People say fishing teaches patience. In my experience, it just weeds out
the impatient. I think wine making is the same. Impatient people switch to
beer or just buy what they want.

Ray

"Chris" > wrote in message
. ..
>
> Yes, the wine is dry. I'll take your advice and let it age a few months
and
> then try to sweeten it a bit.
>
> If nothing else, my winemaking hobby is forcing me to learn just a little
> bit more patience.
>
> Thanks to everybody for the help and advice.
>
> Chris.
>
>
> "Ray" > wrote in message
> . ..
> > I agree with Paul, I use brown sugar sometimes but only rarely. It can
> > overpower other tastes and my understanding is that molasses is even
> > stronger.
> >
> > All may not be lost though. Is your wine dry? Most country wines do
not
> > taste like the fruit they are made from if they are dry. You may need
to
> > sweeten it up a bit to get the fruit character to come back. But let it
> age
> > a bit first. Also, if you do sweeten it, be sure to use the proper
amount
> > of sorbate and sulfite to stabilize it.
> >
> > Ray
> >
> > "Paul E. Lehmann" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > Chris wrote:
> > >
> > > > I just made my first batch of strawberry wine using a vintners
harvest
> > > > kit,
> > > > and followed the directions on the side of the can except
> > >
> > > Unless you have previously experimented by altering the directions on
> the
> > > can, then you can not expect to get the desired results. Brown sugar
> and
> > > molassas sound like pretty drastic changes to the directions. I
> recommend
> > > that you first follow the direcitons, sample the results after some
> aging
> > > and THEN on the next batch if you want to experiment, you will have a
> > > baseline upon which to judge.
> > >
> > >
> > > > instead of 7
> > > > Lbs of white sugar, I used 5 Lbs of white sugar and 2 Lbs of brown
> > sugar.
> > > > In
> > > > addition, I added 12 oz of molassas. I let it ferment for about 1
> week
> > > > in the primary, and 3 weeks in the secondary.
> > > >
> > > > When I racked the wine this afternoon, there was no strawberry
flavor
> at
> > > > all, only yeast and alcohol. Is this normal? How long will it have
> to
> > > > age before any of the strawberry flavor comes through?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Chris.
> > >
> >
> >
>
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