Water , Fruit Juices from Concentrate 20% (Blood Orange 19.5%, Pomegranate 0.5%) , Sugar , Citric Acid , Natural Flavourings (Blood Orange, Pomegranate) , Natural Colour (Anthocyanins) , Stabiliser (Pectin) .
Levi Roots juice
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Dave_Brew
Levi Roots juice
Just been to Asda to pick up some AJ and some of that Polish raspberry syrup and noticed a range of juice drinks from Levi Roots. Do you think this would ferment ok? It's got 11g of sugar per 100ml so that's 500g if you used 4.5L, would that be enough? I've pasted the ingredients below. I recon it might be an interesting experiment
Water , Fruit Juices from Concentrate 20% (Blood Orange 19.5%, Pomegranate 0.5%) , Sugar , Citric Acid , Natural Flavourings (Blood Orange, Pomegranate) , Natural Colour (Anthocyanins) , Stabiliser (Pectin) .
Water , Fruit Juices from Concentrate 20% (Blood Orange 19.5%, Pomegranate 0.5%) , Sugar , Citric Acid , Natural Flavourings (Blood Orange, Pomegranate) , Natural Colour (Anthocyanins) , Stabiliser (Pectin) .
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asd
Re: Levi Roots juice
Hi,
I would be inclined to buy the pure juices separately - Basically, you are buying a bit of juice (20%), and a load of sugar (~80%). Also, you would probably find it doesn't clear very well, as pectin is insoluble in alcohol, and would leave a haze.
It wouldn't be very strong, either. I reckon that if you divide the g/100ml of sugar by two, you get a rough estimate of the %ABV. So about 5-5.5%.
As an aside, when I do these WoWs or turbos, I invert my sucrose by boiling with a bit of citric acid for about 15-20 minutes, usually in the pressure cooker - making sure the solution isn't too thick - maybe a litre of water to a kilo of sugar, but I've never measured it..
It means the yeast doesn't have to break down the sucrose into its component glucose and fructose. So it can spend all it's time converting the monosaccharides to alcohol!
Simon.
I would be inclined to buy the pure juices separately - Basically, you are buying a bit of juice (20%), and a load of sugar (~80%). Also, you would probably find it doesn't clear very well, as pectin is insoluble in alcohol, and would leave a haze.
It wouldn't be very strong, either. I reckon that if you divide the g/100ml of sugar by two, you get a rough estimate of the %ABV. So about 5-5.5%.
As an aside, when I do these WoWs or turbos, I invert my sucrose by boiling with a bit of citric acid for about 15-20 minutes, usually in the pressure cooker - making sure the solution isn't too thick - maybe a litre of water to a kilo of sugar, but I've never measured it..
It means the yeast doesn't have to break down the sucrose into its component glucose and fructose. So it can spend all it's time converting the monosaccharides to alcohol!
Simon.
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Re: Levi Roots juice
Sounds like an interesting experiment to me asd is right, most straight juice will give you an ABV of around 5-6% which is fine as a session drink (and it can always be souped up with sugar if you so desire) and i'd not worry to much about the pectin content - just pop a tsp of pectolase in the mix before you ferment.
I'd also consider quite a strong backsweeten too to couteract all that citrus in the finished brew - 2 (or even 3) tsp of splenda per 500ml !
asd is right, most straight juice will give you an ABV of around 5-6% which is fine as a session drink (and it can always be souped up with sugar if you so desire) and i'd not worry to much about the pectin content - just pop a tsp of pectolase in the mix before you ferment.I'd also consider quite a strong backsweeten too to couteract all that citrus in the finished brew - 2 (or even 3) tsp of splenda per 500ml !
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Re: Levi Roots juice
wow that's a lot of splenda! lol I've been to the LHBS today and picked up some of the basic ingredients so thing's like this don't really cost that much so cheap enough if it doesn't work
I might give it a go sometime and send him a bottle see if I can get any royalties if it turns into a new line! lol
I might give it a go sometime and send him a bottle see if I can get any royalties if it turns into a new line! lol