1985 Rhubarb
October 2018
I suspect this was an attempt to reproduce my first batch of wine … along with the fact that our neighbor had a huge rhubarb patch that was mostly unused, and we had free use of it.
I wonder why I’d want to reproduce that first batch. 🙂
Ingredients
| Fruit | 12# rhubarb |
| Water | 5 gallons |
| Sugar | 24 cups |
| Sulfite | 5 Campden tablets |
| Acid | 2-1/2 tsp citric acid |
| Yeast Nutrient | 2-1/2 tsp nutrient + 1 tsp energizer |
| Yeast | Red Star Epernay II |
Method
| Started | 06/01/1985 SG 1.084 |
| Yeast added | 06/03/1985 SG 1.084 |
| Strained | 06/10/1985 SG 1.030 |
| Racked | 06/23/1985 SG 0.990 |
| Racked | 08/17/1985 SG 0.988 |
| Bottled | 08/17/1985 SG 0.988 |
Notes
| Yield | 28 bottles |
| Yield | 12.8% |
| Afterthoughts | I think this wine convinced me to not make rhubarb wine any more. It came out ok, but compared to most everything else I made during this period it was marginal. |