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Siiw

Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1268 Location: Bod, Norway
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject: Siiw's Brewing Log |
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These hot summer days will be an excellent occasion for doing something that requires some heat...namely wine brewing. The last attempt at brewing tropical fruit wine was ruined by a flood incident in my old apartment...it is time to try again.
Siiw needs:
-A 25 liters closeable plastic container
-A "yeast lock"
-Wine yeast
-Various fruit
and of course a few months. I am really looking forward to starting with this. |
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Siiw

Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1268 Location: Bod, Norway
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 1:08 am Post subject: |
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The plastic container has finally been found in my parents' house. In the mean time, this is brewing in my kitchen:
In a few weeks, this will hopefully be tasty green apple liquour! |
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Slinking_Ferret
Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 1
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:40 am Post subject: |
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Slinking_Ferret has minor knowledge of brewing,
Lets see...You need bacteria...sugar...
Well you definitely have the sugar (Apples have plenty of it) and I assume you added the yeast/whateveryouaddthatcreatestheactualalchohol so we can check that....
Hard part will be distilling it, I would use a pot distiller because it tends to retain most of the flavor of the mash (Or so I hear).
Anyways, good luck and I hope it is palatable.
http://www.moonshine-still.com/
 ^ Great site where I learned a lot about stills.
http://www.moonshine-still.com/page5.htm
Pot still |
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Siiw

Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1268 Location: Bod, Norway
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:39 am Post subject: |
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the good thing with this kind of recipe is that it doesn't need to be distilled the fruit is soaked in strong alcohol, and only needs to be strained later before i add extra sugar. the alcohol in the mix forces the juice out of the fruit. |
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Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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Both my mother and my sister-in-law have now started fruit wines. They are running a competition on who gets the strongest wine...so my father and me will also join it. |
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Siiw

Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1268 Location: Bod, Norway
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Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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oops that was me  |
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Siiw

Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1268 Location: Bod, Norway
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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The alcohol has now sucked most of the juice out of the fruit. It might even be ready while FiXato is here  |
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Siiw

Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1268 Location: Bod, Norway
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:07 am Post subject: |
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We started a Peach Quick Wine kit today. Reading through the list of ingredients showed that it contained a minimal amount of fruit, and artificial aroma! So, we added the following:
-500 g of green grapes
-Two green apples
The instructions say that the wine could finish fermenting in as little as one week. We will see how that goes.
As for the liquour, it seems to be done now. We only need something to strain it properly with before adding sugar and eventual citric acid. |
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Siiw

Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1268 Location: Bod, Norway
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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*blopp* yes, it is certainly fermenting.  |
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Siiw

Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1268 Location: Bod, Norway
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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The liquour was strained today, sugar was added and it looks and tastes well! |
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Siiw

Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1268 Location: Bod, Norway
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Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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Another kg of sugar was added to the wine today. |
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FiXato

Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Netherlands, the
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 9:51 am Post subject: |
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Pics! We want pics!
too bad I didn't really get time to test that liquor  _________________
どんな に 胸 が 痛くても そば にいる の~ chobits |
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Siiw

Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1268 Location: Bod, Norway
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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The fruit was removed from the wine today, and some extra sugar added even if that isn't in the recipe. Removing fruit from wine is a messy job, it has to be strained through cloth. To get as much juice as possible out of the fruit, it has to be twisted just like wet laundry.
I forgot to take a pic...but the wine is getting a pleasant orange-yellow colour. I added some peaches to it earlier which weren't in the recipe earlier, maybe those are responsible  |
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FiXato

Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Netherlands, the
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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*bloooop* _________________
どんな に 胸 が 痛くても そば にいる の~ chobits |
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Siiw

Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 1268 Location: Bod, Norway
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Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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The wine has stopped fermenting and has cleared well. Now it only has to be siphoned into another wine balloon before it is finished in theory. Of course, wine will always taste better after some rest. |
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