1985 OceanSpray CranRaspberry
October 2018 – This wine was far from being a classy wine. But it was delicious and the five bottles I got from the batch got wiped out in short order. Aging wine was letting it set for 3 months after bottling.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. High quality or not, it pleased my friends and was a success.
Ingredients
| Fruit | two 1-1/2 quart bottles Ocean Spray CranRaspberry |
| Water | 2 quarts |
| Sugar | 4 cups |
| Acid | 1/2 tsp citric acid |
| Nutrient | 1/2 tsp yeast nutrient + 1/2 tsp energizer |
| Yeast | Red Star Flor Sherry |
Method
| Started | 05/13/1985 SG 1.105 |
| Racked | 05/24/1985 SG 1.082 |
| Racked | 05/30/1985 SG 1.075 |
| Racked | 06/23/1985 SG 1.060 |
| Racked | 07/09/1985 SG 1.052 |
| Racked | 08/22/1985 SG 1.052 |
| Racked | 05/16/1986 SG 1.014 |
| Bottled | 05/19/1986 SG 1.014 |
Notes
| Yield | 5 bottles |
| Alcohol | 12.4% |
| Afterthoughts | This started perking along quite well, and then just quit. I figured that it had to do with whatever preservatives were in the juice, stuck it in a corner and forgot about for more than 6 months. I was going to toss it, but checked the SG anyway and tasted it.
This was an early lesson that making less than 5 gallons of any batch is a waste of time! While quite sweet, this wine was a real pleaser. Five bottles didn’t last long … |