scorpien222

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I have recently made two gallons of apple wine following a recipe for crab apple wine I have followed it to the letter bar using a different type of apple when I took my OG reading I knew it was going to be strong around 17-18 ABV but I had only put in the sugars as advised by the recipe I think it was 1.5KG of sugar per gallon I don't have my recipe on me so this could be a little out.

I racked off my wine yesterday for the first time and decided to have a little sip of it and the first taste to smack you in the face is pure alcohol and then the apple comes through after it does tell me I new to age the wine for 6 months will this flavor mellow out ?? Will the apple flavor become more prominent through aging and mask the alcohol flavor ? Would adding oak chips help mask the flavor ? Any advice would be appreciated

Justin

scorpien222

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The OG was 1.120.

FuzzeWuzze

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Yes, it will get better with time. If you do sample it along the way and its still too crazy, just cut it with some apple juice or sprite as a mixer to make it drinkable.

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Insomniac

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It depends, for a good answer we need to know the yeast used and fermentation temps. But I can tell you that at that og its going to take a lot of aging, at such a young age the alcohol will be prominent but it should fade. I would leave it 6 months, then give it a little taste while bottling. If its still not there, leave it another 6 before opening the first bottle.

Yooper

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That's a very very high OG. Did your instructions say to start at 1.120? My apple and crabapple wine is best at 1.085-1.100 as an OG. An OG of 1.120 will make a wine that is very "hot" for a long time.

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scorpien222

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The recipe didn't give an expected OG it was from a book I was bought and I just followed the ingredients listed.

scorpien222

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I used champagne yeast and the fermentation temps were around 15 degrees.

david_42

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With that combination, "hot" alcohols aren't the problem. My experience with high OG apple wines is they take a long time to mellow and the apple stays in the background.

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scorpien222

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Ok so it's basically a case of just age it and see what happens ?

rhartwel41

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I made some apple wine a few months ago and at bottling it was pretty hot and hardly drinkable. I opened a bottle this past weekend and it's drastically better then it was at bottling. I'm going to have a hard time letting it age for another few months.