I wanted to find out what I liked in wine. Thus these recipes and
results. I apologise, it is long.
Sean

Wine Log 2006 fall
October 8:
Experiment to find what I like and what is causing bad flavors in the
wine.
8 1 gal bottles

#1 Pomegranate
cold 1.050
sp+maple+heat 1.058
1 cup of maple syrup
1 1/4 cup of sugar
1.092
Juice bottle list:
Filtered H2O
HFCS
Pomegranate juice
Natural flavors
Citric Acid
Ascorbic acid
~2 1/3 juice removed from 2 1 quart bottles
added 1/2 cup maple syrup (feb13 2007)
result: very sweet, nice taste (6/07)

1 cup of juice added. And bottle and stopcock cleaned up.
10/21/06 cleaned jug and added 1 cup of sugar.
11/17/2096 added 1/2 cup of sugar to all wines
added 1/2 cup maple syrup (feb13 2007)

#2 Oct 8 2006
removed 2 1/3 cups of juice from 2 quarts
Cranberry juice:
Filtered H2O, concentrated white grape, Cranberry Puree, concentrate
Cranberry Juice, 34% total cranberry
Taste is rather good
added 1/2 cup maple syrup (feb13 2007)

Sp:
Original + maple +2c sugar
1.050, 1.065 1.082
cold cold hot=meat thermometer = ~140 degrees.
Boiling noises heard
10/21/06 cleaned jug and added 1 cup of sugar. Reaction subdued.
added 1/2 cup maple syrup (feb13 2007)
nice taste, sweet, (6/07)


#3 Hawaiian pineapple
sp juice: 1.050
sp juice and maple: 1.070
sp sugar, maple, heat 1.100

really took off.
10/21/06 cleaned jug and added 1 cup of sugar. Reaction subdued.
11/17/2096 added 1/2 cup of sugar to all wines
Much sediment
added 1/2 cup maple syrup (feb13 2007)
nice taste, apple like, sweet, (6/07)
#4 Dynamo Plus Calcium (weekend after 10/08)
has carrot stuff in it, may not really work out.
1.062 before heat after maple
room temp is ~75 F
meat thermometer says 170 F
used less liquid 2 q - 2/13 cups
2 cups sugar
1.085 when hot

added 1/2 cup sugar 10/21
11/17/2096 added 1/2 cup of sugar to all wines
added 1/2 cup maple syrup (feb13 2007)
interesting taste (6/07)


#5 Grape fruit
2 q = 2 1/3 cups
2 cups sugar
1 cup maple

1/2 cup sugar 10/21
11/17/2096 added 1/2 cup of sugar to all wines
added 1/2 cup maple syrup (feb13 2007)
too sour, bad aftertaste, (6/07)


#6 Limeaid 10/21
1 C maple
2 c Sugar
2q - 2 1/3 cup
11/17/2096 added 1/2 cup of sugar to all wines
added 1/2 cup maple syrup (feb13 2007)
sour and off taste (6/07)


#7 grape juice 10/21
1 C maple
2 c Sugar
2q - 2 1/3 cup
some more removed to bring level down
added raisons to add character to wine and because level was low.
11/17/2096 added 1/2 cup of sugar to all wines
added 1/2 cup maple syrup (feb13 2007)
Good taste, (6/07)


#8 ginger lemonade 10/21
1 C maple
2 c Sugar
2q - 2 1/3 cup
1.070 after unmeasured remainder of maple out of 32 ounces.
1.055 boiling! Oops! It boiled while I gamed. Left a ring of stuff in
the pot.
1.100 after 2 cups sugar
hydrometer is at 1.00 in water even if it looks like .990, got to read
it at bottom of meniscus.
Added raisins because level was low.
11/17/2096 added 1/2 cup of sugar to all wines
added 1/2 cup maple syrup (feb13 2007)
can taste the lemon and the ginger, too much, (6/07)




Spring, march 25, 2007
#9 balck berry juice from trader joe's
4 cups maple syrup
sp 1.095
ok taste, odd, (6/07)


Crangrape
1.5 cups maple syrup, over the counter 100% maple
From Ralphs.
1.080
2 cups white sugar
1.110
has its own High Frutose Corn syrup.
Odd taste, not bad (6/07)