plum wine

[falafael]

plum wine

Postby falafael on Sun Apr 26, 2009 1:39 pm
just been to car boot and picked up 6lbs of plums for £2!
So gonna be making plum wine, heres the ingriedents!

6 Ibs plums
0.5 pint red grape juice concentrate
2.8 ilb sugar
.5 tsp tannin
1 campden tablet
1 tsp citric acid
1 nutrient tablet
2 tsp pectolase
yeast

Wash plums and pour 2 quarts boilin water, when cool, mash and remove stones. Stir in the campden tablets, acid, tannin and pectolase, cover and leave in a warm place.
Next day stir in the grape juice, sugar, nutrient and yeast and ferment on the pulp for 7 days.

Strain and top up with cold water and ferment as usual!

Made this 2 days ago and its fermenting nicely!!

 

[trunky]

I have made plum wine in the past, it's not on my list for doing again :sick: Rhubarb is a close second in the list of ingredients that should never go in wine.

 

[Moley]

I have made plum wine in the past, it's not on my list for doing again :sick:
Rhubarb is a close second in the list of ingredients that should never go in wine.

You've got to be careful with rhubarb, pick it young, chop into smallish chunks and pour sugar over the dry fruit, don't boil it like you would other fruits. IIRC it's something to do with oxalic acid? Made it before, in no hurry to do it again.

I would have to disagree about plums though, but they do need plenty of pectolase, and as falafael has said, get the stones out.

 

[falafael]

transferred to demijohn today, a quick taste and surprisingly, its not bad really, fruity amd taking that familiar red wine taste!, but far from finished!
Will keep posting, by the way have also done a rhubarb and apple wine today!!

 

[falafael]

these 2 gallons being bottled in the morning, will advise on taste and colour etc!!

 

[trunky]

Heck F, you don't hang about!! From pitching yeast to bottling in a bround two weeks.

 

[falafael]

well, its done, and it's clear, so, i'd rather get it bottled and corked, labeled and sleeved and put into storage, freeing up the demijohns for more wine..got about 5 gallons of other wines fermenting, by the way, oyou really want to have a go at the peach and raisin wine, bloody beautiful, have got more fermenting, woman across road has asked me to make her some as well!!
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p.s, its been about 3 weeks, so it's about right in my eyes.....or glass! :drink:

 

[falafael]

well, bottled today, got 11 bottles from it in the end, a lovely deepish red colour, taste very much like a red wine, slightly earthy, but overall, its not a bad wine, certainly got a kick to it, and for something that cost something like £5, i ain't complaining!! :clap:

 

[commsbiff]

nice one mate :thumb:

 

[rickthebrew]

hi falafael!

any chance i could have your rhubarb and apple wine recipe and a method please?

cheers!

 

[falafael]

sorry for late reply rick, just seen the thread post, basically i used 5 tins of tesco's rhubarb, and 1 tin of apple pieces as well, if i remember, i chopped some raisins as well, a bag of sugar, pectolase, tannin and yeast...

I threw everything into the fermenting bin, topped up water to just over a gallon, and left in FV for about 3 days, then strain and transfer to a demijohn..
Hope this helps out, just one out my head i made up mate...good luck!!
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[Pablo_Snuky]

I have a plum tree in the garden which produced its first fruit last year so not too many. So I was looking forward to a bumper crop this year, however I have sold my house and it looks like I will be moving before the plums are ready

 

[Sean_Mc]

Take the tree with you

Loved the plum wine from last year from our Victoria tree, it took a good three plus months to condition and sadly has all gone now