1987 Pear
September 2006 – This was the last pear wine I made. While I like pears to eat, the fruit is too bland to make a good wine.
Ingredients
| Fruit | 6-3/4# pears |
| Water | 1 quart |
| Sugar | 4 cups |
| Acid | 3 tsp acid blend |
| Nutrient | 1 tsp nutrient + 1/2 tsp energizer |
| Pectic Enzyme | 1 tsp |
| Sulphite | 1/4 tsp K-meta |
| Yeast | Epernay II |
Method
| Started | 09/03/1987 SG 1.115 |
| Yeast added | 09/05/1987 SG 1.115 |
| Strained | 09/20/1987 SG 1.000 |
| Racked | 09/27/1987 SG 0.998 |
| Racked | 12/06/1987 SG 0.988 |
| Filtered, #2 filter pad | 02/27/1988 SG 0.988 |
| Bottled | 05/29/1988 SG 0.988 |
Notes
| Yield | 4 bottles |
| Alcohol | 17.3% |
| Afterthoughts | I wasn’t particularly pleased with either pear wine I made. Quality was fine, but the flavor was blah, boring. It had nothing to entice me. Being rather bright, I stopped making it! 🙂 |
| October 2018 | I recently read a post on Wine Making Talk that stated pear is too bland to make a good wine. It appears I’m not alone in that assessment. |