Tinned Strawberry wine

[shirlthegirl43]

Taken from a brewing forum I belong to - thanks Bob for the recipe...


Tinned strawberry

1 15oz tin of strawberries
2 1/4 lb sugar
3 teaspoons citric acid
1/2 teaspoon tannin
1 tsp Pectolase
1 Vitamin B1 tablet or yeast energiser
Good quality yeast
Water to 1 gallon


Pour the syrup from the can into the primary fermenter, liquidise or mash the fruit with a potato masher
Boil 4 pints of water and dissolve the sugar in it, allow to cool to 70 degrees F, place fruit pulp into primary and pour over the sugar syrup.
Add water to 1 gallon, add the acid, tannin, pectolase, yeast energiser and yeast, leave enough room for a head to form during ferment and fit airlock
stir daily, when S.G. reaches 1.010 rack into a clean demijohn, leaving the sediment behind, top up with cooled boiled water.

ferment till finished, racking and bottling as normal.

My particular batch of strawberry wine was made with 2 X 411g tins of strawberries to the gallon (approx 20oz)


* SG to start should be 1.09, finishing at 0.99 will give approx 12% wine.

[diana]

would you like to share the forum with us Shirley?

[shirlthegirl43]

would you like to share the forum with us Shirley?

If a moderator gives me the okay then I will do so.

[hypnophil]

Hi Shirley,
Sounds great, I am gonna try it.
Couple of Q's, how much yeast do i add and approx how long from start to bottling, and can it be drank once bottled or does it need to mature?
Apologies if these are silly questions.

[SarzWix]

Go ahead Shirley, it's a dedicated brewing forum isn't it? Shouldn't be a problem

[shirlthegirl43]

Cheers Sarah (somehow appropriate eh?).

The brewing forum can be found at:

Wines at Home

quite a helpful bunch and some very useful tips and recipes.

[diana]

Thank you Shirley great forum

[shirlthegirl43]

Indeed so, nearly as good as this one

[diana]

My thoughts entirely

[hypnophil]

Hi Shirl,
How important is the tannin, and where can i get it?
Thanks

[shirlthegirl43]

Tannin gives body to the wine. I wouldn't leave it out. I get mine from Wilkinsons

[hypnophil]

Thanks, my local wilko didnt have any, will a chemist or boots have it?

[pdblake]

You can use cold tea as tannin can't you?

[hypnophil]

i was thinking about adding a teabag, but maybe a strong cup of tea??

[shirlthegirl43]

Thanks, my local wilko didnt have any, will a chemist or boots have it?

You can use cold tea as tannin can't you?

i was thinking about adding a teabag, but maybe a strong cup of tea??

Not sure if Boots would have it - try ebay? I think you can use cold tea but I wouldn't have a clue as to how strong or how much sorry.