We just bottled up our second batch of aronia wine that we started brewing a few months ago. This recipe had two gallons of juice compared to the first batch which had 2.5 gallons, plus we tried a couple of different things to assist in the clearing.
With each batch, we bottle some as dry and sweeten the rest to between a semi-sweet and a sweet wine. We sweetened it up a bit more in search of a good balanced recipe.
Most of my tasters prefer the sweeter end of the spectrum but I do like how the dry turned out last year.
This seems to be the best batch we made from 2022 berries and looks pretty good through the light. Our third batch with another variation in the recipe is almost ready for second siphoning to clear the wine.
#1 son and I drank tasted the scrubs, what we call that last bit of wine that isn't enough to fill a bottle, and it's probably the best that we produced this year.
We might be getting close to the preferred recipe but I'm looking forward to finding out how our third one turns out.
Hi Joel: We are hoping you came through the storms OK. Nothing got us in So Illinois.
ReplyDeleteThanks for thinking of us, David
DeleteThe farm was okay but I have a lot of roofing tin in the field and so do my neighbors. These tornadoes ran to the southeast of the farm
The worst went from Keota - Wellman - Hills. They rated the Keota one an EF4. A lot of damage in those communities.
We watched some videos of that one. It was a bad one.
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