Another prickly pear

[oogaboogachiefwalkingdeer]

Racked off the one I put in primary around Thanksgiving and didn't end up needing much juice for topping up So, I took what I had left and made round two.
15 lbs tunas
1 1/2 gallon Pomegranate Plus 100 percent juice
1 1/2 gallons welch grape 100 percent
1/2 gallon cranberry 100 percent
1 gallon blueberrry pom 100 percent
8 lb sugar
nutrient
energizer pectic enzyme tannin
1118 lalvin
sg 1095
6 1/2 gallons
Added a couple pounds of blueberries and some blackberries too.

 

[estricklin]

It's alive!!

 

[Jericurl]

It'll be interesting to hear how the prickly pear flavor will fare when paired with the other fruits.

How is your other batch coming along?

Mine is still quite green/hay tasting, though I am aging it for awhile before I backsweeten.

 

[oogaboogachiefwalkingdeer]

It probably will be like a fruit cocktail not any one flavor. It smells really good fermenting. My first batch finished out all the way dry and taste pretty good. Lot of fruit flavor not sure which kind but similar to blackberry or maybe raspberry. Added sorbate ctabs and 2 cups sugar. Sit it back in the closet till next racking. I have high hopes for both batchs. Mike

 

[Oneoffcustom]

Whats the 15lbs tunas?


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[NivekD]

Whats the 15lbs tunas?

Prickly Pear fruit is called a tuna.

 

[jensmith]

Aww, darn! I just got 15# of tuna fish!!!!

 

[oogaboogachiefwalkingdeer]

Racked today thru a clean cotton flour cloth and got a full five gal carboy and a magnum wine bottle full with airlocks. Gravity was 1020 this morning and it is going nicely in the glass. No fish smell what so ever<gg>.