A- It's actually a wine we're making from red currants we picked in my father-in-law's garden here. We finished with primary fermentation (in a bigger 30 liter bucket) this week. We were done straining out the solids and adding additional sugar for the yeast to eat in the longer process of secondary fermentation so they can produce more alcohol, and we had just moved the wine over to a glass carboy. It's always a good idea to check that everything tastes as it should at this point, and we had a little left over in the bucket, so that's when Inki took the picture. Basically right now it tastes like the sweetest fruit juice ever but has quite a kick already. With the baby coming, we thought it best to get our current wine projects over into carboys where they can sit on their own for a bit while we're figuring out this parenting thing. We're also making a larger batch of apple wine which is in primary fermentation right now. Cheers!
Dana - You don't pasteurize wine; you add crushed sulfur tablets to stop other things from growing in your fermenting wine. You can flash-pasteurize beer, but not wine
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A-
It's actually a wine we're making from red currants we picked in my father-in-law's garden here. We finished with primary fermentation (in a bigger 30 liter bucket) this week. We were done straining out the solids and adding additional sugar for the yeast to eat in the longer process of secondary fermentation so they can produce more alcohol, and we had just moved the wine over to a glass carboy. It's always a good idea to check that everything tastes as it should at this point, and we had a little left over in the bucket, so that's when Inki took the picture.
Basically right now it tastes like the sweetest fruit juice ever but has quite a kick already.
With the baby coming, we thought it best to get our current wine projects over into carboys where they can sit on their own for a bit while we're figuring out this parenting thing. We're also making a larger batch of apple wine which is in primary fermentation right now.
Cheers!
-R
Very cool. I have always wanted to make homemade wine. How do you pastrurize it??
Dana
hahaha...that brightened my day. really.
-julia
Dana -
You don't pasteurize wine; you add crushed sulfur tablets to stop other things from growing in your fermenting wine. You can flash-pasteurize beer, but not wine
Julia -
Glad to oblige.
-R
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