lidl red wine

[pongobilly]

IF I WANTED TO MAKE A 8 LTR BATCH OF THIS, WOULD I DOUBLE UP ON EVERYTHING?, ALSO WOULD THIS BE OK BOTTLED IN 1LTR PETS AS I HAVE NO WINE BOTTLES

Lidl Red Wine Recipe

4x 1 litre cartons lidl red grape juice
1lb sugar
2 tsp citric acid
1 tsp nutrient
1/2 tsp tannin
1 tsp pectolase
1 tsp yeast (i use youngs high alcohol)

1lb of sugar makes a sweet red but i do change my levels have gone down to 8oz sugar but this makes a very dry red,i've got 2 demi johns on the go now 1 with 10oz in and 1 with 12oz

Have a go hope you enjoy it for what it costs its a nice drink and lidl have just dropped the price to 78p a carton

[mrbenbod]

just tweeked your recipe a tad and replaced some of the grape juice with some cranberry juice could not refuse at 10p a 250 ml
carton (40 p litre).

Where did you find this bargain?

[alfredjohn]

hi
mr ben bod
afraid got it from a local discount store
in ilkeston, derby's not a multi national.
btw it is bubbling like mad ,much faster
than the ciders i have on.

[mrbenbod]

Ah, ok thanks.
Mine is also bubbling away extremely rapidly.
Must be some use for all this C02 being given off, apart from warming the planet.

[pongobilly]

Lidl Red Wine Recipe

4x 1 litre cartons lidl red grape juice
1lb sugar
2 tsp citric acid
1 tsp nutrient
1/2 tsp tannin
1 tsp pectolase
1 tsp yeast (i use youngs high alcohol)

1lb of sugar makes a sweet red but i do change my levels have gone down to 8oz sugar but this makes a very dry red,i've got 2 demi johns on the go now 1 with 10oz in and 1 with 12oz

Have a go hope you enjoy it for what it costs its a nice drink and lidl have just dropped the price to 78p a carton

IF I WANTED TO MAKE A 8 LTR BATCH OF THIS, WOULD I DOUBLE UP ON EVERYTHING?, ALSO WOULD THIS BE OK BOTTLED IN 1LTR PETS AS I HAVE NO WINE BOTTLES

[dewsfamily]

Hi pongobilly,

Yes there's no reason why you can't just double up the recipe if you want to do 8 litres I do 8 litres at a time but use 2 demi's thats all as i use 2 different sugar levels as i prefer the more medium dry but the others in the house like the sweeter one.Let us know how ya get on

dewsfamily

[pongobilly]

do i double everything or just the juice and sugar

[dewsfamily]

yes pongobilly i'd double everything up apart from maybe the citric acid but thats up to you and how acidic you like your wines to be if you like more mellow wines just keep it to 2 tsps

Dewsfamily

[mrbenbod]

I've just bottled my lidl wine.
It looks and tastes like a rose.
Very light and fruity, pretty strong though.
I followed Dewsfamily's recipe but used 2 litres of Cranberry juice and 2 litres of red grape juice, topped up with orange juice after the
first couple of days fermenting and 12oz of sugar. Thanks Dewsfamily.
Tastes pretty nice, certainly drinkable. Considering the ingredients cost about £3.50 in total i'll defo be doing another batch.
Thought i'd post a couple of pics of the bottled wine, put into used rose bottles, you'd never know the difference

[dewsfamily]

Well mrbenbod,
After seeing your pictures of the lidl rose it looks a really nice drop of wine so hence forth its off to lidl in the morning for a few cartons of grape and cranberry juice and get some made for xmas The Moet lidl is now bottled and standing upside down waiting to be frozen and sediment removed.Will post pictures when i open it to show how it turns out

[mrbenbod]

I've just bought a larger fementing vessel, 5 litres doesn't go very far.
I'm going to do another batch tomorrow, perhaps with slightly less citric acid.
I'd quite like to try a Moet Lidl, although the freezing process sounds a bit precarious.
Do you need a special corking machine for champagne corks?

[Mitchamitri]

not really, but you do need to buy wire cages for them.

[dewsfamily]

Hi mrbenbod,
Thought i'd post you the pics of the moet lidl so far and a pic of the corks and cages i'm using.These are available from most good homebrew shops.Hope these will answer your questions and will post more pics on opening it at xmas.
dewsfamily

[WishboneBrewery]

yeah, I'm going to need more Demijohns and another order from the brew shop of the other ingredients, I'm just brewing this kinda thing with Sainsbury's red Grape juice. Cheers for posting

[TC2642]

I've done my own gallon of wine using the Sunpride grape juice. I have high hopes for it since it lists Merlot, Grenache and Carignan in the ingredients (I think, going from memory). Bubbling away nicely at the mo.