Lychee Wine

[kampervan]

have made this few times and saw the rubicon juice so make a no1 and added the rubicon juice tried it last week and both me and missus prefer it from the rubicon juice so went and bought some more as on offer in lidl at 75 per litre

[Her Lushness]

Hmmmm, I may try the juice then instead, or wait till Grapefest to sample everyone elses....

[Rich]

I picked up 2 litres of juice today. Will get it sorted by GF10 Jo.

[Her Lushness]

I picked up 2 litres of juice today. Will get it sorted by GF10 Jo.

I believe I'm out locally tomorrow for work with a car and near a Lidls, so I'll probably get some juice and give it a try; seems rude not to really!

[koomber]

Lychees in the local tesco in Ellon. woop woop.

Have to find somewhere to hide this one from the missis or she'll kill me!

[spritzer]

Just started off some of this.... using the juice.
I haven't done the actual tinned fruit version yet, so it will be interesting to see the results

[modofodo]

Just started off some of this.... using the juice.
I haven't done the actual tinned fruit version yet, so it will be interesting to see the results

Will have to compare notes, mine has tinned juice and fruit at 1080! Started mine last night.

[spritzer]

Will have to compare notes, mine has tinned juice and fruit at 1080! Started mine last night.

Mine was one grape, one lychee (basically wine#1)...
But used 2tsp of tartaric acid instead of citric (cos that seemed to be the recipe for the original - I really need to get my head around the "acid" aspect of wine making ) and sugar to 1.080...

[spritzer]

Last night I racked, degassed and sorbated my lychee wine....
I need to back sweeten it.. it finished at .990.
It needs to be around .996 to .998 for me.
I thought there was a chart for how much sugar to add, to increase the SG...
I am sure I have seen something similar
Can anyone point me in the right direction ?
Its been a long day
Thanks


Edit: Decided to start with 500g of sugar (5 gal)... and its now .996, and tastes good. So will leave as is now.

[Rich]

http://web2.airmail.net/sgross/fermcalc/fermcalc_applet.html

That can help a bit

[spritzer]

http://web2.airmail.net/sgross/fermc...lc_applet.html


That can help a bit

Thats the very ticket Rich
This is what I had seen before, but didn't save it anywhere, but I have now
Luckily my guesstimate was quite good, otherwise I would have not slept tonight

[lockwood1956]

8 ounces of sugar will raise the SG of a gallon approx 0.018

[spritzer]

8 ounces of sugar will raise the SG of a gallon approx 0.018

I knew I had heard the number "8" in this context before, but I just couldn't find any reference to it, when I was looking for it.
I added 100g (just short of 4oz) per gallon, and its worked out well, and raised the SG, by 0.007
Just waiting for it to clear now

[iridium]

Hi there,

I haven't made wine for some time and seeing some Rubicon Lychee juice the other day sparked an idea in my head so off I Googled and here I am! Hello to everyone.

So, I'd like to give this a go but I've been out of this for so long that I've forgotten nearly everything

I'd like to try a gallon of this using the Rubicon juice to start off with but I'm not sure how many 1 litre cartons I'd need - I was thinking 4 - does that sound about right? And I'm not sure about sugar - a pound?

Actually, I'd really appreciate it if one of you knowledgeable folks have a recipe that I could follow please?

Thanks very much for any help.

Regards,

Steve

[spritzer]

Hi there,

I haven't made wine for some time and seeing some Rubicon Lychee juice the other day sparked an idea in my head so off I Googled and here I am! Hello to everyone.

So, I'd like to give this a go but I've been out of this for so long that I've forgotten nearly everything

I'd like to try a gallon of this using the Rubicon juice to start off with but I'm not sure how many 1 litre cartons I'd need - I was thinking 4 - does that sound about right? And I'm not sure about sugar - a pound?

Actually, I'd really appreciate it if one of you knowledgeable folks have a recipe that I could follow please?

Thanks very much for any help.

Regards,

Steve

Hi Steve...
And welcome to WAH

The first lychee wine I made, was a few months ago, and it was using the Rubicon juice.
I used the methodolgy and same quantities in this, LINKY
EXCEPT for the acid, as I used 2 tsp tartaric acid
And substituting the apple juice for the lychee juice.
It turned out to be a very delightful wine, and didn't last long

Hope this helps