Banana | 3 Gallons
- Gervin's High
alcohol
tolerance (S.cerevisiae) French strain GV26 - 3 lb sugar /
gallon |
Season |
Anytime |
Well ripened bananas |
12
pounds |
The bananas should be left until the skins are essentially black as they will then be ripened fully, wine can be made when the bananas are less ripe, but the end product is not as good. |
Blackberry & Elderberry | 4 Gallons - Gervin's High alcohol tolerance (S.cerevisiae) French strain GV26 - 3 lb sugar / gallon - Pectolytic enzyme 24 hours delay to adding yeast |
Season |
August
to October |
Mixed
berries, approximately 50:50 |
12
pounds |
Preparation |
Wash
the berries to remove
insects and other detritus, then blend in liquidiser. This year, the yeast was added the same time as the pectolase, with hindsight, this is a mistake and the pectolase should be left for 24 hours to clear the pectin from the wine. Pectin is are what give the wine a haze, great for jam, not great for wine. |
|
Using
a hydrometer, the wine is
shown to be sweet (approx.
1.030) and hence has been divided from 4 demijohns into 5
demijohns. An
additional sachet of the high alcohol yeast was added along with
sufficient
water to make upto 5 gallons. The wine will be left for a
further few
months
to reduce the sweetness of the wine. NB, future wines being made
at 2.5
lbs per gallon, having to ferment out for 2 years is not fun ! |
Blackberry |
4 Gallons - Gervin's High alcohol tolerance (S.cerevisiae) French strain GV26 - 3 lb sugar / gallon - Pectolytic enzyme 24 hours delay to adding yeast |
Season |
August
to October |
Blackberries |
22
pounds |
Orange |
4 Gallons - Gervin's High alcohol tolerance (S.cerevisiae) French strain GV26 - 3 lb sugar / gallon - Pectolytic enzyme 24 hours delay to adding yeast |
Season |
January
to February - approx. 6 weeks |
Sweet
& Seville oranges |
5-6 Kg Wash the oranges, remove the white pith and seeds, puree everything else. |
Potato
peeler / parer |
To
remove the rind from the oranges without
added pith |
Mango |
1 gallon - Gervin's High alcohol tolerance (S.cerevisiae) French strain GV26 - 3 lb sugar / gallon - Pectolytic enzyme 24 hours delay to adding yeast |
Season |
Summer |
Preparation |
Remove
the skin, easiest with a
sharp knife and not a parer. Chill in the fridge 24 hours prior to
this
to make the flesh more firm and easy to handle. The mango flesh was
frozen for a week and then defrosted and pureed. Next time just goto
salad bar and buy pre- prepared mango |
Huckleberry |
1 gallon - Gervin's High alcohol tolerance (S.cerevisiae) French strain GV26 - 3 lb sugar / gallon - Pectolytic enzyme 24 hours delay to adding yeast |
Season |
Autumn,
after the berries have
been subjected to a frost. But freeze them anyway |
Preparation |
Wash
berries, freeze for a few
days, defrost. Puree, boil in preserving pan. Can either mash them
or
squeeze the berries with a latex glove. NB The juice stains anything it comes into contact with, clothes, skin etc. Excellent dye! Ferment for a week as per usual, strain and add the rest of the sugar, put into demijohn. |
Link |
Matt's
Waite
gave
me a few ideas and the berries from Bodger
who will make you most things historical |
Apricot |
1 gallon - Gervin's High alcohol tolerance (S.cerevisiae) French strain GV26 - 2.5 lb sugar / gallon - Pectolytic enzyme 0 hours delay to adding yeast |
Autumn |
Used
3x 500g punnets from
Tesco's as they were on special |
Preparation |
Place
in freezer, allow to
freeze solid. Remove and cut with sharp knife, the flesh parts
easily
to the stone which can then be discarded. Puree, add stuff and
sugar,
ferment in bulk for a week, strain, add sugar, put into demijohn
etc..... |
Plum |
3
Gallons - Gervin's High
alcohol
tolerance
(S.cerevisiae) French strain GV26 - 2.5 lb sugar / gallon -
Pectolytic
enzyme over 24 hours delay to adding yeast - not good to forget on
warm day ! |
Autumn |
3 large punnets from local farm shop £5 |
Plums
washed, cut with knife,
then frozen until time to make them. Update - the demijohns smell
"right", no odour suggesting any problems :) |
Pumpkin |
3
Gallons, 2.5 pounds of sugar per gallon, 1 teaspoon of yeast
nutrient
and amylase per gallon, high alcohol yeast |
Season |
Autumn,
but after Halloween |
Pumpkin
flesh |
23
pounds - rind and seeds discarded |
The pumpkins were stripped of their seeds and the rind removed, then the pulp was cut up before being blended in a food processor. The pulp was then frozen, which incidentally helps to break down the cells. Half the sugar was dissolved and mixed in with the wine as usual. |
Marrow |
Gallons, 2.5 pounds of demerara sugar per gallon, 1 teaspoon of yeast nutrient and amylase per gallon, high alcohol yeast |
Season |
Autumn |
Marrow
flesh |
23
pounds, seeds and approximately 5 cm of the
rind
removed, so no green flesh remaining |
Root
ginger |
10
ounces, finely shredded |
The marrow's were stripped of their seeds and the rind removed, then the pulp was cut up before being blended in a food processor. Half the sugar was dissolved and mixed in with the wine as usual. |
Mango and Pineapple 2020 | 1 Gallon: 1.5 kg of frozen fruit, defrosted and pureed and then fermented in the demijohn for 3 months, next time will be bin ferment with half the sugar and then strain the pulp and add the other half of the sugar |
Made from frozen fruit from the supermarket and as 3 gallons, but blending was needed | Sugar was too much this time at 3 pounds per gallon, so 2.5 pounds per gallon, pectolase, yeast and nutrient. Think I used generic yeast that time, next batch will be a mangrove jack's MA33 as reported to be an acid reducing strain and the pineapple was quite acidic, needs to be 2 gallons of mango to 1 of pineapple. At the end, the 3 gallons were poured into a 5 gallon bin to degas and pour into bottles with a jug and funnel. Worth considering adding more mango fruit as well, say 4 kg and only 1 kg of pineapple. Will have to look into Mango and Strawberry. |