Grapefruit WOW

[Roddy]

Put another wow on today...

6l Asda Red Grape
6l Asda Grapefruit
4kg sugar
pint of 5 tea bag tea
5 tsps pectolase
5 tsps youngs super wine yeast
Topped off to 23l with 4l hot water and the rest cold, to bring mixture to around 25deg

sg of 1.092
expect fg to be around 0.990 so approx 13.7% abv

will be interesting !

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[Chippy_Tea]

Like the heat source.

 

[Roddy]

haha yeh, the timer puts it on for an hour/off for an hour, keeps it at a pretty even 25deg

 

[Roddy]

pretty active now haha

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9214IswqPyMRUpvamZ2RXkzV0U/edit?usp=docslist_api

 

[Roddy]

down to 1.000 in 6 days... nice

 

[goodolpete]

Roddy,
have you had a sip when measuring the SG? With all that grapefruit,
how acidic is it?
Pete

 

[Roddy]

didn't taste too bad actually, quite a warming sensation after a sip or two ! I expected it to be a lot sharper, so looking good so far

 

[Toredan]

I've made a similar recipe recently with equal portions of Asda RGJ and pink grapefruit and found it quite nice, wife wanted it a bit sweeter but not bad at all. Will do again.

 

[Roddy]

hmm, down to 0.990 now so will leave it for a week then rack for clearing..

Might be a bit on the tart side for me so might think about sweetening...

Anyone have much experience of using a 'wine sweetener', my lhbs sells one

 

[LarryF]

pretty active now haha

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9214IswqPyMRUpvamZ2RXkzV0U/edit?usp=docslist_api

Love the footage Roddy, my FV is covered so I don't get to see the yeast kicking off like that, really interesting.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Reminds me of the first WOW i made.

 

[Roddy]

decided to sweeten a bit, so on advice from my lhbs, I added 300g of sugar dissolved in hot water, then cooled. Was to leave it for 24 hrs to let the sugar invert, and then stablise etc...

Watch this space

 

[Roddy]

Clearing pretty well, might bottle up this weekend :)

 

[Roddy]

sorted

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[Chippy_Tea]

I have never used Grapefruit in any of my juice wines, does it mellow during fermentation?

 

[Roddy]

Had a few glasses of it last night and you can def tell it's made with grapefruit, but a bit of sugar to sweeten when I racked it helped.

It's like a really dry rose, sharp but not overly.. my missus reckons it's the best tasting wow I've made so far (over the rgj/apple & rasp I did)

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I don't like grapefruit but glad to read it turned out well. :thumb: