Has anyone ever tried making a nasturtium wine? I'm thinking about trying it when the flowers start coming through again and was wondering if anyone knew if it was worth it/had a recipe I could use. If not I'll probably end up following a rose petal wine recipe and just use nasturtium instead of rose.
Nasturtium Wine?
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RobWalker
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Not too much help, but Jack Keller (the go-to weird wine recipe guy) seems to say it's okay to do;
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/flowers.asp
maybe find something similar to a nasturtium and go from there?
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/flowers.asp
maybe find something similar to a nasturtium and go from there?
RobWalker said:
Cheers for the link, definitely a few others I want to try off the list. The problem for flower wines is (obviously) nothing is in flower at the moment, Suppose I'll just have to be patient and brew something else for now
I made a marigold and nasturtium flower wine a few years ago.
It was OK, the main problem being getting enough flowers- ideally you don't want ones that have gone "over" too far, and picking over the marigolds was a pain.
Personally I thought it was a bit much hassle for the end result, so only made it once. I used a recipe based one from CJ Barry book, but you could follow any flower-wine recipe. You definitely need tanin and either citrus zest or something else for acidity. Also, I think you need to make sure it ferments slowly or else you lose the aromatics in the bubbles.
It was OK, the main problem being getting enough flowers- ideally you don't want ones that have gone "over" too far, and picking over the marigolds was a pain.
Personally I thought it was a bit much hassle for the end result, so only made it once. I used a recipe based one from CJ Barry book, but you could follow any flower-wine recipe. You definitely need tanin and either citrus zest or something else for acidity. Also, I think you need to make sure it ferments slowly or else you lose the aromatics in the bubbles.
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Can you make a wine out of the leaves?
homebreweddave said:
Don't see why not, I found another wine recipe for nasturtium wine a while back (can't find it atm) which used the leaves, called for something like 500g of nasturtium, sadly I couldn't get that much off of my plants, but I'm wondering if you could use the stalks at which point 500g should be fairly easy to get, but sadly it's another year before I can find out.
