supermarket orange juice

Thought I should mention that my favorite chess opponent makes a sort of wine with the cheap supermarket house brands of orange juice that is real tasty. Sort of like a weak screwdriver... Ithink he just mixes up the concentrate and forgets to put it in the fridge, but I have tasted it many times.

any comments?

pk

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p k
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Theoretically, you can make almost anything into wine. Except marijuana; tried that back in '76.... ;-) Anyway, the Orange wine I've had was nothing to crow about; it was made at a professional winery in FLA.... I got orange, and tangerine. Neither impressed me.

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Bob

From Jack Keller's site under Orange Wine recipes:

Most certainly wine can be made from oranges. I have several recipes for orange wine, but will only cite the two below because the others are essentially variations on these two.

I have not tried the first recipe below, so cannot attest to it as being good or otherwise. But I have tried the second, and it makes a very good wine. I used very sweet Valencia oranges.

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Don S

I use frozen concentrates from the grocery story quite a often. You may not end up with an exquisite wine, but you can really work with them and tweak them and the results can be pretty tasty. I have 3 batches of wine fermenting and one of them has frozen juice concentrates used in it as the base. I just use stuff I can get at my local grocery store.

Batch 1 "Apple Raisin Wine") I mixed 3 frozen Apple juice, 2 lb. chopped raisins, 2 lb. sugar and a pinch of yeast in a plastic bucket. Then add water to just over 1 gal. total.

Batch 2 "Honey Raisin Wine") I mixed 3 lb. of honey, 1 lb. white raisins, 2 lb. sugar and a pinch of yeast in a plastic bucket. Then add water to just over 1 gal. total. This batch has been fermenting and bubbling like wild for 2 weeks now. The alcohol level has to be getting up there. I hope the yeast can survive the Alcohol enough to reduce most of the sugar.

Batch 3 "Sweet Lemon Tea Wine") I just made up this wine; not sure what it will taste like. I brewed up some STRONG black tea. Then, I pealed the yellow off of 4 large lemons with a potato pealer. I squeezed the 4 lemon's juice into the tea, added 2 lb. sugar, the yellow skin from the lemons I pealed off and 1 cup of chopped white raisins. I mixed it all in a plastic bucket then added water to just over 1 gal. total. Once it cooled to room temp. I added a pinch of yeast. I just started it last night, it should start fermenting today.

I leave the must in the bucket with a towel over it stiring once a day, until the fermentation slows (about 5 to 10 days normally). Then I siphon it into a gallon jug with a bubbler (you can make one with a thin hose sealed to the top of the jug and put the other end in a cup of water). I let it ferment until the bubbles slow to one every minute and a half or one every 2 minutes. Then I siphon it into bottles a cork. Or just drink it.

Yeast: you can use the dry yeast you get from the grocery store. I have used it, but the alcohol level is lower and you can taste the yeast. I bought a packet of dry yeast from a wine supply store. They always say to add 1/2 to

1 spoon of yeast to make your wine, but I just add a very small pinch. It seems to add a day, sometimes 1 day and a half, but then the fermenting just takes off. I have been using that small packet of yeast (intended for just one batch) for 2 years now. I just keep is sealed and in my kitchen refrigerator. Yes....... I am cheap!

Later, John

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FamilySailor

Here's a link to a discussion of "Hard Lemonade" made from cans of frozen lemonade. Sounds interesting. Gonna try it after we move.

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Steve

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Steve Waller

Aaaaawwww, now yer givin me ideas!

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Bob

"FamilySailor" wrote

This sounds intriguing; alcohol and caffeine at the same time.....

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Bob

Yes, decent wine can certainly be made from store bought citrus. I recomend that us use the frozen concentrate as it usually does not have any preservatives. I also recomend you use a good wine yeast and good wine making proceedures. ('Don't just forget to put it in the frig.)

Ray

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Ray Calvert

My first wine not from a kit (and not a mead) is a Valencia orange. It is fantastic!

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R-D-C

I'm glad =somebody= likes it; I bought two bottles in Florida three years ago and I was less than impressed. Of course, it was just $10 cheapo tourist crap....

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Bob

I just started a batch of oraange juice wine from grocery store (Premium juice was on sale) I can see why people use orange juice as a yeast starter. This batch went nuts for the first few days. Had to clean up 2 messes as it foamed over!!.

How much of the orange flavor survives fermentation? Guess I will find out when I rack this week.

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JD

Mine was hand squeezed. Took about five days just to start fermenting and nothing spectacular happened.

There is very little taste of orange but you can smell that they are there.

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R-D-C

My wife brought a bunch of oranges back from Fl last year. She squeezed about a gallon of juice and then promptly left on another unexpected trip. I could not let all that juice go bad so I made it into wine. Not bad at all. First time I have made orange wine.

Ray

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Ray Calvert

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