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On 3/22/04 6:15 PM, in article
, "Don S"
> wrote:

>> You can make really good wine out of such juices. Sometime try orange
>> juice, I have a recipe that uses frozen concentrate that is amazing.
>
> Post the orange juice recipe? Is it dry?
>
> Don

I made an orange melomel that turned out really nice. Here's my details:

Orange Melomel

10/18/2003

~11.5 pounds of clover and wildflower honey
four 16 oz cans of frozen orange concentrate
4 gallons of water
8 tsp tartaric acid
10 g fermaid
1/4 tsp tannin

Mixed well. SG (a little warm) measured 1.088. About 3 cups of the must was
taken out and inoculated with KV-1116 yeast to prepare a yeast starter. 2 g
pot. meta was added to the must.

Note about the honey * most of this is old honey that has been sitting here
for about two years. About 2 pounds is a commercial clover honey, 6 pounds
of ND clover from two years ago that had trouble fermenting out. About 3
pounds is a wildflower honey from ND.

10/19/2003 pectinase added in the morning. Working starter was added in the
afternoon.

10/22/2003 SG 1.040 * transferred to a 6 gallon carboy. Over 5 gallons.

11/1/03 SG 0.999 * racked into 5 gallon carboy.

1/24/2004 SG 0.997. Becoming very clear. Racked into 5 gal carboy * 2.5 g
sulfite. Topped up with about 2/3 bottle of citrus wine.

3/7/2004 SG 0.997 * TA ~0.9 (note still some CO2 in it?). filtered through
#3 filters. 1.5 g sulfite added. Bottled into 24 bottles. Alcohol 12%.