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Way to go HB! Now you need to author a new thread on date wines and rename yourself the Bahrain Kid! Your wife can be the Manama Mama!

Well done Jon. If the wife likes it, you passed the test. Day 39 hmmm. It's a light mango wine like I said before. You could double up the mangos next time. But if it's good now, success! It may not get much drier. I use a sanitized hydrometer on a 2 lbs. test fishing line to get readings...

One of my favorite threads. My wife is going to make me some on her benchtop thread injector. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f256/diy-carboy-hauler-men-afraid-sew-508000/.

It's looking nice and clear right now Jon. Good job! Let it quit bubbling and it will settle well. Nice job! Like your carboy hauler too.

HB what is your airlock activity? Is it still bubbling? My batch was transferred to a secondary after 6 days and the bubbling had basically stopped. I had used a vigorously activated yeast to a must with nutrients added and did staggered nutrient additions so this wine went dry very quickly...

On my mango wine I dialed in the O.G. at 1.080 so when it came to Final Gravity I'd have about a 12% ABV wine. I used 1 1/4 tsp Potassium Bicarbonate (KHCO3) and 3 tsps yeast nutrient at must creation to make sure everything got off to a good start. I added 2 1/4 tsp of Fermaid K and 2 tsp DAP...

I started my batch in mid September. Going to rack it soon again. Looking to stabilize it and backsweeten and bottle by mid April. Daughter is getting married in October so I want to have 15-20 bottles by then. I have 12 gallons of pear wine to be ready and bottled by then too.

I used about 16 lbs. of fresh ripe mangos for 4 gallons of mango wine. After cutting up the mangos it yielded over 12 lbs. So that's like 7.25 kilos to yield 5.4 kilos to make 4 gallons of wine. I placed the cut up mango flesh in a big nylon bag in my primary fermenter. So I have to figure...

I have 3 gallons of the mango wine in my 3 gallon carboy. This has cleared nicely at 9 weeks. I have another gallon in a gallon jug which is not quite as clear. But really I didn't have much pulp at all when I used cut up mangos instead of canned mango pulp. I also used six overripe bananas...

I used cut up mangos, about 12 lbs. for 4 gallons, and I got very little pulp to rack off of. So I've got four gallons of mango wine clearing nicely at nine weeks. I used ICV-D47 and with good nutrient additions that wine went dry in a matter of days. I'm looking forward to see how this results.

MadWilliam - how did it turn out? I'm trying to adjust this recipe to use real mangos. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I got bad news Yoop. My wife and I moved to San Jose CA from Milwaukee. I can't visit and get any chokecherries! I did like your recent write up though. Keep up the winemaking!

That sounds great FF500. You have to keep that pretty lady happy and well stocked. You may want to consider producing several batches a month for straight up Mango Pulp wine and for blends. She deserves only the best and now she knows you can make it. You've really set up her expectations...

Did you do anything different with this second batch FF500? I have to get a batch going myself. I'm using white grape concentrate in mine.

You can add tannin later in the process, even prior to bottling if you figure you need it for taste.

Two months from starting the batch to bottling. You sure don't mess around FF500. If you started a batch every three months you'd have fun and a very good supply. Glad to hear you had a great result. Age and enjoy!

That would be a good plan yes.

Well done FF500. It looks like you had a beautiful result!

My local supermarket in West Milwaukee has a number of good ethnic aisles and the Swad Kesar Mango Pulp is regularly priced at $2.39 for a 30 oz. can. They had another brand (Peep) for $1.50 a can on sale except the cans were all dented. I got the Swad Kesar Mango Pulp. Still really reasonable.

That's the way to do it. It's looking real good. Everyone take note. Caring for your yeast speeds your batch's fermentation and gives you a good Mango Pulp wine much sooner. Great job FF500! You're the man!