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Pears and Juice Amount

I am planning on making some Pear wine this year. Does anyone know the approximate juice yield for pears. I know that most recipes I have seen call for either four or five pounds of pears per gallon and about 6 or 7 pints of water per gallon so I am assuming that the yield is somewhere around a quart or maybe less per 5 pounds of fruit. I am planning on using the hard cooking type of pear.

If anyone has some award winning recipe(s), I would appreciate this also. I have already looked at Jack's site.

About 30 years ago I made a dry pear wine from some VERY hard pears and it turned out excellent. Of course, I don't remember just what all I did but I do remember that I just cut up the pears and fermented on the pulp - which I guess most people don't recommend.

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Paul E. Lehmann
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I think you should be able to get about 50% juice by weight from pears if you shred or grate them, and then press them. That would be more than a quart per 5 pounds, but a lot less than 2 quarts. Do you have access to a cider press?

Bob

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zxcvbob

No, I do not have a cider press, just a wine press and I don't think it would work for pears.

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Paul E. Lehmann

Check your local orchards to see if you can get the juice. One near us does this twice or sometimes 3 times a year around spring ( I think they use up the old ones that went unsold or were starting to get soft) Last year I bought it for $2.25 a gallon,(could'nt believe that part either) no muss, no fuss, makes excellent wine. If you find it as such, make sure you check it's sugar content before following anyones recipe as this stuff checked at 7% BEFORE I added any sugar. Good luck.

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PA-ter

I pressed 2 bushells (about 85 pounds) by hand this fall and netted 5 gallons of juice.

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J F

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