Other Tweak for cru orchard breezing lime

[PamNoir]

Hi all! I picked up an orchard breezing lime kit for pretty cheap. I haven't made a lot of kits, mostly homemade, but I have made lots of beer kits. I have read that it will come out sweet and low abv. I would like to up the abv and have it come out medium dry. Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[PamNoir]

I was thinking of trying that F pack thing but I think that is more for flavor..

 

[cpfan]

Hi all! I picked up an orchard breezing lime kit for pretty cheap. I haven't made a lot of kits, mostly homemade, but I have made lots of beer kits. I have read that it will come out sweet and low abv. I would like to up the abv and have it come out medium dry. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Could add half of the F-pack to the primary. Then add some sugar to raise the sg to the desired reading (1.080 to 1.090 perhaps). The wine should finish about .995.

Steve

 

[ceeaton]

I have an OB Green Apple Delight just about finished with primary fermentation (was .998 tonight, but still showing some airlock activity). I put 1/2 of the flavor pack into the primary, then made a simple sugar solution to bring the SG up to 1.080 (from about 1.065). According to the directions in my kit, the SG after adding the whole f-pack after stabilizing would have brought it up to 1.015, which is too sweet for my wife and me. I'm aiming for 1.002 to 1.005 and will test as I add the rest of the f-pack.

Can't tell you how it turned out yet, but this is what many on this site seem to do.

 

[PamNoir]

Thanks! Half the fpack and sugar to raise sg sounds like way to go. Checked my kit and the fsg is suppose to be 1.015 to 1.020! So sweet... I am starting it tomorrow

 

[PamNoir]

Alittle late in starting it....By over a month? Anyways. I put the left over fpack in a baggie in the fridge. Will that be okay?

 

[ceeaton]

That's what I did and it seemed to work fine. I think the fridge temps will keep it from fermenting if something got into it when adding the first half earlier.

Just bottled my Green Apple wine today and it had a SG of 1.009. I added some organic apple juice to boost the flavor. Sweet enough to accentuate the apple, but not so sweet to be undrinkable (for me).

 

[DoctorCAD]

I think you could leave the F pack sit open in a yeast factory and it wouldn't ferment! There is enough stabilizers in there to choke an elephant.

 

[PamNoir]

I think you could leave the F pack sit open in a yeast factory and it wouldn't ferment! There is enough stabilizers in there to choke an elephant.

Haha...poor elephant. Then it should be fine the fridge.

 

[PamNoir]

Just bottled my Green Apple wine today and it had a SG of 1.009. I added some organic apple juice to boost the flavor. Sweet enough to accentuate the apple, but not so sweet to be undrinkable (for me).

It sounds great. I hope mine turns out drinkable! Let us know when open one.

 

[ceeaton]

Hopefully will leave it alone for a couple of months. Put it behind some shelves in the basement out of the direct line of my sight.

Have a Cranberry Craze down to 1.002, should finish up soon. Will probably be till the end of the month till I bottle that one. Added some frozen cranberries to that one which I removed this morning. Smelled pretty good at this point. Also added 1/2 of f-pack so it can ferment out. Wife is very interested in that one since she likes semi sweet reds as well as her white wines.