Monday, December 1, 2008

Bottled Grape Jelly wine

Tonight, I bottled the grape wine ahead of time so that it could sparkle up and carbonate by this weekend (for Crackbaby Thanksgiving!)

I crushed up two Campden tabs, dissolved in about a cup of water, and gently stirred into the wine.
I put a teaspoon of sugar into each of three plastic Mr. Beer bottles (I gotta find out how much those hold), and three of the glass 1 liter flip-tops. Ran wine off into each of these and let them sit for about 20 minutes with the caps on, but not sealed (to let CO2 replace the air in the bottles, Pat told me about doing that with the beer).

I filled a 1.5L bottle and corked it (w00T! got to use my cork press! I was surprised at how easy it was.)

I also filled two 750ml bottles, one of which I added a teaspoon of Wine Conditioner to.
(liquid invert sugar and potassium sorbate) I've read that Potassium Sorbate combined with Campden usually kills off yeast and fermentation.

I drank some of what was left. It's not killer dry, but VERY alcoholic. I wouldn't call it fuseled (rocket fuel-like), but it's strong.

Should make for excellent entertainment...

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