Having found a sale on strawberries last week, I was inspired to make a strawberry wine / mead.
I read through a few of the strawberry wine (berries + sugar) and mead (berries + honey) recipes on here, since I already have so much mead in stock, I decided to do a hybrid of sorts. Brown sugar for complexity and boosting OG, honey for body and mouthfeel, and straberries for flavour.
I made the following recipe this afternoon;
5 kg strawberries (trimmed, frozen, thawed + mashed)
3 kg light brown sugar
4.5 kg honey
20 L water
5 tsp nutrient
5 tsp pectine
5 campden tablets
4 tsp lemon juice
2x 5g EC1118
The honey, sugar, lemon juice and nutrient were boiled. Strawberries were added to the primary (bucket), pectine was mixed in, and the honey/sugar must was added (1L reserved for a starter) Campden was added a few hours later.
Currently the must is "resting", allowing the pectine to get a head start, and proofing the starter. Although there are a lot of suspended solids, the measured OG is 1.075, hoping for a gentle table wine. Later tonight I will pitch the starter.
Right now it smells *amazing*, hope not too much of the flavor is lost in the primary.
I read through a few of the strawberry wine (berries + sugar) and mead (berries + honey) recipes on here, since I already have so much mead in stock, I decided to do a hybrid of sorts. Brown sugar for complexity and boosting OG, honey for body and mouthfeel, and straberries for flavour.
I made the following recipe this afternoon;
5 kg strawberries (trimmed, frozen, thawed + mashed)
3 kg light brown sugar
4.5 kg honey
20 L water
5 tsp nutrient
5 tsp pectine
5 campden tablets
4 tsp lemon juice
2x 5g EC1118
The honey, sugar, lemon juice and nutrient were boiled. Strawberries were added to the primary (bucket), pectine was mixed in, and the honey/sugar must was added (1L reserved for a starter) Campden was added a few hours later.
Currently the must is "resting", allowing the pectine to get a head start, and proofing the starter. Although there are a lot of suspended solids, the measured OG is 1.075, hoping for a gentle table wine. Later tonight I will pitch the starter.
Right now it smells *amazing*, hope not too much of the flavor is lost in the primary.