Concentrates

I experimented with a one gallon batch or Harris-Teeter frozen apple juice concentrate. I started it about a 6 weeks ago and it is now aging and clearing. It took a pretty long time to ferment out all the sugar. about 3 weeks. At times I thought is had stalled but after a week the sugar would be lower still.

Anyway. It doesn't have much of a taste right now. It doesn't taste bad, it is very smooth with no bite, no sourness and it's a tiny tiny tiny bit sweet.

I think that with age it may developed some flavor. When it was fermenting and the specific gravity was at 1020 from 1095, I tasted it. It tasted pretty good as a carbonated sweet apple cider I guess you would call it.

I am considering carbonating and sweating half of it and bottling the other half still.

I also tried Welch's Cocktail but it didn't turn out so well. But, as I said in another post it was because I used cocktail and not concord. I have recently tried it again with concord and it is much better.

David

You can make some very interesting & good wines from frozen concentrates. I have used Welch's and Old Orchard blends with very good results. They are balanced already, and most of my friends like them. One word of caution; over the past 4 years which I have used these, I have noticed that they can stick on occasion. I have gone to adding yeast nutrient to each batch, and fermenting in a fermentation bucket. Since I have done that, I have not had a batch stick. My favorites are apple-cherry, apple, strawberry-apple-kiwi, apple raspberry, and a few more. They taste good with an 11-12% alcohol level, and if you can wait, they taste very, very good at 1 year or older. I have used frozen fruit from the frozen section to make wine when I cannot get the actual fruit, and had very good results too. Darlene

Last year I made Sav. Blank and Chardonnay from fresh juice I picked up at the winery. I also made my first batch of Welch's Niagara. I liked the Welch's best of the 3. Very nice young. I recommend drinking it between 3 and 9 months.

But feel free to experiment with other frozen concentrates. Some work and other do not. Darleen seems to have a lot of experience with these and visit Jack Keller's site.

Ray

I'd try anything that didn't have preservatives in it that sounds good to you. Winemaking is one hobby that is all about what =you= like and the heck with everybody else!!!!