Tell Me what you think of thes WoW Recipes? novice brewing:)

[photoken]

Hi

Going to start a batch of the following - tell me if you think I'm going in the right direction?? and if I'm going wrong in any way

Recipe 1

1x 1L welch's White grape, pear and apple juice
1x 1L cranberry juice
2 x 750ml Copella winter warmer 750ml
1X 1L Apple Juice
550g brown sugar
1 - 2 tsp Cinnamon
4 teabag brew for tannine
1/2 bottle of Chardonnay (left over from another batch - thought might add some depth)??
Dried wine yeast
Yeast neautriant
1tsp pec
1tsp citric acid
topup with water to 4.5L

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Recipe 2

1x 1L welch's Red grape Juice
2x 1L cranberry juice
2 x 750ml Copella winter warmer 750ml
550g brown sugar
Contents of a mulling spiced teabag
+ maybe soak some spicey tea bags in pint of water (10 or so) then add sugar to dissolve sugar
4 teabag brew for tannine
1/2 bottle of Cabernet saugnon (left over from another batch - thought might add some depth)??
Dried wine yeast
Yeast neautriant
1tsp pec
1tsp citric acid
topup with water to 4.5L


Major thanks in advance


Ken

 

[RobWalker]

well...you have 5L of juice in a 4.5L demi john there, not least mentioning the space taken up by 550g sugar :p

you want to use about 2-3L juice to a 4.5L brew. any more and your wine will have too much body. i'd also up the sugar a bit to maybe 700g? you want to aim for 12% as that's when wine gets self preserving properties. you can always add a drab of water/soda/lemonade in the glass if you want it weaker.

i would leave your cabernet out, it's probably oxidized by now, which will give the whole batch a bad taste. for your second wine, when the fermentation has completed, why dont you dangle the teabag into the wine suspended on fishing line? that way you can take it out when it's taken enough of the flavour. maybe a week?

 

[bobsbeer]

I would also use white grape juice rather than the mixed juice. While there are no hard and fast rules with WOW, I find it better to keep the ratio of 1 grape to 1 juice, no matter which colour of grape or fruit juice variety, but apple is a good one to have in the mix. The grape juice gives the wine some vinosity, which can be lacking in all juice wines and adds some acidity to the must which is good. I try to keep the ph around 3.2-3.5, much above that and it tastes a bit bland.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Hi photoken, i cannot really add to the great advice Rob and Bob have already given you, if you want to look at lots of juice based wine recipes with comments left by fellow forum members have a read of the thread here -

viewtopic.php?f=41&t=39846

 

[photoken]

Many Thanks Chippy, Bob and Rob :)

thanks
Ken