Strong coffee wine

[Ajt125]

Hi all

I'm looking to make up a gallon of strong coffee wine. Would it be possible to make it 20% plus ?

Anyone have a good recipe?

Thanks
Ant.

 

[Moley]

Just under the forum banner, to the right hand side, there's a "search" button.

Restricting to searching titles only gives this lot. I suggest you read through some of those first.

I've only got the recipe out of "First Steps" which calls for 1 level tbsp of instant coffee, 1kg of sugar and 1 tbsp of citric acid, plus yeast and nutrient. I have made that, only once, and it was vile, but that was a very long time ago when I was still a teenager and probably didn't have a clue what I was doing.

If you wanted 20% abv that would need 1.75kg of sugar and a yeast which could tolerate that sort of alcohol level.

However, there's sod all in that recipe to give the wine any body so it's probably best left light.

You need a big wine to carry off that sort of alcohol level. It is possible, things like wheat & raisin or parsnip sherry can be pushed to the limit. However, the stronger you make it, the longer it needs to mature, and I'm talking 2-5 years for the ones I just mentioned.

 

[Ajt125]

Thanks moley I've now found a recipe I'm going to try this one:

viewtopic.php?f=41&t=17491&hilit=Coffee

Ant.

 

[extremedalek]

Just had a look to try this one myself. Would you use a high alcohol yeast, or is that not really necessary?

Also, feeding the fermentation with sugar is worrying me slightly, in that I don't really know how to do this - is it just a case of mixing 100g of sugar into a little water and dumping it in the DJ?

 

[oldbloke]

I used a standard wine yeast in mine. I planned on pitching a high-tolerance yeast when the standard one gave up but haven't bothered in the end, figuring around 16% and quite sweet will actually do quite nicely. It's just about clear enough to bottle now, actually, may sneak a taste later today to get a hydrometer reading and judge id it has enough vanilla.

Gervin do a high tolerance yeast if you want 20%

 

[oldbloke]

Well we had a taste and it's rather nice. Hydrometer suggests only 13% but tastes like more. Seem to have got the vanilla just right, but sadly my notes just say "A few drops" rather than a proper ml measurement. Quite sweet but not in a bad way. Will certainly make more, this time with the high tolerance yeast and even more sugar.