Recipe: Passion Fruit Quickie

First of all humble apologies. I've had a very busy year, so not only have i neglected my blogging duties but i've also slacked with the brewing! True, i had a very promising June with 20 gallons of Elderflower quickie versions (and i've written the last two up now ... here and here, and written a comparison of the 4 different brews). Since then i've brewed nothing until a week ago. And i realised that if i wanted to do my usual 50 gallons a year then i need to step on it and set up a production line. So i made a plan. The previous brew (blueberry and cranberry) was the start of the plan, this is step 2.

Trying Something New

Recipe (3 Gallons):

3 Litres Passion Fruit Juice Drink (Sainsbury's)
2 Litres White Grape Juice
1 Litre Red Grape Juice
2 Kg Sugar
3 Teaspoons Citric Acid
2 Teaspoons Pectolase
Nutrient (2 teaspoons Tronozymol)
Yeast (GV1 Lees from previous brew)

OG 1075

Method:

It's another quickie, so check out the last brew for the summary method or find an old "quickie" wine recipe and method here in my "index" for details.

Discussion:

Not much to say really, this wine is always a winner. I used a mix of red and white grape juices for no good reason. You can use either or a combo yourself. The only difference will be the colour of the wine.

NB: when buying a "juice drink" check the ingredients. Often they have added artificial flavours, colours, sweeteners or preservatives. You may not care, but then again you may. These juices from Sainsbury's were all natural. The two biggies to watch out for are ...

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• Preservatives because they may well make it hell to get your wine started. The preservatives could mess with the yeast you add.
• Artificial sweeteners. To my mind these are one to avoid always. There's plenty of people talking about how dangerous they are, linking them to all sorts of things including cancer. However from a purely brewing perspective avoid them. They won't ferment, they'll be utterly unchanged, so your wine will end up being way sweeter than you're used to.