raspberry wine

[billybuntus]

Hi,

I made a raspberry wine back in march of this year but a few months ago the computer died and I lost all of my notes most annoying ! I'll be sure to write them all up in future!

Anyway, The raspberry wine has turned out to be great already buy I can't find my original recipe. The wine is light bodied (rose) and I think I only used around 500g of raspberrys for a gallon. Does anybody have a recipe along those lines? I also seem to remember being told to not add any additional acid? possibly?

please help!

[Crundy]

Dunno about the wine, but seriously, you should get yourself some subversion space (e.g. from http://unfuddle.com/ for free) and a subversion client (like http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/) to back up and version all your files. If you use Excel to store your recipes then save them in XML format so you can diff versions using tortoise.

[kampervan]

raspberry was def my best last year, tay and loganberry are better. best method so far was wine no1 then after initial ferment add beries much juicier and fresh. Have now done a fair few on pulp and a few wine no1 plus juice, second method is much better, just need a steam juicer, roll on xmas

[billybuntus]

raspberry was def my best last year, tay and loganberry are better. best method so far was wine no1 then after initial ferment add beries much juicier and fresh. Have now done a fair few on pulp and a few wine no1 plus juice, second method is much better, just need a steam juicer, roll on xmas

Recipe please

[fatbloke]

Hi,

I made a raspberry wine back in march of this year but a few months ago the computer died and I lost all of my notes most annoying ! I'll be sure to write them all up in future!

Anyway, The raspberry wine has turned out to be great already buy I can't find my original recipe. The wine is light bodied (rose) and I think I only used around 500g of raspberrys for a gallon. Does anybody have a recipe along those lines? I also seem to remember being told to not add any additional acid? possibly?

please help!

Dunno about the wine, but seriously, you should get yourself some subversion space (e.g. from http://unfuddle.com/ for free) and a subversion client (like http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/) to back up and version all your files. If you use Excel to store your recipes then save them in XML format so you can diff versions using tortoise.

Why go to all that hassle of subversion space etc, you can protect your notes/methods/recipe by blogging it! Then true to the open source ethos, your info (with pics if you want) is available for all.... and you still have your stuff to make repeat batches of whatever......

sorry, can't post a recipe for just raspberry. I've only ever made it with other fruit/apple juice etc......

though I do recall Bob saying to be careful with pure raspberries, as it can make a very acid wine and the rasp's can come out surprisingly powerful....

regards

jtfb

[lockwood1956]

for 1 gallon:

1 litre white grape juice
1 litre apple juice
sugar to 1.080
1 tsp acid (citric or tartaric)
1 tsp yeast nutrient
Good quality yeast


Ferment to around 1.010 then add 500gram raspberries and ferment out, racking and botrtling in the normal way.

the late addition of the fruit retains freshness, and because the alcohol level is higher in the wine close to the end, the alcohol extracts the colours and flavours really well, and because ferment is less vigorous at the end, these flavour and taste compounds dont get blown out with the CO2

hope this helps
regards
Bob

[billybuntus]

Thanks bob

[kampervan]

as bob said that is the best method. original rasp was 15lb rasp, 5ltr white grape and sugar to 1080 about 5 kg.yeast and nutrient.