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3 Cups coarsely chopped Dried Shitaki Mushrooms
1/2 cup freshly toasted sesame seeds
Poured boiling water over mushrooms and sesame seeds then let sit out covered over night.
Juiced one organic lemon and zested
2 tsp of yeast nutrient
1 cup of tea made with two jasmine tea bags
2 x 64 oz bottles of treetop 100% apple juice
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup raisins
Starting SG 1.060
Made starter with Lavin 1116 yeast
I was intending this to be a cooking wine which is why I shot for just under 8% ABV. It cleared quick and I had no issues with sesame oil which I thought I might.
After about a month I could clearly taste both sesame and shitaki. They were weaker then what I was hoping for but noticeable.
At two months the taste has completely changed. There is no shitaki or sesame flavor, my wife says she still detects a hint of shitaki. The flavor is very fruity only a hint of apple a very nice wine I wouldn't mind drinking. It tastes like some dessert wines with out being sweet. I will follow up as it ages.
1/2 cup freshly toasted sesame seeds
Poured boiling water over mushrooms and sesame seeds then let sit out covered over night.
Juiced one organic lemon and zested
2 tsp of yeast nutrient
1 cup of tea made with two jasmine tea bags
2 x 64 oz bottles of treetop 100% apple juice
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup raisins
Starting SG 1.060
Made starter with Lavin 1116 yeast
I was intending this to be a cooking wine which is why I shot for just under 8% ABV. It cleared quick and I had no issues with sesame oil which I thought I might.
After about a month I could clearly taste both sesame and shitaki. They were weaker then what I was hoping for but noticeable.
At two months the taste has completely changed. There is no shitaki or sesame flavor, my wife says she still detects a hint of shitaki. The flavor is very fruity only a hint of apple a very nice wine I wouldn't mind drinking. It tastes like some dessert wines with out being sweet. I will follow up as it ages.
