Monday, February 28, 2011

Strawberry Shazam

Tuesday, February 22nd:
  • Went to Sam's Club to get pineapples and sugar for more pineapple wine since I drank/gave most of it away and we only have two bottles left.  They had an awesome selection of strawberries so I bought 18lbs of them for $4.88/lbs.
  • De-stemmed and chopped all strawberries and put them in the fermentation bag and QS with warm water to near top of barrel. 
  • Added sugar until specific gravity was 1.1.  Was going for 1.09 but overshot it a bit.
  • Followed Bacchus's fruit wine receipe.
  • Set in basemet and let it go.
Monday, February 28th:
  • Checked the specific gravity at 1.015.
  • Transferred to secondary fermenter and topped off with 500mL of water.
  • Attached airlock
  • Will check in 3 weeks (March 21st (ish))