JeremyCT

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I just bottled, and holy crap. I was skeptical, but this came out tasty!

4 lbs carrots, (grated and boiled in one gallon of water. I just poured the carrot water through a strainer onto the raisins)
2 lbs brown sugar
a little cinnamon and nutmeg
1 lb thompson raisins
lalvin d47

No secondary
yield = 1 gallon

Ended up pretty dry. And strong. I'm on an empty stomach, but I poured myself a pint of this while bottling, and I feel it. yeayeah!


I'm glad this came out good, 'cause I started a five gallon batch a few days ago based on the smell of the one gallon batch. Ha!
I can't wait to see how it ages.

SFBEER

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Sounds interesting. I might be brave enough to try it one day.

JeremyCT

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Cost about three bucks to make a gallon.
Why wouldn't you? ha!

barracudamagoo

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I have a spare gallon jug laying around, so I might give this a shot. I thought yuck, the first time I heard about carrot soup; but, it is delicious. I imagine it will be the same with the wine. With that said, what was your OG, and how long did you age it for?

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JeremyCT

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I don't own a hydrometer.

I haven't aged yet. I just took a pint for "research" as I was bottling.
I've read a few suggestions on aging ranging from a couple months to a couple years. I'm going to try and leave this for a year. I've got five gallons more going right now, so that shouldn't be toooo hard. ha.

JeremyCT

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And speaking of weird soup, my girl made some bell pepper soup that was freaking great. Very similar to tomato.
I wonder how bell peppers would fare as booze.

sea2summit3

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Interesting. I just tried fermenting carrot juice cut with apple cider a couple weeks back and man it was weird! I bottled it anyways to see how it ages..Its probably a better idea to boil like you did. How much of a carrot taste did it end up with? I imagine your OG was pretty high w/ 2lb of sugar in one gallon! Carrot Beer?

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Teromous

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That's a neat idea. I juice carrots when I make health drinks but I've never fermented it. I thought it would be too soupy and strong. Boiling it sounds like a much better idea.