Your favorite "Off-beat" Wine

[p funky]

What's the strangest thing you ever shoved into a fermenter? The oddest wine you've ever made? And... was it any good?

 

[p funky]

I'll go first: Right now, I have a Fig Sherry going on- it's aging in the secondary carboy.

It's strong (about 18%), but it should be fairly smooth, and have all kinds of interesting, meaty flavors to it.

 

[Caplan]

For me it's my 'Hop Wine' - I found the recipe in a 'country wine' book and used some leftover hops from a beer I'd made. It's aging now for a while and is slowly clearing. I recently racked it and it tasted better than I'd been expecting it to!

 

[Sir Sudster]

I made a kiwi/Grapefruit that was incredibly good. Used Champagne yeast.

 

[Jim Karr]

recipe for fig wine

Figs? What's your recipe?

 

[rod]

i tried the exotica wine recipe, using bananas, mangos and pineapple.
only problem is i was to add 7 lbs of sugar but added 12 as i thought the bags were 1 kilo(2.2 lbs x 3 = 6.6 lbs) but they were actually 2 kilos.(duh)
i then added extra water to reduce the og to 1.092.
ended up with about 30 litres instead of 23. - hope it will taste ok.

 

[smurfe]

Mine has to be the Kumquat mead. It is an unorthodox recipe that many use called Joe M's Ancient Mead. I just modified it to fit my needs and came out great. I had made the original recipe with oranges before and it was very good so I thought I would modify it to use the kumquats. It turned out very smooth and tasty. It was quite well received at Winestock in Dallas last May. I was quite proud of my efforts.

Smurfe

 

[Caplan]

Mine has to be the Kumquat mead. It is an unorthodox recipe that many use called Joe M's Ancient Mead. I just modified it to fit my needs and came out great. I had made the original recipe with oranges before and it was very good so I thought I would modify it to use the kumquats. It turned out very smooth and tasty. It was quite well received at Winestock in Dallas last May. I was quite proud of my efforts.

Smurfe

You didn't follow the instructions!!!!!! Joe's Ancient Mead shouldn't be altered!

Just kidding - Your Mead looked great in the pics you posted in another thread, beautiful colour and crystal clear too!

I've now got something in my primary that may make my 'hop wine' seem normal......

 

[lalahobbit]

Nothing too mad so far, made a tinned lychee and dried elderflower wine in April, still waiting for it to mellow out. I thought sweet and dry would balance out. Came out very astringent (I think) and had a real dry kick to it. Last tried it in October and it had calmed down a bit...

 

[daveb50]

I made a Jalapeno-Apple wine last year, and have been using it for cooking purposes. It's great in Chili and Maranades. After a year of aging though it has mellowed into a good sipping wine. Mind you, I do not drink much at any one sitting, a couple ounces goes a long way. I started out with a 1 gallon recipe from Jack Keller's site, using 16 Jalapenos. I added too much sugar, and used a gallon of Apple juice to get the SG back down to 1.090, and pitched Montrachet yeast. It finished at an SG of .992, I did not use the Jalapeno seeds when making it.
Dave

 

[weltercat]

I made a kiwi/Grapefruit that was incredibly good. Used Champagne yeast.

I thought I would try this one out because it sounded kind of good. I started it back in august and just bottled it. Wow! it is really good, I am definitely going to start a five gallon batch. I used a grapefruit recipe from Jack Keller's site and just added Kiwi Fruit as well.

 

[Luc]

Nothing too mad so far, made a tinned lychee and dried elderflower wine in April, still waiting for it to mellow out. I thought sweet and dry would balance out. Came out very astringent (I think) and had a real dry kick to it. Last tried it in October and it had calmed down a bit...

I still have about 10 cans of lychees in the garage.
I also have one ot two recipes.
Would you share yours so I can see if I can
tweak it a bit.

Luc

 

[thunder2000]

Elderberry

Last year I made a gallon of Elderberry and man did it ever turn out. I had six bottles and let it age for about six months and when we tryed it. WOW!!! I am making 12 gallons right now and can't wait to get it done. It had great flavor and had some punch. Couldn't stay out of it. I started in December with the next 12 can't wait.

 

[oxyoke]

Gatoraide

I just made a gallon of wine out of gatoraide for a couch potato sports fan friend of mine, have no idea how it will turn out. Plan to test it out on him when he's not looking.

 

[Mnementh]

Just started the oddest wine I've yet made. A lime/coconut wine, with a base of Welch's white grape juice.

 

[jackmcmanus21]

Just started the oddest wine I've yet made. A lime/coconut wine, with a base of Welch's white grape juice.

that sounds delicious....very pina coladaish. Let us know how it turns out!

 

[Kevinski324]

Juniper/hawthorn berry wine

I have a batch of juniper/ hawthorne wine just finishing up now, and it tastes like a fruity/piny(almost like a grapefruit taste, but with other flavors added). I also am now making a black current wine, using honey as a sweetener(I just started this one, so I'll let you know how it turns out..)

 

[BettyJ]

i tried the exotica wine recipe, using bananas, mangos and pineapple.
only problem is i was to add 7 lbs of sugar but added 12 as i thought the bags were 1 kilo(2.2 lbs x 3 = 6.6 lbs) but they were actually 2 kilos.(duh)
i then added extra water to reduce the og to 1.092.
ended up with about 30 litres instead of 23. - hope it will taste ok.

Hi there
I was wondering where to find this recipe as I would love to try it. How did yours turn out?

 

[Boozehag]

I want to hear how the lime coconut one turned out that sounds a bit of me if it tatses anything like the ingredients!

 

[St Allie]

Tabasco pepper red wine..

it's bulk aging at present .. is nice and warming with a bit of a kick.. it toned down amazingly after fermentation finished.. and betting by xmas it'll be a nice sipping wine.

I will probably make another 5 gallon batch judging by the way this is going.