Supermarket Juice Wine How To guide and Recipes.

[Chippy_Tea]

Yot juice cartons were 20 and 30 % the finished wine may be a little watery tasting, you can always add juice to get a stronger flavour, I always use two cartons if its below fifty percent and one WGJ.

 

[Welsh_Wizard]

I added 3 litres of juice in the end because of the weak supplementary flavours. The Cherry was 20%, Mixed Berry 30% and RGJ 100%.

Can I back sweeten with 100% RGJ or WGJ after it's all fermented???

 

[uproar13]

If you have degassed you can top up.

Question about 'topping up'

Does it in some way dilute the wine i.e make it less strong/alcohol?

 

[Tim_Crowhurst]

If you use water or juice to top up, the wine will contain less alcohol.

You can also reserve leftover wine when bottling, and use that to top up. Just make sure you use wine of a similar or complimentary type. E.g. I have some leftover red berry melomel which I'll be using to top up a half-demijohn of blackberry & crabapple.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I added 3 litres of juice in the end because of the weak supplementary flavours. The Cherry was 20%, Mixed Berry 30% and RGJ 100%.

Can I back sweeten with 100% RGJ or WGJ after it's all fermented???

yes but you must stabilise first as it will ferment again if you don't.

 

[Welsh_Wizard]

Ok cheers

 

[CalverleyWinery]

New to this. What combination would be the quickest to make, bottle and drink?

 

[bobsbeer]

I would say for 5lt use 1lt white grape juice and 1lt apple juice. 800g granulated sugar, 1 tsp tannin and 1 tsp pectolase and nutrient such as Vit B. I would use Youngs White Bordeaux yeast, but 1tsp of any wine yeast will be fine. OG will be around 1.080 and FG 0.992 with an abv of around 12%. Drinkable after about 2-4 weeks in the bottle.

I always dissolve the sugar in some water having added the tannin to the dry sugar. Bring to the boil and let cool a bit before adding to the FV.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I agree with Bob but would look for an apple juice with added flavour such as raspberry, make sure it is 100% juice if it is below fifty percent use two litres, you can drink the raspberry as soon as it has cleared and it tastes great, some supermarket juice wines do benefit from a week or two maturing but IMHO the raspberry doesnt need it if you are desperate to drink it.

I boil a kettle and pour about a litre into a large pan then add the sugar and stir, if using glass demis let it cool a lot before adding it and always put the juice in first.

I use youngs super wine yeast compound which has other ingredients in it as well as the yeast, you can use a mug of black tea as tannin use 3 tea bags and stir it regularly over a 15 minute period, also add a teaspoon of glycerin as it gives mouth feel to your wine.

 

[Padster]

New to this. What combination would be the quickest to make, bottle and drink?

I'm pretty new to this too, my first attempt at a WOW was the apple/raspberry (following recipe on here). I started it on 18th November and was drinking it by Christmas Day and it's fab! Will definitely do it again!

 

[CalverleyWinery]

I have three on the go already from Wednesday night following the general WoW receipe and these seem to be bubbling away nicely.

Apple and tropical (orange, pineapple, banana) 1.5l apple 500ml tropical and all pure juice

Red grape and apple 1l of each again pure juice

Red grape and prune 1l of each again pure juice

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Prune :sick: , thats a first, let us know how it turns out.

 

[CalverleyWinery]

It was on offer

 

[Chippy_Tea]

It was on offer

The beauty of making wine from supermarket juice is if it turns out nasty it has only cost a couple of quid.

I have just bottled my apple/raspberry + WGJ and it tastes great as usual, the apple/peach/pear + WGJ is a bit harsh, i am sure it will benefit from a few days in the under stairs cupboard.

I have a busy weekend ahead as i have enough juice and sugar to make 6 DJ's of wine, i would have used my bucket but there is already a The Range Rose kit in there. : :lol:

 

[CalverleyWinery]

Everywhere I look there seems to be no WGJ, is there a shortage out there?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

We have 1.5 litre cartons in Tesco and 1 litre cartons at Asda, recently we could not get hold of it at Tesco so i emailed customer support and to cut a long story short there is always a decent supply now.

 

[chrissyteacup]

I've just started my first 2 wow's I've only made country wines so far and only started last September so nothing to drink yet so thought I'd have a bash.

I've made the original orange wow and I've done one with Pom pomegranate and blueberry juice. I'm worried this will be weak as only used 1 litre of juice as didn't realise that most people use 2l of the main juice until after I'd been shopping. also didn't have any lemons (thought I had one in the fridge so I added 500ml orange juice instead. I do have some pomegranate and raspberry herbal tea so should I stick some in when topping up to add some flavour?? Or leave it alone?

Also on another note I saw someone I forget who said they'd tried making some with the aldi christmas punch how did this turn out? I have some I'd got for when my pregnant sister in law came round but she only had water could offer it to her next year in wine form :)

 

[krazypara3165]

Is it just me or is it getting increasingly difficult to find higher concentrate juice. went to my local sainsburys and aside from apple and orange which were 100% they had red grape which was also 100% a cranberry blend and a rasberry/blackberry blend which were 100% (but was a mix of 70% grape, and then a mixture of apple cranberry blackberry and rasberry) aside from them nothing seemed to be above 30%!!!!

Am I missing something?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I've made the original orange wow and I've done one with Pom pomegranate and blueberry juice. I'm worried this will be weak as only used 1 litre of juice as didn't realise that most people use 2l of the main juice until after I'd been shopping.

I only use 2 litres of the main juice if they are under 50% juice, the apple/raspberry + WGJ i have just put on was 90% apple and 10% raspberry pure i have made this before many times and it is one of my favourites.

I have just looked at the first post in this thread where i posted my first recipe and it was a pomegranate + WGJ wine, as you can see from the quote below it was 33% pomegranate so i used 2 litres and a litre of WGJ, as you have made wine before you might find 2 litres overpowering, why not make it with 1 litre of pomegranate juice and a litre of WGJ and see how it goes you can then change it next time or add a little juice to it to strengthen it.

The pomegranate juice is a juice drink, details below.

ingredients

Water,
Fruit Juices from Concentrate 33% (Pomegranate 30%, Aronia Berries),
Natural Fruit Sugars,
Flavours,
PurePlus™ (100% Natural Pomegranate Extract)

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Is it just me or is it getting increasingly difficult to find higher concentrate juice. went to my local sainsburys and aside from apple and orange which were 100% they had red grape which was also 100% a cranberry blend and a rasberry/blackberry blend which were 100% (but was a mix of 70% grape, and then a mixture of apple cranberry blackberry and rasberry) aside from them nothing seemed to be above 30%!!!!

Am I missing something?

I know (as i said above) that pomegranate juice drink is only 33% and it tastes really strong, fermentation takes a lot of the taste out but 2 litres in a DJ with a litre of WGJ is still strong when it is finished.

The apple/raspberry i referred to earlier is only 10% raspberry and 90% apple, you would imagine it would taste of apple yet the raspberry is the main flavour when it is finished.

I assume they only put a low percentage of juice in the juice drink cartons as at 100% they would be way too strong and a lot more expensive.