Brew night: Prosecco

[Roddy]

Is it best to let it ferment out completely then prime in to bottles? If so are you better to prime with sugar or carbonation tablets? (Never done a sparking wine)

that's how I did it, and batch primed with sugar... was my first first sparkling wine, and probably not my last, although won't make my next one quite as strong..

this one was 13% odd and blows my head off, one glass of that after a few regular drinks and it's lights out... would aim for around 10% abv next time !!

 

[bardude]

Thanks, I'm going to start this in a couple of days

 

[Mrcwcb89]

Hey Roddy

Have you touched any more of this ? Thinking of giving it a bash along with a colleague from work

Anything you would change to it now that you've done it

Cheers buddy

 

[Roddy]

Hey Roddy

Have you touched any more of this ? Thinking of giving it a bash along with a colleague from work

Anything you would change to it now that you've done it

Cheers buddy

yeh taste is good matey

would change the following thi

1. use white grape juice (for colour)
2. put less sugar in, aim for 10%

 

[Mrcwcb89]

Excellent [emoji106]

Did it clear up okay just the same way we do our ciders ? You just used the exact same technique didn't you for making it ?

 

[Roddy]

yeh that's right, took a little longer to clear in the bottle, maybe an extra week, but turned out crystal 😃

 

[cheapbrew]

Did you have any sediment in the bottles at all Roddy?

 

[Roddy]

Did you have any sediment in the bottles at all Roddy?

sure did mate, a bit like turbo cider...

I bottled in 500ml pet bottles, wouldn't have worked so well in bigger bottles

 

[mereside]

sorry for late reply i sterilized my hydrometer tube and it was too hot and ended up waffer thin lol, reading now is 0.992 atb wayne

 

[TomB]

Well Roddy i fear you may have done a very bad thing posting this recipe, I have taken the plunge

 

[Roddy]

haha get in there Tom 😃

 

[Mrcwcb89]

What kind of bottles would people recommend if I was going for a proper prosecco feel ! Looking for corks and cages I think [emoji848]

 

[Mrcwcb89]

Do you think I Could I use wine bottles and cork and cage them

 

[cheapbrew]

Looch used champagne corks n cages back in this thread Mrc and as I said somewhere before for prosecco it should really be WGj if you can find it.

 

[TomB]

As per my earlier post, I have taken the plunge and done a DJ full of this stuff - it's bubbling away nicely. Can I Just check that I have got the process right......wait for it to ferment out or down to 0.0990, rack it into another DJ, wait for it to clear, then bottle it (in something quite substantial!) priming it with about 16g per litre????

 

[Roddy]

I didn't wait for it to clear, just racked, batch primed and bottled all at once

 

[Looch]

What kind of bottles would people recommend if I was going for a proper prosecco feel ! Looking for corks and cages I think [emoji848]

Yep - got them from Amazon. Look lush, problem is mine haven't primed :sulk:

 

[TomB]

Roddy do i have the priming rate about right 16g per litre sounds a lot!? Thank you for all your help on this one by the way!

 

[Roddy]

Roddy do i have the priming rate about right 16g per litre sounds a lot!? Thank you for all your help on this one by the way!

yes mate, I used 300g for about 20L (made a cock of racking so lost a bit of vol), so about 15g per l

sounds like a lot indeed but mine open with a reasonable tssss and a a cm of bubbly head when poured which dissapate like regular fizz and remain in the glass until supped 😃

let me know how yours turn out, tempted to do another now haha

 

[mereside]

I managed to get this bottled up now, how long does it take to carb up? atb wayne