Ingredients.
1l Morrisons Summer fruit Hi Juice
3l Lidl grape juice
1/2 cup of strong black tea
400g white sugar
Youngs yeast nutrient
SB7 Champagne Yeast
I gently simmered the summer fruit juice for 20 minutes to remove additives and then added sugar and black tea. Left to cool.
Put 1/3 pint of grape juice in to a pint glass, added about 2 shots of the fruit juice & 1/4 tsp of yeast nutrients and added the yeast to make my starter.
As this has such a high sugar content, I guessed a starter would be needed or it might go slow or get stuck.
I took a hydrometer reading to get my SG.
I added remainder of the grape juice to my demijohn along with the fruit juice/tea mixture, and added a tsp of yeast nutrient and pitched my starter after giving it 2 hrs
Gave it a good old shake to airate the brew, left it to settle
SG1120
I'm hoping to get this down to 0.996 to make it about 16.5% then back sweeten it to taste.
I will probably throw another similar brew straight on to this yeast cake when i rack it off.
