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Help ........... just steam juicing 5lbs of rosehips - variety of shapes and sizes - removed stalks and any attachments at other end, but didn't cut off the brown, hard end on most of them - at first the smell was gorgeous like apples, but after half an hour became more like tea - the juice also looks like tea, and is a browny colour - can anyone tell me if this sounds right to continue, or have I wasted several hours trudging round the hedgerows, cutting my fingers to shreds? I really was expecting a more 'rose' coloured juice, with a hint of mmmmm about it. Cheers.
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I steamed some last year and think it came out like dirty orange juice and the extracted juice had to be recirculated a few times to get nearly 20% by weight extraction.
The juice was pasteurised and a bottle left over from last year has dropped it's sediment to leave a medium brown clear juice (it's in a clear glass bottle). -
Thks sir - thought a few more might have tried it - its fermenting away, didn't taste poisonous when tfered to dj - so guess have to wait and see.Comment
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tried this last year liked so have a bottle of steamed juice waiting for a spare djComment
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Kampervan - what colour and smell is your juice/last years fermentation? I thought I might have ended up with more essence of rose hip seeds, than essence of the rose hip red bit.Comment
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Mine was like this (but I did put the juice back through to get max extraction):Originally posted by kampervan View PostComment
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Wow - wish mine was anything like that - might go see if any still left in hedgerows.Comment
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Rosehips revisited .................. just racked my brew after 80 days, still the odd bubble occuring, but wanted it off lees as must be getting towards sensible limit - it has 'pinked' up considerably, so still hopeful by time clears may get the colour right! BUT, the flavour is distinctly 'sherryish' - given that I extracted the juice initially by steam juicer, and because it was 'sterilized' by the heat involved, I didn't K-met the must.
Do the panel think it has oxidised, and I should prepare for the sherry flavour to be there permanently?
(I assume Rosehip wine shouldn't taste of sherry?)Comment
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