What is the best way to lower ABV without losing body?

[abefroman]

What is the best way to lower ABV without losing body?

I know I can add water in the beginning or at the end, but then I'd be losing body.

TIA

 

[cedarswamp]

Blend with a lower ABV batch.

 

[abefroman]

Blend with a lower ABV batch.

I don't have one

 

[jamesngalveston]

agree with cedarswamp, a lower abv batch, are lower abv wine.

 

[abefroman]

agree with cedarswamp, a lower abv batch, are lower abv wine.

;-)good idea but I don't have one to blend it with.

 

[Deezil]

If its not a kit, save back some juice - sulfite it, pretty heavy; put your whole post-fermentation dosage of k-meta into this juice.

It takes some math. You want to save enough juice, that it doesnt put your ABV under 10%, and you want to use ALL the juice you save.

When it's fermented from what its at, to where its going <1.000
Stabilize with a dash of k-meta + whole dose of sorbate; wait a week
Then add your heavy-sulfited juice.

This will lower your ABV, increase the flavor, save the body, and still be true to its own profile.

 

[abefroman]

If its not a kit, save back some juice - sulfite it, pretty heavy; put your whole post-fermentation dosage of k-meta into this juice.

It takes some math. You want to save enough juice, that it doesnt put your ABV under 10%, and you want to use ALL the juice you save.

When it's fermented from what its at, to where its going <1.000
Stabilize with a dash of k-meta + whole dose of sorbate; wait a week
Then add your heavy-sulfited juice.

This will lower your ABV, increase the flavor, save the body, and still be true to its own profile.

Great idea! But I'm going to make it sparkling by adding sugar later, so can't add sorbate.

 

[cedarswamp]

I don't have one

Well get busy...resistance is futile.

 

[Deezil]

Great idea! But I'm going to make it sparkling by adding sugar later, so can't add sorbate.

Sparkling wines tend to "shine" due to the relationship between the acidity, sweetness and carbonation.. Body doesnt have a whole lot to do with it.. It's a factor, of course, but not like in still wines

Kinda gotta pick something to sacrifice.. If its sparkling wine, it's going to be the Body at the altar.

 

[abefroman]

Sparkling wines tend to "shine" due to the relationship between the acidity, sweetness and carbonation.. Body doesnt have a whole lot to do with it.. It's a factor, of course, but not like in still wines

Kinda gotta pick something to sacrifice.. If its sparkling wine, it's going to be the Body at the altar.

THX!