Red grape and Blueberry rose

[WaveyDave]

This sounds lovely and am going to add it to my list of planned brews.
:thumb:

One question though. Do i need to heat the Blueberry juice to get rid of any preservatives?

Also, which Banana recipe are you going with? I'd like to try this and have seen a few on here - or do you have your own recipe?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I dont know if this juice has preservative but I do know boiling doesnt get rid of it or not all of it, it certainly didn't when I made ribena wine when I first started out and that experiment ended going down the plug hole.

 

[SmokeyRobinson]

Hi Waveydavey

I don't boil the blueberry juice and haven't had any problems but if you want to be sure boiling it will remove the vast majority of additives. As for the banana wine I just winged it really with stuff I have learnt ove the years and I'm clearing a 20ltr batch as I write this. If you follow the recipie I put in earlier you wont go far wrong. Let me know what you think if you try either.

Mark

 

[yesumission]

I'm going to transfer this into another bucket. Do you need to add Campden tablets. Or just degass and rack

 

[Chippy_Tea]

You need to use campden the first time you rack.

 

[Gorty]

Ive made a few of these red grape and blueberry rose's and i have to say they went down rather well with the other half and my mam really enjoys it. I used Asda juice to make them (the stuff in the bottle that are on for 3 for �£3 at the moment. I'm sure someone else will have made one but heres my way of making it

1ltr red grape
1ltr blueberry juice
700g sugar
1 tspn pectolase
1 tspn citric
1 cup of strong tea (yorkshire tea of course)
wilkos wine yeast

Topped up with cooled boiled water to roughly 4ltrs and the S.G came in at 1.080

Hi Smokey,
I've too have been making the blueberry and RGJ for some time, the only differences between our recipes is I use 2l of blueberry juice and the sugar works out at 765 grams, this gives a real full flavoured rich red coloured wine, the nearest I have got to a red wine using WOW.
Oh and like Chippy I've stopped using citric acid where they have added acid to the fruit juice. The old stomach was complaining!
I use the Sainsbury's juice, it's 86p a litre at the moment and I've got some vouchers so it would be a shame to waste them.
It's become so popular with the visitors that I have to make it in 25l lots now!

 

[Roddy]

you're safe from preservative on this one (no boiling required), blueberry juice drink ingreds

Additives

Free From: Artificial Colours, Artificial Flavours.

Ingredients

Water , Blueberry Juice Not from Concentrate (11%) , Sugar , Blueberry Purée (2.0%) , Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid) , Flavouring

 

[Chippy_Tea]

At 11% juice you may need to double up or you may not notice any flavour in the finished wine.

 

[WaveyDave]

Got two on the go.

Red Grape & Blueberry
Red Grape & Pink Grapefuit

Going like the clappers at the moment!:thumb:

 

[yesumission]

Mines has Been going for a week. Bubbling every 2 mins. Took a taste of it. It doesn't really taste like wine and is so dry. I took a reading 0.990 any advice would be awesome

 

[WaveyDave]

Not sure if it's advisable to back sweeten these?

 

[cheapbrew]

Not sure if it's advisable to back sweeten these?

Why do you say that Wavey?

 

[WaveyDave]

Why do you say that Wavey?

I said that wrong:whistle:

What i should have said is that i don't know if these brews can be back sweetened... should have kept my trap shut as i don't know! :lol:

 

[WaveyDave]

On a side note i have checked them today and mine taste great so far but a long way to go yet.:thumb:

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Yes they can be back sweetened but you may find they don't need it.

 

[cheapbrew]

If you let them finish fermenting, then unless you like really dry wine you will have to back sweeten, as with most wines. But if you stop it when its down to less than one bubble every two mins, which I find is around 995 - 998, then it will probably be just about right, unless you like sweet wine.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I agree with CB I stop mine when they get to one bubble evey minute.

 

[SmokeyRobinson]

Nice to see a few people trying this. Mines gone and another on the go. I'm trying a red grape and pink grapefruit version of the same recipie anyone else tried this and how did it turn out

Mark

 

[WaveyDave]

I've got some of this on the go, just clearing now.

 

[Tau]

Just bought the Asda blueberry and 2ltrs of their red grape, will give it go this week after I bottle wb wine.