Brewnight: Strawberry WOW

[Roddy]

#2 this evening

so
6L Lidl vitafit apple
6L Lidl RGJ
3 x 440ml Lowicz Strawberry
3kg Tate & Lyle
5l strong tea (5 bag)
5tsp pectolase dissolved in 1/2 warm water
4tsp youngs super wine yeast compound

and..
2l RGJ in FV
sugar in
kettleful of boiling water in (nice one chippy_tea) :mrgreen:
swirl under sugar dissolved
juice in
tea in
syrup in
top up with cold tap water to 25L
sprinkle on yeast
temp 25deg
SG 1.090
ABV when finished, ca. 13.5%

give me a nudge if anything doesn't make sense, I've had a few haha :drunk:

 

[Roddy]

This chap's down to 0.990 so racked it last night and had a wee taste - pretty nice so far :)

Racked onto 5 crushed campdens and added 2.5tsp youngs wine stopper, and gave it a bit of a mix. Will degas over the next couple of days with drill and wine whip, the add Kwik clear finings.

Darn... guess who needs to go to the HB shop at the weekend for finings... doh

 

[Roddy]

Pretty cloudy after a degass, finings going in tonight, see how long it takes to go crystal [emoji4]

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[Roddy]

Not long as it turns out, was perfectly clear a couple of days after finings went in [emoji16]

Bottled up tonight, and the stash under the stairs is looking healthy (or unhealthy) [emoji23]

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[Bigeck]

Party at Roddy's house. :thumb:

 

[Roddy]

PS, it was 1L of strong tea (not 5L) - wasn't able to edit my original post

 

[Flixonbrews]

PS, it was 1L of strong tea (not 5L) - wasn't able to edit my original post

Wouldn't hesitate to follow one of your recipes again. We just bottled about 40 pints of strawberry and lime turbo cider last night, came out about 5%. The batch before we added more sugar too, came out at 8%, but it was a bit too strong.

I'll divide the recipe down, and we'll do a demijohns-worth, so we can give it a try, as we have a spare demijohn at the moment.

 

[Roddy]

Here's a cheeky pour, a month or so down the line [emoji4]

https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqD9OOcGhwesxF8nGwEyQmg0cO7K

Happy with that

Oops.... that was for a TC, even I don't drink wine by the pint haha [emoji23]

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