[thedadtony]

Just opened the raspberry syrup wine I bottled a fortnight ago, Yes! Yes! Yes!
   It's great.

[Auntiemogs]

Recipe? 

[finleyfreyaseth]

deffo recipe 

[thedadtony]

Hi, the same as W.O.W' but instead of orange juice use one bottle of Polish raspberry syrup (Tesco's) and one litre of red grape juice, I used 1 lb 3 ozs. of sugar,( s.g. was 1.090 and went down to o.988) and Youngs wine yeast, as you can see it went really dry but it tastes that fruity you don't notice. Hope that helps.

[New shoot]

What volume is the raspberry syrup bottle please Tony?

When I make raspberry vodka, I layer raspberries and sugar in a demijohn, ferment for 6 weeks, then strain and mix with vodka.   Found 2 tubs of the fermented syrup lurking in the freezer when I defrosted it yesterday and I still have vodka left, so thinking your wine recipe might be perfect 

[Lardman]

If it's the same stuff I have here, it's 440ml.

I've been meaning to try that for over a year ... which is when I bought these 2 bottles   

[New shoot]

Thank you   

Red grape juice going on shopping list right now 

[thedadtony]

Thanks for answering for me Lardman I've been to Filey for a couple of days, cheers.

[New shoot]

Red grape juice aquired, so starting the brew today   

[Lardman]

Im putting a DJ of it on too. I found some RGJ under the stairs best before Aug 14th (2012) but it smells and tastes ok to me 


Just waiting to see if there's any life in the last ½ packet of yeast I've got otherwise I'll be fishing the slops out of the 5 Gallons of Wow 

[thedadtony]

Commendable Lardman, I've used recycled yeast in my cider making.

[New shoot]

Still at the bubble, bubble, toil and trouble stage, but looking promising 



Has calmed down a bit so just topped it up.  Smelling very yeasty, but can detect the rasps in there as well. 

Does this become drinkable as quickly as WOW?  Not sure I want to wait too long given the rave reviews   

[Lardman]

I found the red WoW style takes a little longer to drop the sharpness than the white.  I wont be hanging around waiting for mine to mature 

[New shoot]

I wont be hanging around waiting for mine to mature 

Not sure I would be able to    I made rhubarb and raspberry wine one year with red grape juice and fresh rasps.  It was way too nice for its own good 

[thedadtony]

1 gallon gone all ready, I boxed the other one, I'll have to rearrange the fridge to squeeze it in, there goes the out of date stuff I was saving for a special occasion,
  P.S. must go shopping tomorrow for...............