White grape powder wine.

[Frogbrew]

Anyone else tried this white grape powder?? Just put a 5 lt one on using it for the first time, smells nice.
Bought off eBay for £15 comes with free yeast and nutrient too. You need 460g to make 23 ltrs and 4kg sugar, so scaled it down to 5ltr for a first attempt.

 

[LED_ZEP]

My results with the white on it's own were not great so it got used to add a little vinosity to fruit wines and that worked well.
The red made a drinkable wine for the money better than the £20 - £25 kits I'd tried and just £8.5 for 23l (plus sugar).

I made a rosehip and and mango wine that when back sweetened was really nice just using the powder.

There's a long thread here that relates to the grape powder (red mostly).

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/red-wine-concentrate-substitute.72829/

 

[Frogbrew]

Cheers for your reply led zep, I'll take a look.

 

[Frogbrew]

Interesting thread that one led zep, I don't hold out much hope for my white after reading though. One post did mention it gets better with age but this ain't gonna happen with my Mrs.

 

[LED_ZEP]

My go to cheap white is just tesco value tinned peaches min 12 cans but more is better sugar and 2l of apple juice made to 23l. You can add tannin/tea, sultanas to taste but I like it back sweetened to bring out the peach.

 

[Frogbrew]

What do you do with the peaches? Mash em up and Chuck in the fv including the syrup?

 

[LED_ZEP]

I put them and the syrup in a 10l plastic bucket with a lid, add three tsp of pectolase and blend with a hand blender and leave for 24hrs. Then it's just in to a 25l F.V. with sugar and apple juice topped up to 23l with water.

 

[gar]

The red and rose are good, the white is a bit trickier. I've tried it as per instructions, took an age to clear (I don't use finnings). The body improved with age and ended up OK. I tried it with 50% more grape powder, not good. Tried again with a bit of citric, not good. The latest Gallon has some pectic in, to help clear and looks OK but is early days.

 

[Frogbrew]

Bottled this grape powder wine today, added two part finings two days ago and crystal clear. Colour more like whisky, quite dark straw.

Taste wise initially not good, strong alcohol flavour but not much else, I think this will be staying in the bottle a while. The bottles next to it are redgrape/aj just to compare the colours, bottled yesterday and good for drinking straight away.

 

[LED_ZEP]

The batch I made was the same colour. That was before I put it through a specialist bit of errrmm clearing equipment and it ended up about 70% successful and crystal clear

 

[stz]

I bought some of the red powder and some of the grape concentrate. I've a kenridge kit fermenting at the moment to which I added 200g of the powder with the aim of increasing the body.

 

[LED_ZEP]

I bought some of the red powder and some of the grape concentrate. I've a kenridge kit fermenting at the moment to which I added 200g of the powder with the aim of increasing the body.

I've used the red and white powders to add vinosity and improve the flavour profile of fruit juice wines and it works great for that. As for body? Well it doesn't add any mouth feel to the brew but it (the red powder) does add colour and tannin.