lowicz wine question

[wigwamheed]

Hey, I got some of the lowicz syrup with the intention of making a wine. I was just gonna use a litre of grape juice, a bottle of the syrup and 800 g of sugar and topping up with water for 5 litres. Would this work or would I need to use more juice?

 

[wigwamheed]

Utterly shameless bump!!

 

[weepete]

That'll be way too strong mate. For me half a bottle in a gallon is about right. The syrops are really high in sugar as well so double check your sugar content. What ABV are you looking for?

 

[weepete]

The bottle I've got says 65g of sugar per 100ml, so a bottle is about 286g sugar by my reconing. Then you'll need to add the sugar content in your grape juice too.

 

[wigwamheed]

I've gone for around 1.2 kg of sugar all in, done it now so will sharp find out if its too much lol

 

[oldbloke]

1.2kg is more or less what I aim for.

 

[Intelekt]

I put a whole bottle in my gallon, and it's coming on a treat :thumb:

 

[wigwamheed]

Its smells amazing so that's a good start I spose

 

[weepete]

No worries. I tried a full bottle of the syrop in 1 gallon ad it smelled great, but when the fermentation stopped it was not plesant, way too much syrop for my taste. I ended up splitting it into DJs and topping up with juice and going for a secondary fermetation which is just about done and tastes a whole lot better

 

[GeorgeSalt]

Hey, I got some of the lowicz syrup with the intention of making a wine. I was just gonna use a litre of grape juice, a bottle of the syrup and 800 g of sugar and topping up with water for 5 litres. Would this work or would I need to use more juice?

I have a red recipe planned but not started using the syrups.

1x 440 ml bottle of the blackcurrant syrup
4 litres RGJ
250 g sugar

That gives a total sugar of just shy of 1.2 kg. Or I may substitute some of the blackcurrant for a little strawberry (roughly 3:1 bc:st) whilst keeping the volume of cordial at 440 ml.

I don't personally see the point in using water in a recipe when RGJ and WGJ are relatively cheap.

 

[wigwamheed]

It was mostly because I only had one rgj in and wanted to get it on, I put some glycerine in to try and avoid it becoming too thin tasting, I guess time will tell.

Let us know how the all juice one comes out I would have done that if I'd had enough in stock