Great call on the yeast. I use frozen fruit of wines and meads all the time, as you point out the freezing of the fruit breaks down the cell walls. I have to admit that I have frozen fresh fruit for the same reason. Also I have a soft spot for strawberries :-)
hey, frozen fruits does make it alot easier to brew with, usually food providers freeze the very ripe fruits which is another bonus for home brewing as they have more flavors :D it is amazing how changing the yeast affects the flavors, I like a red wine yeast for alot of things, cider is interesting as well. :)
I like using red wine yeast in fruit wine, and champagne yeast in meads. I am thinking about brewing a mead with distilling yeast simple to see what I get as far as flavor and ABV.
the red yeast does give fruit an extra edge, amusingly i tested ale yeast for meads and I quite like it :) it would be an interesting little experiment turbo mead :D
I did exactly as yo suggested here and we had 4 bottles of excellent strawberry wine in no time flat! Sadly it didn't last long. It didn't go off but like me it got very drunk! 🍷👍🏼
Hey, it may do, I usually grate and squeeze as it's pretty fiberous but you can add the spent pulp to things to give a slight ginger hint. I guess there is only one way to find out :)
Just made some frozen strawberry wine this afternoon with strawberry’s from my allotment How long will it be before bottling and actually drinking the wine?
very nice, fresh home grown strawberries do make excellent home brew. in total it should take 4-5 weeks, it depends on when it clears, as soon as it does, you can back sweeten , chill and serve. got to love quick brewing wines :)
that's up to you, in the 2nd part i did it with real sugar but you need to keep it chilled if you do. sweetener works and doesn't need to be kept chilled but the taste isn't as good in my opinion.
Can I use a juicer and ferment 100% strawberry juice. My juicer is a masticating juicer. I was thinking of buying about 30 or 40 lbs of strawberries and fermenting 100% strawberry juice. And putting g the pulp in a bag and fermenting g with the juice. Any feedback would be appreciated. I've never made any type of wine before.
hey, you can use a 100% juice to make wine, brewing it on the pulp will also give you alot more flavors . It makes the very best fruit wines. it's also ridiculously expensive 40lbs of strawberries juiced may not even yield 1 gallon. if it's your 1st attempt of home brewing I personally would start out with a simpler recipe / cheaper recipe that way if something does go wrong, your not going to have lost a whole bunch of money. try this one, its straight forward and you can do a dry run for cheap. you can always add more a couple of extra lbs of strawberries and you will be surprised how good it tastes :)
I live in texas. Strawberries here are sold in 2lb and 5lb plastic containers. I believe 5 lbs are about 4.50. I can probably get frozen for cheaper I believe. Your saying I could add 100% juice to the frozen must. With the pulp for more flavor. I would like to make about 10 750 ml bottles. What ratio would you reccomend?
that part is up to you, the recipe on it's own gives a good fresh strawberry flavor and a nice color too. the more you add the more flavor there will be but the cost will go up too. :)
Thank you for your easy explanation, and I am happy that there is a way to make wine with bread yeast, so you can imagine that wine yeast is banned in our country and whoever tries to buy it through the internet will be put in jail 😭
hey, glad you found the video helpful :) funny enough I had alot of questions about brewing alcohol from bread yeast from people in countries where wine yeast was illegal. I caved and started the series from that. :) if all goes well by the end of the month, the series will be changed to brewing with wild yeast :)
I'm excited to try making this after I get some of the supplies! 🥂
Great call on the yeast. I use frozen fruit of wines and meads all the time, as you point out the freezing of the fruit breaks down the cell walls. I have to admit that I have frozen fresh fruit for the same reason. Also I have a soft spot for strawberries :-)
hey, frozen fruits does make it alot easier to brew with, usually food providers freeze the very ripe fruits which is another bonus for home brewing as they have more flavors :D it is amazing how changing the yeast affects the flavors, I like a red wine yeast for alot of things, cider is interesting as well. :)
I like using red wine yeast in fruit wine, and champagne yeast in meads. I am thinking about brewing a mead with distilling yeast simple to see what I get as far as flavor and ABV.
the red yeast does give fruit an extra edge, amusingly i tested ale yeast for meads and I quite like it :) it would be an interesting little experiment turbo mead :D
I did exactly as yo suggested here and we had 4 bottles of excellent strawberry wine in no time flat! Sadly it didn't last long. It didn't go off but like me it got very drunk! 🍷👍🏼
I find the I have exactly the same problem 😅 glad it helped.
Thanks for your words of wisdom
glad you find them useful :P
Would the process/ measurement s be the same for other frozen fruits, such as blueberries?
Would freezing root ginger help get more flavour too ya recon ?
Hey, it may do, I usually grate and squeeze as it's pretty fiberous but you can add the spent pulp to things to give a slight ginger hint. I guess there is only one way to find out :)
Just made some frozen strawberry wine this afternoon with strawberry’s from my allotment
How long will it be before bottling and actually drinking the wine?
very nice, fresh home grown strawberries do make excellent home brew.
in total it should take 4-5 weeks, it depends on when it clears, as soon as it does, you can back sweeten , chill and serve. got to love quick brewing wines :)
Sorry man but how do you filter the pulp out
Do you back sweeten with sugar or sweeteners
that's up to you, in the 2nd part i did it with real sugar but you need to keep it chilled if you do. sweetener works and doesn't need to be kept chilled but the taste isn't as good in my opinion.
Can I use a juicer and ferment 100% strawberry juice. My juicer is a masticating juicer. I was thinking of buying about 30 or 40 lbs of strawberries and fermenting 100% strawberry juice. And putting g the pulp in a bag and fermenting g with the juice. Any feedback would be appreciated. I've never made any type of wine before.
hey,
you can use a 100% juice to make wine, brewing it on the pulp will also give you alot more flavors . It makes the very best fruit wines.
it's also ridiculously expensive 40lbs of strawberries juiced may not even yield 1 gallon.
if it's your 1st attempt of home brewing I personally would start out with a simpler recipe / cheaper recipe that way if something does go wrong, your not going to have lost a whole bunch of money.
try this one, its straight forward and you can do a dry run for cheap.
you can always add more a couple of extra lbs of strawberries and you will be surprised how good it tastes :)
I live in texas. Strawberries here are sold in 2lb and 5lb plastic containers. I believe 5 lbs are about 4.50. I can probably get frozen for cheaper I believe. Your saying I could add 100% juice to the frozen must. With the pulp for more flavor. I would like to make about 10 750 ml bottles. What ratio would you reccomend?
that part is up to you, the recipe on it's own gives a good fresh strawberry flavor and a nice color too. the more you add the more flavor there will be but the cost will go up too. :)
Thank you for your easy explanation, and I am happy that there is a way to make wine with bread yeast, so you can imagine that wine yeast is banned in our country and whoever tries to buy it through the internet will be put in jail 😭
hey, glad you found the video helpful :) funny enough I had alot of questions about brewing alcohol from bread yeast from people in countries where wine yeast was illegal. I caved and started the series from that. :) if all goes well by the end of the month, the series will be changed to brewing with wild yeast :)
making homebrew wild and cheap thank u very much
:)
Shouldn't use a blender, it grinds up the seeds which makes wine bitter.
Well that's odd since this is an old video, it tasted great.