VIMTO II

[jstev21]

Started a new one today not tried yet recipie is as follows...

750 Ml Vimto cordial Boiled/Simmered for 15 mins
3.5 Litres cooled boiled water
1 Tsp Rehydrated Nutriated Active ( bubbling ) Youngs super wine yeasties
1 Tsp DAP
450g white sugar


Starting gravity of 1.050 and praying its not mega active coz its right at the 5Litre mark
will be cleared and bottle primed

[second2none]

Maybe I'm just being stoopid but What is DS?

[jstev21]

DAP its sposed to be lol... Diammonium Phosphate yeastie foodz

[second2none]

I searched high and low for what DS was! it was an honest mistake sorry for pointing it out,
thanks for editing ur post,

Dap = Yeast nutirent

I wouldnt have thought something with so much sugar would need nutirent or is it to make them yeasts preform faster!?
I like your idea of watering down the vimto, my first one i did with 2L Vimto and 2L apple juice and it was reeeal bad! That bubbled like Fff.... but you should be ok *crosses his fingers for u*

[jstev21]

I threw some DAP in as ive read elswhere that vimto has shedloadsa preservatives, so to give the youngs a fighting chance in it went.

its going nice and strong now, no crazy foamage as of yet, ive left a quarter litre space to add some more vimto or something else dunno what yet am thinking tho some sort of cherry concentrate, maybe some apple juice.

[jstev21]

now this vimto stuff ferments wayy faster than the melina project.. already down to 1.010 from 1.050 an that was 5 days ago, topped up the quarter litre with aplle juice from lidle. need to bre something of a different color all my brews so far have been berry colored lol

[jstev21]

Well... another success i recon, its was racked off from the lees, to clear a bit, bottle primed with 3/4 tsp sugar per 45 Cl flippy top bottle, not brilliantly clear in bottles but i know it does clear perfectly as the tester before bottling was perfect, tastes just like vimto cider lol pretty good. bottled at fg 1.002 from 1.050