making wine from grape juice....from ASDA.

Jun 12, 2010 2 Replies

Hi everyone, I remember sometime fairly recently someone asking about fermenting pure grape juice. Well I'm just about to try substituting the normal concentrated grape juice with ASDAs own brand of drinking juice [1]. I've been moved in this direction by my local wine/beer making supplier who has stopped stocking the Youngs conc. grape juice in the



250 ml tins where he charged me £2.50 and now has changed to another supplier and wants to charge me £3.90! Bugger that I thought. So I've bought the ASDA brand of grape drinking juice having checked the ingredients label first to make sure there's only juice and nothing else. It also states the the grapes are from Spain. I've just measured the S.G. which is 1070 and I'm going to make peach wine with a litre of ASDA sustituted. I've just though....why don't I ferment a gallon of ASDAs juice? Five quid for a gallon of wine? Surely can't be too bad.

Right, I'm off to the kitchen and hopefully I'll have it done before the England/USA footie match comes on :-)



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McK.


250 ml tins where he charged me £2.50 and now has changed to another supplier and wants to charge me £3.90! Bugger that I thought. So I've bought the ASDA brand of grape drinking juice having checked the ingredients label first to make sure there's only juice and nothing else. It also states the the grapes are from Spain. I've just measured the S.G. which is 1070 and I'm going to make peach wine with a litre of ASDA sustituted. I've just though....why don't I ferment a gallon of ASDAs juice? Five quid for a gallon of wine? Surely can't be too bad.

Right, I'm off to the kitchen and hopefully I'll have it done before the England/USA footie match comes on :-)

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McK.

Yes, I've done it, and it comes out ok, although not wonderful.... useful drinking plonk.

Don't forget the cost of any additional sugar, acid, yeast, nutrients, etc. However, it still works out cheap!

Go for it - can't go wrong at this price, even if you have to use it for cooking!

Barb

Yup it still works out cheaper than fruit wine and certainly cheaper than cheap shop drinking plonk. I'll give it a go this weekend.

Cheers McKevvy

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