Making Strawberry Wine

hello everybody and welcome back to wayne swirl today we're going to go over my recipe for making strawberry wine now some say why not just buy strawberry wine well in the days when i was in college the only strawberry wine i knew of was called ripple it's uh i think you can still buy it today but i haven't seen it in years and i haven't seen strawberry wine anywhere in years but i know it exists it's about ten dollars a bottle they tell me and it's not all that good so my strawberry wine is one of the most sought after by my friends and they're always asking me the secret to making a good strawberry wine and i lied to them a lot and i say the secret is the strawberries you get yeah i say you want a very very sweet strawberry and one that's fresh now that's a big fat lie because i have thrown away many batches of strawberry wine using fresh strawberries the problem with these little boogers if i get one out is the seeds if you look at a strawberry real close you see it is just saturated with seeds all around those little boogers get into your must during fermentation and they cause a slight bitterness to your wine the strawberry taste is kind of camouflaged by that taste and you say that's not very good so the truth is i have a secret and i'm going to tell you about that secret here right now i went to hawaii a few years ago and i had my first strawberry daiquiri and i watched the bartender make it and he used this uh mccadery i think it's what is called the catering daiquiri mix it's a frozen concentrate and i watched it and i looked at the can after he finished and there were no seeds whatsoever in that mixture and it made me come home and want to do some some research to find out what does this company do that removes this and how do they remove those seeds from this and i uh found out on the website that they use a centrifuge something similar to a regular washing machine with a spin cycle and they have filter membrane on the outside and they will puree strawberry and put it in this washing machine and put it on the spin cycle it throws all the seeds to the outside and there's and then of course the the rest of the juice goes through and becomes seedless strawberry and that's exactly all this is there's no additives there's no preservatives it's frozen and it makes an excellent strawberry wine now how many of these do you need well you need 30 to make 60 gal or 6 gallons sorry 30 of these to make six gallons and when you start pulling all these tabs off of 30 your fingers get sore and you get really upset now these things cost as i understand i paid at the local grocery store uh 2.78 cents a can now there is always a generic of anything out there and the store brand for this is exactly the same as the bar bacardi i i can never pronounce the word but it's exactly the same thing you taste one and taste the other same contour same exact ingredients and they're pure strawberry this is a dollar cheaper than the major brand brings your cost way down now i have made many many bottles of strawberry wine off of that to perfection but like i say when you are pulling all those those cans off top of there your fingers get sore so i started looking around some time ago and i found this on amazon it's primor strawberry puree and looking inside and checking it there also are no seeds it's also a concentrate and taste exactly like the other two problem is a bit more expensive it takes four of these to make two gallons it takes 30 of these to make two gallons but these are this is 25 dollars a piece so you need four of them and that's going to make a hundred dollars compared to if you use bacardi it's 83 if you use this it's 53 so it's it's your concern it will make exactly the same kind of strawberry wine now what are the other things you need you need of course distilled water now why not just regular tap water why not you know why not drinking water well the word is ph factor distilled water has no ph factor i think it's a ph of one which is you just don't want high ph when you're making wine of any kind now uh to make six gallons you need four of these because you have two gallons of the puree i usually find a container that makes me or allows me to make a bit over the six gallons and i find these buckets do great they have this nice little spigot on the bottom but you can do it in any kind of bucket you don't have to make five gallons at a time you can make as little as a gallon at a time it just tastes better when you make larger batches than it does the smaller and you will need uh sugar you're gonna have to add uh by the time you get through with this 12 cups of corn sugar i use corn sugar because it makes any wine taste better than using uh granulated sugar or pure cane learned that the hard way and and you can buy the corn sugar you need in this particular case you'll need i believe it's about three pounds and and you can get that through amazon for about 12 13 okay now we we're of course going to have to have some yeast nutrients and you're going to get a four ounce a bunch of that from from them also and i believe that's 7.49 a pound or a four four ounces sorry and then you're going to need a package of of k1v11 lalvin yeast that's a wine making yeast and that goes in here so we'll go through the stages here and i'll just run you through this after you get it all mixed together and you've got your sugar in and like i say with this it takes 12 cups uh to add to bring this to that you'll notice i've got it almost filled to the top i use a densitometer at this particular point and i put it on the bricks setting because this tells me what the percentage of sugar is i like to have it right above 25 maybe a 26 because that's going to yield me 14 to 15 alcohol by the time the fermentation stage has finished the next thing i do is start my yeast bath now the the yeast as you can see i put it into this bottle with just a little water i put some sugar in it and a little yeast nutrient the yeast nutrient helps this uh the yeast grow and in this case i let it go for about an hour now at this point i take it and i add it to the must and it don't really take a whole lot if i can get it in a picture and i just put it in there you don't even have to stir it you you can just do that and when i come in tomorrow this will be all bubbly and it will be just fermenting away now during the fermenting stage you just want to keep it covered you don't really want to keep the oxygen off of it at this time and this will go for seven days or until your densitometer just bring it back out here one more time when your densitometer basically gets all the way down to where you see the zero percent or as close as it's ever going to get when it's floating there you know all the sugar has been consumed by the yeast and turned in to alcohol so that means that from this point on we don't want any more oxygen to get into this from this point we'll take this i'll put a little spigot on it and i will pour everything into a six gallon container like this we call this a carboy and there's still fermentation going on and i will leave it in this stage with the carboy until i no longer see bubbles coming up on that now here like i say you have to keep the oxygen out so you use what's called a bong or just a check valve that keeps it allows the carbon dioxide to get out and keeps the oxygen from getting in the worst thing you want is oxygenated wine because it won't taste worth a flip now this will stay like i say at this stage until i don't see those bubbles anymore then the next thing you do is rack it and what you're doing to wreck it you look your yeast is starting to die off the more alcohol it produces and it falls to the bottom we're going to take a siphoning hose and we're going to keep it off the bottom and we're going to pull all that all the good stuff off and leave that behind and then it goes into the final stage now these are grape wines over here but they're now in the final stage and they will sit up here in age for a particular time and all of the sediments already gone out of these and they're now in what's called the fining stage of uh of becoming a good wine and they'll be ready for bottling it usually takes a grape wine about a year but because this is a straight juice it has no solids in it you can literally drink this in three to four months and it will be clear and it'll be a beautiful and delicious wine now i'm hearing some of you already asking questions and you're going to put it down in the comment section unless i tell you first so here it is you're going to say why spend all that money on this expensive stuff uh why not just uh why don't i just go down and buy uh one of the other juices that are half the price of any of that it says it's strawberry flavored and uh and i'll just use that to save a whole lot of money here's the problem most of that is just colored water with flavor in it there's no strawberry in that at all it's just a flavoring that they put in it it would still make a decent wine except for one fact it has preservatives in it preservatives like potassium sorbate or sodium megazoid or something like that anything that says sodium or potassium in the wording it will never ferment i don't care how much sugar you put in it how much yeast you put in it it will never ferment and you've wasted your money and your time so thanks again for joining me at wayne's world every once in a while i'll post one of these when i have something new to add you're welcome to place comments down if you think i'm doing something wrong go ahead and add to it believe me if if something can be made wrong i've done it a hundred times so i don't think it'd be telling me anything i haven't already tried so this is mr wayne saying goodbye from wayne's world you

Channel: Wayne Martin

Views: 6,702

Keywords: Strawberry, Wine, Barcadi, Juice

Id: LhY1lq_d1pU

Length: 14min 42sec (882 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 17 2020