Raspberry Champagne for Christmas

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Raspberry Champagne for Christmas

Post by dean_wales » Sun Sep 02, 2012 12:06 pm

I have aquired some nice heavy duty swing top glass bottles to go in this years chrismas hampers.

In addition to the foody bits there will be some of my beers in there as usual. This year howver I want to include something pink for the WAGS!

The rules of play are - it must be between 4% and 12% alcohol, be pink, be fairly cheap and easy to make. Preferably looking something like these???

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So I have come up with three options for fizzy pink alcohol to fill the bottles with:

Option One: A 4% ABV raspberry alcopop. I would use some of the polish raspberry syrup and sugar as per the usual way. Heavily carbonated. How dry would this be? Is it ncie to drink? I could add some blitzed raspberry for a more homemade look.

Option Two: A 10% rose kit wine. Not cheap and not that homemade.

Option Three: A 10%-12% raspberry champagne. Thinking about using white grape concentrate as you would for wine making, adding a bottle of the polish syrup and then carbing heavily?


Any feedback or suggestions of something completely different?

I know my way around beer making but have only made one batch of red wine before and that was from actual grapes.

I have demi johns, racking bits etc. Where is the cheapest place to buy the grape concentrates? Any links to good wine supply websites?

Dean.
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Re: Raspberry Champagne for Christmas

Post by dean_wales » Sun Sep 02, 2012 12:23 pm

Method two below looks interesting. I would worry about refermentation though...

http://www.homewinemakingjuices.com/manual11.html
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