Monday, November 17, 2008

Pineapple Experiments

Cleaned out 2 one gallon glass jugs (from Carlo Rossi crap).

In one, emptied about two and a half 48oz cans of Walmart pineapple juice and approx 1/8 cup sugar.

In the other, the other half a can (24oz) of pineapple juice, 1.5 quarts of WalMart apple juice, one can Shop'n'Save Apple Juice frozen concentrate (plus it's three cans water), 1oz box raisins, and 1/4 cup sugar.

Mixed up 1/2 packet of rapid rise bread yeast in warm water (boiled it first and then iced it to cool it down) with a sprinkle of sugar. Added it half and half to each jug and put a balloon on top of each for a trap.

In retrospect, these needed more sugar. I wanted to make a dry wine of each, but didn't realize that generally speaking, all wines ferment dry, and are sweetened after they're done and stable.

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