Strawberry and Banana wine

[Michaeldonk]

Well just thought I'd share a picture of my Strawberry and Banana wine.

Steeped for 24 hours in 1.3kg sugar and a couple of pints of boiling water. Strained twice and added 1tsp citric acid. 1tsp nutrient and pitched the yeast at 20c with a gravity of 1070, potential alcohol was 14%. This is my first non kit wine so let me know if I did anythibg wrong.

 

[RobWalker]

You might need tannin for that. You can add it by making a cup of strong black tea and adding it in at any point.

You also didn't include the picture : but it sounds good otherwise!

 

[oldbloke]

Agree on the tannin

 

[Michaeldonk]

Forgot to say I added half a cup of strong tea before pitching. And ill try and get the photo on again.

 

[Michaeldonk]

No heres the link then https://www.dropbox.com/s/w8ms68wjbhjew9d/20140107_122047.jpg
Stupid phone lol

 

[BIGJIM72]

Looks good-fond of strawberry wine,yet to see what a banana wine turns out like.

 

[Michaeldonk]

I'm going to do an all banana one next week, just waiting for them to ripen now

 

[Michaeldonk]

So next question is should I shake my wine up. Its been on 24 hours and most of the fruit has settles to the bottom :/

 

[Michaeldonk]

So just been down to the lab and this is what greets me. Wasn't expecting an overflow 2 days in. But it looks like it was violent, I checked it just before bed at 1am and it was fine

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbxacu9grv4sj85/2014-01-09 11.18.34.jpg

 

[oldbloke]

Looking where you filled to, I'd have expected it, with strawb, and the banana can't have helped - both very pulpy, but light pulp that gets lifted by the gas and also traps it so lots of messy foamy stuff.
I don't think I've yet done a strawb that hasn't escaped, it needs way more headroom than seems reasonable

 

[wino2012]

What was the recipe? Like the sound of this and would like to give it a go. :thumb:

 

[Michaeldonk]

This is what I have in my note. I sort of muddled a few recipes up with different instructions.

1kg strawberry, hulled and chopped as small as you want to but I just halved the big ones
3 bananas, almost ripe but the riper the better, chopped up

Pop them in a pan with 1.3kg granulated sugar and about 1L of water, bring it slowly up to 60c and keep it there for about 20-30 minutes to pasturise
Give them all a good mash up while in the pan, turn off the heat and leave to steep for 24 hours (that's how long I left it but others say to leave for up to 48 hours, depends how impatient you are lol)
Strain through a sieve into your DJ, pop the pulp back in to the pan and add another litre of water, I added a crushed campden tab here but there should be no need if pasteurisation did what it's meant to do. Give it a good stir and strain through again
I then added 1 tsp of nutrient and citric acid, and half a cup of tesco red label tart enough to take the paint of your car tea which I left to stew for about 20 minutes
Then pitched my yeast at about 20c
Gave it a good shake up and there we are.
My OG was 1070 so potential is only 11% but as long as it tastes ok I don't mind.

Feel free to let me know how yours goes on and make sure you have a drip tray lol.

This is my first non kit wine so if it turns out **** I'm sorry.

 

[krazypara3165]

This is what I have in my note. I sort of muddled a few recipes up with different instructions.

1kg strawberry, hulled and chopped as small as you want to but I just halved the big ones
3 bananas, almost ripe but the riper the better, chopped up

Pop them in a pan with 1.3kg granulated sugar and about 1L of water, bring it slowly up to 60c and keep it there for about 20-30 minutes to pasturise
Give them all a good mash up while in the pan, turn off the heat and leave to steep for 24 hours (that's how long I left it but others say to leave for up to 48 hours, depends how impatient you are lol)
Strain through a sieve into your DJ, pop the pulp back in to the pan and add another litre of water, I added a crushed campden tab here but there should be no need if pasteurisation did what it's meant to do. Give it a good stir and strain through again
I then added 1 tsp of nutrient and citric acid, and half a cup of tesco red label tart enough to take the paint of your car tea which I left to stew for about 20 minutes
Then pitched my yeast at about 20c
Gave it a good shake up and there we are.
My OG was 1070 so potential is only 11% but as long as it tastes ok I don't mind.

Feel free to let me know how yours goes on and make sure you have a drip tray lol.

This is my first non kit wine so if it turns out **** I'm sorry.

It will be really interesting to see how this turns out! im planning on doing two more wines in the following week after this one is done :)

 

[Michaeldonk]

The man in doors wants to try an exotic wine. Hes thinking mango or coconut. I best get searching for recipes. Ive got two empty 23l fv and one empty 5l one so plenty of room for it. We are now on day three with the strawberry one and its still going strong. I recon it will get higher than the 11% potential. I did add a full 5g of wine yeast. Not sure if that makes or difference or just more of a mess lol