OOPS! Too small

[hannabarn]

Making 3 gallons of strawberry rhubarb and thought a 5 gallon bucket would be good enough!! WRONG!

This will be better!
racking to a bigger fermenter

Now let the yeast do its job!
Looks like it will be a pretty wine.

 

[grapeman]

I love that second picture! You captured the inividual drops. Must be a fast camera! Wonderful color there.

 

[smurfe]

That wine has a great color as well. My strawberry comes out more pink than red.

 

[Wade E]

How many lbs of strawberries are in there, sure looks like a nice full bag so it should be a really nice flavorful wine!

 

[hannabarn]

That is 12# of strawberries and 6# of rhubarb. That's why it didn't fit in the 5 gallon fermenter. I never thought about how much room that would take up until the yeast started to work and expanded everythimg! !@#$$%^

 

[Dean]

That wine has a great color as well. My strawberry comes out more pink than red.

K-meta wreaks havoc on strawberry coloring! I always make sure it is well diluted in water before adding as it leaches color in strawberry wine. My wine is always a deep clear red now that I started doing that instead.

 

[hannabarn]

Racked it into secondary and it is still pretty!

 

[moto-girl]

That is so pretty!

 

[Wade E]

Yep, Im loving the color! It looks as dark as my raspberry wine!

 

[grapeman]

I missed your post Barney. That looks superb. How does it taste?

 

[Goodfella]

Wow... that looks and sounds incredible.


Have you ever tasted a finished wine with your recipe?

 

[hannabarn]

I was gone for the weekend and just got home so haven't had a chance to check it yet. I will taste it as soon as it quits fermenting and let you know. I hope it tastes as good as it looks!! This is the first batch so I haven't tasted a finished wine yet.

 

[rrawhide]

pretty pretty pretty

rrawhide

 

[hannabarn]

The Strawberry rhubarb is still pretty after final filtering. Tastes pretty good too for a young wine!

 

[fivebk]

The wine has a beautiful color!!! Seems like I learn something every time I read a new thread. The information given about diluting the K-Meta in water before adding to the wine to retain as much color as possible will surely be put to use the next time I make a batch of strawberry.

BOB

 

[hannabarn]

I dilute K-Meta in a little wine before adding