Saving my red wineI posted this earlier under the 'drying out my red wines' but I'll repost under a new subject in hopes I can obtain an answer. I have 15 gallons...
Anyone here use these before? (archived posts only brought up one thread where Jack K and Ben from Honeycreek, said they were good - at least juice wise, I have nectar they may be different things).
I have been eyeing these juices at the store for some time (they are sold in the Mexican ethnic aisles here). They are nectars, juice with sugar syrup added to balance flavor, so I figured they would be a rough approximation flavor intensity wise for wine.
Pbutting by they were one sale (12oz can) so I decided to try my hand at a jumex wine. I chose the mango flavor. It is 30% juice (by volume I suppose). Other interseting flavor they had that I might try in the future are tamarind, guava and guanabana. They also have the standard peach, pear, apple and plum.
Bottled Turbo WineDorothy, I started fermenting it some 6 weeks ago and the thing stopped fermenting. I did...
Here is the recipe I came up with. It was impossible to measure the SG of the nectar. Since it was basically pureed fruit the pulp was very fine in solution. So I added extra pectic enzyme.
11 cans Jumex mango nectar 1-2 lb sugar 1 tsp acid blend (I kind of wonder if I should have used citric) 1 tsp pectic enzyme (I used twice the reccomended amount)
I am very interested in trying to get this wine to work. I hear mango wine is wonderful, but buying mangos and making wine out of them is a very expensive thing to do here in Nebraska.
Fruit Fly Trouble 370Yeah, I'm having a big problem with them myself, there seems to be more and more around, no matter how much I clean the area. I have my primarys...