Re: making wine from grape juice....from ASDA.

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.

You should look at the Home Beer and Winemaking Forum here

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That WOW - Wurzels orange wine - is easy to make and ferments well, very well. I do 4 gallons at a time.

It uses 1ltr each of grape juice and orange juice and 1.5 lb of sugar/gal plus odds and sods. It's about 12 - 13% as per recipe. Guess you could use 2 ltrs of grape and exclude the orange.

I use 1lb sugar/gal and it ends up about 10%ABV ( SG about 1070 ) and less than 35p per bottle to make at Tesco's prices of £2 per 3 litres of grape or orange..

The link above is not the main thread on that forum for WOW.

Have a search for it and read it - it's worth the trouble.

B