspberries, last year 40 lbs rhubarb and 4 lbs raspberries and yesterday I took out 75 lbs of rhubarb and will add 7.5 lbs raspberries. All have been with the "redder" rhubarb, but my sis has access to some of the greener rhubarb, (I now have 40 lbs of that in the freezer) so I'll be making a second batch and am curious if there will be a difference. I know the raspberries help it to have a light blush color. I've had to back sweeten both batches a touch. The flavor is "light", strong on the rhubarb at first with a nice sweet raspberry at the end. It is almost everyone's favorite, that's why I've been begging everyone I know for more and more rhubarb!

 

[montanaWineGuy]

I'm optimistic about Rhubarb. If this comes out good, next year, I'm planting. I'm in an ideal zone for rhubarb, and I've a good spot with good soil to make this happen.

 

[kevinlfifer]

I have never had (or even thought of) rhubarb wine. I have a rhubarb patch. 20lbs or so would be easy.

Care to share a recipe?

 

[montanaWineGuy]

For recipes I just grab something off the internet.

In my beginner book the author made wine from onions. Eeack!

I suppose one can make wine from damn near anything, pork, beef, noodles, laundry lint....

 

[michael-s]

What have you used in combination with rhubarb, with rhubarb being the main ingredient, to make wine that you like and would do again.

What fruit, as a secondary ingredient, have you added with rhubarb to make wine.

Seems like it takes about 17 lbs. of rhubarb to make a 5 gallon batch, or less if you add some other fruit.

What do you use and how much in lbs. of each ingredient. I don't need a full recipe or instructions but just would like to know your favorite
combination that in your opinion makes a rhubarb wine you would make again and again.

Thank you in advance................ Michael.

 

[Northerngal]

I like the sounds of the raspberry-rhubarb. Sounds like 1/10th of the wright of the rhubarb was in raspberries....any further tips would be great!!!

 

[GreginND]

Here's 350 pounds of rhubarb - it took us about 4 hours to chop it all and put it away in the freezer. I didn't have room for more large 15 gal barrels so we had to bag a lot of it to fit it in the freezers. In total I have a bit over 600 pounds which should make 160-180 gal of wine.