brewing 2ne1
A log on homebrewing by a band of merry persons.
Cherry Adventures #4
Racked the Wild Cherry Wine. Still tastes pretty bitter and sour. Not sure how it’ll turn out. Might need sweetening before bottling.
Racked the Cemecherry Wine. No bitter flavour and a little sour. Again, might sweeten before bottling.
Strained and filtered the Cherry Beer into a demijohn. Tasted promising although the cherry is quite dominating.
Dylski
Cherry Adventures #3
Bottled the 2 litres of cherry beer. Tasted promising.
Added 2 litres of homebrew beer to the very cherry beer as it was very cherry. And pretty tart. Also added 125g glucose too for an extra fermentation. Now sitting with all the cherries still in. Still very cherry. Still tart.
Dylski
Cherry Adventures #2
2.5kg sour but plump and some fairly sweet cherries with 2l homebrew beer and 125g sugar (glucose). Tastes very cherry. Might add another 2l homebrew and another 125g sugar after this has brewed depending on how it tastes. Racked the previous cherry beer adventure.
Dylski
After 3 days in the bucket and a couple of weeks in the bottle, the Rhubarb champagne is ready for the tasting.
Note: I had left a good gap of air to allow for a decent amount of compression - better than exploding bottles. I bled off the gas after the first couple of days - thing went off like a rocket, hence even more of a gap:)
/Mikey
Wild Cherry Wine 2010
Three Galleons racked into Demijons. New syphoning kit worked a treat. (Still have to perfect though!) Looks like pink Grapefruit juice! Tastes like sweet cherry, and I can taste the alcohol coming through.
SG is 1020 started at 1080
calc 60 / 7.36 = 8.15%
Nicely bubbling away! Have to rack in 3 weeks!
Marcus
Cherry Adventures #1
Racked the wild cherry wine. A bit sour with a bit of a bitter taste. Rather rough but then there’s a year to go for it to mellow so we’ll see.
Mixed some of the wild cherry excess with homebrewed beer in the bottle on the left.
On the right is going to be another experiment:
2.5lbs cherries crushed, stoned and mixed with a bit under 2 litres of homebrew beer. Going to see if it ferments again to get a very cherry beer. Added ~125g sugar to push up the alcohol content. Not exactly sure what it currently is but my estimation is that the beer is ~4% and going by the cunning sugar-alcohol equation 125g should add around 3%.
Dylski
CemeCherry Wine (Cherry Wine)
Fat cherries from the cemetary. Stoned (the cherries), crushed and poured a gallon of water onto them.
Dylski
Rhubarb champagne on its way
Little half moons of deliciousness!
Started the brew Sunday evening, will bottle tonight (3days).
/Mikey
Wild Cherry Wine 2010. Three days later with the cherries sitting in water 4 campden tablets and pectin enzyme. The cherries look bleached out. Smells like kirsh, very almondy.
I squeezed the cherries through a muslin. And topped up with water to 3 gallons.
Also added
6tsps Acid Blend
3tsps Yeast Nutrient
7.5lbs Sugar
1.5tsps Pectin Enzyme
0.75tsps Grape Tannin
1 packet of yeast
Measured the SG at 1.080 Left to ferment in the primary tub for the next 5 days
Marcus
Wild Cherry Wine. Working to last years recipe but 3 times the quantity. As last years was so good and there has been a bumper crop of cherries!
Marcus
