On 14 June, 13:15, "Barb" > wrote:
> "McKevvy" > wrote in message
>
> ...
> Hi everyone,
> I remember sometime fairly recently someone asking about fermenting
> pure grape juice. Well I'm just about to try substituting the normal
> concentrated grape juice with ASDAs own brand of drinking juice [1].
> I've been moved in this direction by my local wine/beer making
> supplier who has stopped stocking the Youngs conc. grape juice in the
> 250 ml tins where he charged me £2.50 and now has changed to another
> supplier and wants to charge me £3.90! Bugger that I thought. So I've
> bought the ASDA brand of grape drinking juice having checked the
> ingredients label first to make sure there's only juice and nothing
> else. It also states the the grapes are from Spain. I've just measured
> the S.G. which is 1070 and I'm going to make peach wine with a litre
> of ASDA sustituted.
> I've just though....why don't I ferment a gallon of ASDAs juice? Five
> quid for a gallon of wine? Surely can't be too bad.
>
> Right, I'm off to the kitchen and hopefully I'll have it done before
> the England/USA footie match comes on :-)
>
> [1]http://groceries.asda.com/asda-estore/search/searchcontainer.jsp;jses....
>
> McK.
>
> Yes, I've done it, and it comes out ok, although not wonderful.... useful
> drinking plonk.
>
> Don't forget the cost of any additional sugar, acid, yeast, nutrients, etc.
> However, it still works out cheap!
>
> Go for it - can't go wrong at this price, even if you have to use it for
> cooking!
>
> Barb

Yup it still works out cheaper than fruit wine and certainly cheaper
than cheap shop drinking plonk.
I'll give it a go this weekend.

Cheers
McKevvy