When we do our weekly shop, we often end up with some soft fruit from the previous week.
It might be a few raspberries, or strawb's or maybe some eating grapes or blueberries etc etc.
As Clare was on a short course today (that didn't start till half 9), she decided to do the shop first thing, rather than this evening.
Anyway, as usual, I just got the half a dozen blackberries, a punnet of strawbs, and about half a bunch of grapes, and after trimming up any manky fruit, it all went into the liquidiser to make a smoothy (about a pint in quantity and very pleasant to drink.
It occured to me that I was wasting fermentables - and as I often end up with between 1/2 and a litre of smoothy (only fruit, nothing else added), I could freeze them/it down until I've got maybe 4 or 5 litres of frozen pulp and convert it into a mixed fruit wine or melomel.
Yes, it would be fair to point out that there'd be a fair bit of pulp in it, but I though that maybe 5 litres or so of the blitzed fruit, then made up to 2 gallons with appropriate level's of honey/sugar etc, should still give me a gallon or so.
Of course, I know that these are "eating" fruit, rather than winemaking equivalents etc, but I don't see why it shouldn't be Ok.
Is this really such a stupid idea or should I just stick to drinking the fruit as smoothies ?
regards
JtFB
It might be a few raspberries, or strawb's or maybe some eating grapes or blueberries etc etc.
As Clare was on a short course today (that didn't start till half 9), she decided to do the shop first thing, rather than this evening.
Anyway, as usual, I just got the half a dozen blackberries, a punnet of strawbs, and about half a bunch of grapes, and after trimming up any manky fruit, it all went into the liquidiser to make a smoothy (about a pint in quantity and very pleasant to drink.
It occured to me that I was wasting fermentables - and as I often end up with between 1/2 and a litre of smoothy (only fruit, nothing else added), I could freeze them/it down until I've got maybe 4 or 5 litres of frozen pulp and convert it into a mixed fruit wine or melomel.
Yes, it would be fair to point out that there'd be a fair bit of pulp in it, but I though that maybe 5 litres or so of the blitzed fruit, then made up to 2 gallons with appropriate level's of honey/sugar etc, should still give me a gallon or so.
Of course, I know that these are "eating" fruit, rather than winemaking equivalents etc, but I don't see why it shouldn't be Ok.
Is this really such a stupid idea or should I just stick to drinking the fruit as smoothies ?
regards
JtFB
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