Well going to put another one down tommorow morning, FV is currently drip drying after a few hours meta bisulphating, and all assorted gear.
Going to be based off a Brigalow pack again. I have the Brigalow concentrate can 4 litres of apple, blackcurrant, raspberry and strawberry juice and 5 litres of apple and blackcurrant juice. I dont imagine that the extra fruit flavours will make a vast taste difference as the quantities are miniscule, but I'm hoping it might make a pretty red or purply coloured brew.
One question I have is; the brigalow can makes 18 litres, would it hurt to top it up to 20 litres or so with the juice instead of just replacing the water with said juice? I'd like to fill up the FV a little more.
Just out of interest I rang the 1800 number on the can today to see if I could find out what type of yeast is in the kit, had a brief conversation with a bloke on the other end of the phone and he said it was a wine type yeast, one other thing he was keen to let me know was that to make sure I bottle it at 1.000 to 1.004 so that it carbonates, apparently it will go down to .990 and if so wont carbonate as well or at all. Handy tip!
I'm thinking make up the kit, top up to 20 litres with juice and use 1.25 kg of Cane Sugar to biff up the booze level a little, got 9 litres of juice to go in with the can so I reckon 7 litres as water replacing body lifter and 2 for volume is a fair deal, any thoughts?
And then time to save up some coins and get me a press and a apple wrecker and head down the huon for some fresh apples and a have a crack at the "real thing". The kits will do me fine till then though, last one I bottled tasted fairly good, pretty good even, straight out of the FV, hope it stays pretty much the same, because it will be a fine drop with bubbles and 20 degrees less temp on it.
Cheers
Going to be based off a Brigalow pack again. I have the Brigalow concentrate can 4 litres of apple, blackcurrant, raspberry and strawberry juice and 5 litres of apple and blackcurrant juice. I dont imagine that the extra fruit flavours will make a vast taste difference as the quantities are miniscule, but I'm hoping it might make a pretty red or purply coloured brew.
One question I have is; the brigalow can makes 18 litres, would it hurt to top it up to 20 litres or so with the juice instead of just replacing the water with said juice? I'd like to fill up the FV a little more.
Just out of interest I rang the 1800 number on the can today to see if I could find out what type of yeast is in the kit, had a brief conversation with a bloke on the other end of the phone and he said it was a wine type yeast, one other thing he was keen to let me know was that to make sure I bottle it at 1.000 to 1.004 so that it carbonates, apparently it will go down to .990 and if so wont carbonate as well or at all. Handy tip!
I'm thinking make up the kit, top up to 20 litres with juice and use 1.25 kg of Cane Sugar to biff up the booze level a little, got 9 litres of juice to go in with the can so I reckon 7 litres as water replacing body lifter and 2 for volume is a fair deal, any thoughts?
And then time to save up some coins and get me a press and a apple wrecker and head down the huon for some fresh apples and a have a crack at the "real thing". The kits will do me fine till then though, last one I bottled tasted fairly good, pretty good even, straight out of the FV, hope it stays pretty much the same, because it will be a fine drop with bubbles and 20 degrees less temp on it.
Cheers