Glycerine - How to add body and mouth-feel to wine.

[Chippy_Tea]

Use Glycerine in your wine to give it more body. Glycerine increases the wine`s mouth-feel giving it a fuller more pleasant texture. Glycerine also smooths over some of the harsh characteristics that are prevalent in most younger wines. It is a colourless, odourless, viscous syrup that has little noticeable flavour except for a slight sweetness.

 

[yesumission]

Im new to home brewing I'm making my first 30 bottle pinot grigio kit. It's been fermenting for 2 days. At what point do you add it and how much would you, use on 23 litres

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Welcome to the forum :

You dont need to add it to your kit its used when making supermarket juice wines - http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=49462






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[AdrianTrace]

This one works out somewhat cheaper - I still have one kicking around from my previous house wine brewing kit. I'll have to pick up a fresh one, I think.

 

[SmokeyRobinson]

I have found that the addition of a handful of raisins or sultanas adds to the mouth feel and also improves the body of a wine. Raisins for red/rose wine as they are made from red grapes and sultanas for white as they are made from white grapes.

Mark

 

[ScottE75]

I'm making Pineapple wine from shop bought juice (100% pure, not concentrate). When would I add it?

Is this the same thing? http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008S9KGKO/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

Thanks in advance!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

That is a litre and it only has a 9 month shelf life as you only add 1 teaspoon to a gallon it may be false economy, a lot of members use this - http://www.boots.com/en/Value-Health-Glycerin-B-P-200ml_852418/

Value Health Glycerin B.P - 200ml

£1.39

 

[Cqr]

I use the boots one for wine and e cigarette juice
Good quality

 

[ElChemist]

I use classikool stuff for E Liquids. Absolutely brilliant quality, but given the small volumes used, probably overkill...

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

I swear by glycerine! I know a lot people say it does nothing but I disagree. Have to be careful though because it has laxative properties!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I used to use it all the time in 2015 when i posted this i stopped after we ran out and i didn't use it on a batch and we couldn't tell the difference.

We found the same with citric acid.

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

I used a tbsp per gallon in mine and it made a massive difference. It rounded out all the harshness and made it taste like it had been aged for way longer. You need to leave it a couple of days though to infuse with the brew, as you would when back-sweetening. Citric acid is different - as I learned from JCR, too little of it causes a really strong, powerful off flavour that takes some mellowing out (perhaps glycerine would help here?) Of course some ingredients have some citric acid in them naturally so you don't need to add so much

At the end of the day it depends what problem you're trying to fix and how much you use - every brew is different and there's a lot of variables.

I had no idea you could get it from Boots for way cheaper than the supermarket. I was paying £1 for 30ml!

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

I think this is a really helpful video. This chap knows what he's on about IMHO

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I think this is a really helpful video. This chap knows what he's on about IMHO

I agree, he says to use it if you want to improve your wine and talks about body and mouth feel, maybe as we were already using 100% grape juice we were already getting the mouth feel and body or maybe its that i am an old git and my taste buds have had better days.

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

he says to use it if you want to improve your wine and talks about body and mouth feel

Yep, also toning down harsh flavours.

Maybe your wine was perfect and didn't need improving!

He puts it in his airlock as well (as per a different video I think). Could get expensive for me if I do that