Jolt Cola - All the sugar and twice the caffeine! ... that stuff got me through high school and working as a teen in the 80's. Thank for the jittery memories.
@seanhoude
Жыл бұрын
Love that you guys can laugh at yourselves. The interaction between the two of you has as much to do with my watching as the instruction.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Thank you :)
@nbmaritimer9955
Жыл бұрын
Another great video. In passing, I like your recent videos better where you get everything from start to finish in one video. Kinda hard following your older videos but they are still good. I just like getting the end product result to see what you got. 👍
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Yep. We changed it a while back and it makes much more sense.
@shannoncraig509
Жыл бұрын
It's my wine O.G. reading now or never But it ain't gonna ferment forever I just want to ferment while my yeasts are alive It's my wine My recipe is like an open highway Like Brian says, "I did it my way" I just want to ferment while my yeast are alive It's my wine (sung to the tune of it's my life bon jovi)
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Lol
@julietardos5044
Жыл бұрын
This episode is extra funny! Plus, I am not sober, so it's extra extra!
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Lol
@SymPlayTon
Жыл бұрын
I loved this one considering I have some fresh plums I plan to make wine with. The skins of the plum is where a lot of the tart comes from. Nothing you can do with the concentrate, but peeling some or all of the plums when using fresh could reduce tartness/bitter. I also enjoy Japanese plum wine, and this will encourage me to do more research on how they do it to try to get a more balanced result.
@PhyleXTension82
Жыл бұрын
I love the mad scientist nature that you guys have. Please keep it up!
@AwakeAtTheWheel
Жыл бұрын
I’m super excited for the proposed fermenting soda experiment!! 🍻
@SamwiseOutdoors
Жыл бұрын
I've made Mountain Dew jelly before, and it's pretty good.
@davidhowell7279
Жыл бұрын
The only possible thing to overcome would be the number of preservatives found in many commercial sodas. I've encountered juices with 'natural flavors '. After some research, it turns out that there's a loophole in which a naturally derived preservative can be included in those 'natural flavors '. It took a lot of time and effort to get it to get start fermenting. I had to make another must from a comparable juice with no additives and blend them. Especially disappointing in a product labeled 'organic '. I still plan on trying it someday, though. Do the Dew.
@AwakeAtTheWheel
Жыл бұрын
@@davidhowell7279 Do the Dew! 🍻
@theaverageeverydayperson9204
7 ай бұрын
Aww, the cute "ill have to get you some" is the most adorable thing ever ❤
@heartemisart700
Жыл бұрын
Your sense of humor and thinking outside the box (the booze dogmas) as my friend calls it, is appreciated! I do the same when a batch turns out 'mweh' and needs a fix. Extracts, syrups and cordials are`useful, so are Polish fruit vodka's!!
@jerrodbroholm4338
Жыл бұрын
I only recently found you guys thanks to the algorithm, but I subscribed pretty quick and I'm enjoying every minute. Thanks for the info and the positive entertainment!
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@TheJaniceJoy
Ай бұрын
When I was young I made a plum wine in the basement using a old, glazed pickle croc. I chopped fresh Italian prune plums, added water, sugar and bread yeast then stirred it with a wooden spoon. I covered it with a kitchen towel and every few days I peeled that sticky spoon from the stiffening towel and gave it a stir. A few weeks later I siphoned off the most beautiful, clear, delicious, sweet plum dessert wine. That was 50 years ago and I still remember that incredible wine. It was blind luck that it fermented beautifully. I missed this plum season but next year I’ll make it again.
@GeraldAguillard
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your content. I’m new to wine making and I learned a lot by watching your videos.
@mbrhythm1206
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you guys tied this. If you remember my last comment, I mentioned Japanese Plum wine which normally is neutral spirits infused with very young plums making it very sour but then very sweet with a lot of sugar. But... the original umeshu ( oo - may - shoo) used the natural yeast from the plums to ferment. I'm making a batch now. best after about 6 to 10 months. Good like guys. 梅酒
@mbrhythm1206
Жыл бұрын
8 - 12% ABV is what you can find in most stores here in Japan.
@jamesh5460
Жыл бұрын
Okay cool, we have two massive plum trees and we would love to try a small 1 gallon wine batch before we jump into the 5 gallon run. Would we still use the same 1lb of fruit per gallon and then add sugar until we reach ? sg? This year we have a bumper crop of currents, strawberries, raspberries and apples which of course we want to try and ferment. I have been mostly a beer brew guy but after watching your channel the fruit ferment has been incredibly intriguing aspect to try. You two have the best (imo) brewing guides we have ever seen and has been very inspirational. Cheers!
@thatmckenzie
Жыл бұрын
9% and super tart? That, my friend, sounds like a fabulous candidate for a spritzer.
@Chef_Handsome
Жыл бұрын
I am so Glad you added the Fu Ki Its one of my Favorite plum wines! I would Die to try this brew and Im going to be making this exactly like you did soon!! I just started my First Brew and it is an Apple Cycer Mead! 5 days into Fermentation now!!Your Videos have been So helpful Thank you!! Cant Wait for a Follow up!
@jelton52
10 ай бұрын
I love your content and it gives me so many more options! Options babe, options!
@sniktripn7217
Жыл бұрын
I've wanted to do a plum wine for ages now always thought it would come out a little like port flavor wise and this is making me want to do it even more
@goldiegirl6705
4 ай бұрын
Thank you for mentioning the prune wine. I can't find plum juice here in Canada and had thought of trying prune juice.
@jerrybruce2295
Жыл бұрын
Maybe a little of subject of the video but on topic. Years ago in my youth I was experimenting with wine making. I used a basic store bought grape juice added a little sugar boiled it for about 15 minutes and allowed it to cool to room temperature. I used a recycled two liter bottle ( sanitized) and a balloon (yes I know…) added water to the desired head space. Added a teaspoon of Fleischmans yeast. Within 3 hours the fermentation had taken off like a rocket and continued seriously active for about a week. I let it rest for another couple of weeks. Being young and stupid I didn’t siphon rack but filtered. The end product was actually really good I’m not sure what the ABV was but it was pretty stout. Love your videos. Keep it coming 😊
@Bartolomei406
Жыл бұрын
I made some Plum Wine last year with fresh plums that I crushed. on my last check it was coming along nicely. Although i wish i had found you guys before, as I have gained a TON of information from watching your videos. I am going to put what i have learned to use on this years batch.
@fingersfinesilver
Жыл бұрын
We make that here in Czech Republic (and then distil it). When you first tried the plum wine, and it was fizzy and tart - that happened to apricot wine - I left it, back in the cupboard, for another month and it ended up superb at a higher alcohol level.
@Alf_4
Жыл бұрын
29:19 to witness Brian forget that a noise full of yeast might affect his taste perception😂
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
The tasting was on a different day, lol.
@404Cluster
11 ай бұрын
It's a good, fun experiment! I love it, you guys are awesome. I wonder if actual plum wine isn't a thing because there are a ton of non-fermentable sugars in plum...
@Joseph_Dredd
Жыл бұрын
"I have an idea" Let's put some cointreau in it!!!! :) hehe
@GoddessAstrola
Жыл бұрын
The mention of Jolt cola gave me such a big hit of nostalgia. Ah the good old days before my kidneys didn't have issues.
@SamwiseOutdoors
Жыл бұрын
So close to a prune juice wine. I feel like Cateau Worf Vintage 2023 is a thing that we all need.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
I made prune wine once. Vile stuff.
@SamwiseOutdoors
Жыл бұрын
@@CitySteadingBrews Truly fit for the palate of a Klingon, then! I'll bet that it pairs nicely with warm gagh!
@jillwhatley994
11 ай бұрын
Love you guys!!!❤😂🎉great content, as usual, ty
@CitySteadingBrews
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching :)
@kjdevault
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been wanting to do a plum wine, like the actual plum, not a flavored spirit. Glad to see this. I’ve got a red blend going with several base juices, one of which is the pomegranate plum juice from Aldi’s along with a grape base. Not that names matter, but I’m not 100% sure what it would be called. It’s got dark mixed fruits, the dark juices, going for a complex dark red that I will oak as well. I used some rice and oats with enzymes too. Can’t wait to see where it ends and how it is. I think the pats will give it some more body and mouthfeel like are used in spirits and beer. It’s home-brew, right!? I can do what I want!
@bluephoenix226
Жыл бұрын
"Fly by the seat of our pants and take some readings? rofl yes please
@davidraney9744
Жыл бұрын
Love your channel...thanks for the work that you do! Question though, I know you don't sweeten/ferment with molasses (funky flavors and such) but have you tried cane syrup (unburnt molasses) as a fermentable sugar? We've got lots of it in the deep south.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
I wouldn’t expect much difference really.
@milesfromnowhere1985
Жыл бұрын
The first wine I ever made, after over a decade of brewing beer exclusively, was a plum wine from my friend's cherry plum tree. I had no fermenters smaller than 5 gallons, so I pressed it directly into several mason jars and kept them under the porch of my tiny house as they fermented naturally (burping each jar twice a day). Somehow, this method yielded a much better wine than any other subsequent time using those plums with proper fermenters and airlocks. I hope someday to be able to make such a good plum wine again!
@johnp.2267
Жыл бұрын
Crazy idea for a Cherry Cordial Wine: Fermentation - Cherry juice and whole cherries Post-Ferment - Cacao nibs macerated in neutral spirits and amaretto Post-Ferment - Very small amount of vanilla extract You're welcome, Derica.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
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@ermakers1297
Жыл бұрын
I have made a variety of fruit wines, all using fresh fruit. I typically did the primary ferment on fruit in an open top container covered in a cloth. I would rack off of fruit after 7 days into a secondary fermenter with an airlock. I did a plum wine using fresh yellow plums from our backyard. My plum wine came out on the sweeter side and it frankly tasted like brandy even though it wasn't distilled.
@even7steven
Жыл бұрын
I always wondered why it's called prune juice, not plum juice and why its called plum wine, not prune wine. I think you guys have answered that question with this experiment, which is probably prune wine. As always, great video!
@stevelloyd5014
Жыл бұрын
I made a plum wine from frozen Italian plums (purple skins). And from fermenting with the skins it came out with a colour similar to gas, so I called it plumaline wine! It was about 8.5% and lovely to drink/sip cold on a hot summer evening!
@stephenstevens4153
Жыл бұрын
Cotes Des Blanc is known for leaving some residual sweetness. I tend to use it for my ciders because it works well with apple.
@diablominero
Жыл бұрын
Iirc at least some of the residual sweetness is from glycerin produced by the yeast.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
They produce glycerol and it’s an alcohol not a sugar :)
@eddavanleemputten9232
Жыл бұрын
One of the things I noticed about stalls is that there is a correlation with front-loading all the nutrients. If you supply all the nutrients at pitch, the yeast can get ‘lazy’ or turn into ‘fussy eaters’. I’ve now changed to kind of a ‘quick-and-dirty’ staggered nutrient schedule. I either don’t add nutrients at pitch, or only add roughly 1/3rd of what I would add in total. After 24 hours I add my first third. Then I wait 48 hours, add another 1/3rd. Then I wait 72 hours and add the last 1/3rd. Seems to work. The stuff I use is a Fermaid-O ‘clone’ sold by a local home brewing store. It comes from Germany and claims to be an organic nutrient. Looks and smells like Fermaid-O. The package doesn’t give a whole lot of information, claims to be a balanced mixture of yeast hulls, vitamins and minerals of organic origin. About your plum wine: I think this one is ‘suffering’ from a combination of low pH and the naturally occurring sorbitol interfering with fermentation. In other words: I just happen to agree with you. 😊 Soda wine: that would be a very interesting addition to the Franken-brews. As long as you can manage to find a soda that doesn’t contain too many preserving additives that mess with fermentation. Commercial plum wine: you’d be surprised at how often ‘plum wine’ is a distilled spirit infused with plums. Another method used both in Korea and in Japan is to pack fresh plums with sugar until all of the sugar or most of it dissolves. The resulting syrup is used for other purposes. The plums are then added to either a wine (sake or similar) or to a distilled spirit) to flavour that alcoholic beverage. If and when desired, the syrup or part of the syrup is used as well to blend to satisfaction. On the subject of blending: to any ‘purists’ out there, who might start tooting their horn about not adding a commercially produced beverage to a home brewed one in order to end up with something pleasant, my take is that if it yields something pleasant and you started out with something home brewed, it’s essentially home-brew. It’s no different from using mayonnaise from the store to make your own salad dressing. To those who toot on about ANY blending, even blending two home brewed alcoholic beverages in order to end up with something to your liking, my reply is that if wineries and champagne houses that charge hundreds of dollars per bottle are okay with blending different batches, why the heck should I have an issue with it? Currently I’m tinkering with an elderberry mead based on elderberry juice from Aldi. It’s WAY too tannic and bitter. I’ve already poured in an entire 750 ml bottle of traditional mead, no added tannin (original yield was around one gallon). I also added vanilla in an attempt to balance it out. I’ve pasteurised the brew before starting to tinker with it just to be on the safe side. It’s better but still not where I want it. Now I’m pondering what else I can add in to fix that brew. Not sure what I’m going to add. The good thing is that it’s sitting under airlock, I’ve got time to figure that out. After all, I’m not a KZitem content creator who needs to get videos out. And the brew has too much promise to dump out.
@edschaar2868
Жыл бұрын
A couple of thoughts: 1) I wonder if by not going back to single strength (recommended dilution), your pH was lower and effected the yeast? 2) I also would wonder what type of plums were used? By the color I'm betting they are European plums (Damson, Stanley, etc.). Which are generally a lower brix and have a higher TA% than most Japanese plums.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Possible!
@kevinm919
Жыл бұрын
I mostly make beer but enjoy watching your channel , i have made apple cider and have a ginger beer fermenting right now after watching this channel
@christophergrierson904
Жыл бұрын
Love your videos! Just wondering if having an airlock on your must during the initial stage (first few days) of your ferment may be the cause of your stalling issues. Just a thought. Thanks again for this wonderful channel 😊
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Why would having an airlock cause a stall? If you mean it needs oxygen... we aerate at creation. Also, we have had... half a dozen to a dozen stalls out of hundreds of brews but we always use an airlock :)
@drmike5507
11 ай бұрын
I had to go back a revisit this video. The first batch of plum wine I made 4 years ago ( from actual fruit) was the best plum wine I’ve ever had. The following years they were close but not as good. This years batch dried to .996. It’s been sitting on oak for two months and still bitter. Was hoping not to back sweeten but will probably have to. It think it all comes down to the fruit. Plums harvested from same area but with the crazy weather we have up here in Western NY it effects the sugars, tannins and everything. May still rack into gallon jugs( I made five gallons) and let them continue to age and maybe just sweeten a gallon as needed.
@rockynate
Жыл бұрын
No one can go wrong quoting Blazing Saddles. Unless there is a Holy Grail reference that is better.
@Mi-un6rs
Жыл бұрын
Hi, i've been watching you guys for a lil while and I wonder have you guys thought of making Socată? It's a Romanian drink that's fermented to have carbonation, do you guys think you could make a "brewed" version of it?
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
We can look into it.
@joeljohnson3509
Жыл бұрын
If Mom likes it, I would absolutely make it. So, the combination is equal to slightly diluted and slightly sweetened? Awesome job!
@jordandimick8861
Жыл бұрын
Ok ok, so question on this, the concentrate that you bought, was it just boiled off plum juice? I’ve been having this romance in my life with growing my own fruit to brew things up, still a few years out from my trees producing. However, my buddy has a plum tree that is killing it right now, it’s the yellow flesh kind and I haven’t had the chance to juice them and take a reading. However, let’s say that reading is lower than what I wanted, could I take that juice, boil it down to reduce the amount of water, or should I simply add sugar to get the reading I want? Curious if adding an additional concentrate will be too much of a kapow of flavor, or if it will be a welcome thing. What are your thoughts?
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
I don’t know how they concentrated it really.
@patrickmoss7254
Жыл бұрын
More mad scientist mixing!!!
@sn1000k
Жыл бұрын
The red bucket of sanitization KICKS ASS!
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
It doesn’t even have feet..
@lisatressler6790
Жыл бұрын
Love how you adapt to the circumstances. Derica, have you ever tried bourbon filled chocolate covered cherries? If not, I highly recommend. I order each Christmas from Esther Price, but I'm guessing other people make them also.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
She said she doesn’t think she has had those. I mean… now I want them, so…
@joeljohnson3509
Жыл бұрын
I’m considering oaking some of my slightly tart meads for a month to see what happens. Have you tried that? I know, I should sort through your videos. You’ve probably already posted a video about it. But I’m just asking anyway. 🤙💯💕
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
We have many times, yes.
@marklorrow1667
Жыл бұрын
Yes please try one of the cola drinks and me personally I would try two of them one being the jolt because of the Suger and caffeine amount and the other is your choice on what you're flavors are. It would be very interesting to say the least. I would have but with all the ingredients in a coke beverage of any type you would be looking at a hard stall so us as the people who love your content would ask if you would be willing to do the hard work for us so we would know. Thank you so much for your content I love your show more than anyone else you have the best information out there and fun to watch and thanks so much for putting your videos together so we don't have to wait to watch it all over multiple shows. I would rather watch one show that's a hour long rather than 3 or 4 small ones ware I already forgot everything and don't want to go back looking for it yes I am lazy but your show is the best 🙏🙏🥰😂🤣
@glleon80517
Жыл бұрын
Fortifying fruit wine with neutral grain or grape spirits is a great way to get both the sweetness you want and the proof you want. The spirit stops further fermentation so no pasteurization is required. You can calculate the proof using the Pearson Square method. This is how Port is made. You can avoid the wine tasting dilute by using high proof spirit, like Everclear. No taste change, the sweetness you want at the proof you want. Thanks for the video!
@mattcy6591
Жыл бұрын
Plums, shochu, sugar, time.
@CitizenRobertK
Жыл бұрын
I made plum mead earlier this year. 36 lbs of plums and 8 lbs of honey. I keep forgetting about the concentrates. Probably far cheaper. But mine is very plum-y and honey-y. A little malic to bump up the acid. The tannins from the skins was on point.
@dailykilluminati1310
Жыл бұрын
You guys should make a mini series fermenting all kinds of sodas just to see what the result will be.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
We just did IBC Root Beer.
@tylerhachey6009
Жыл бұрын
Hey guys, first off I wanna say that ive been watching your channel for about a month now, mostly mead making as thats what im currently working on, and i very much enjoy how informative your videos are and i enjoy the true to brewing mentality that naturally comes out as a result. Im also curious about the idea of making a hard cider using apple sauce (and maybe some other frout sauce blends for extra flavour) and wondering how it would turn out. However im not exactly sure the best route of action, I have also pondered the idea of honey or even agava necture as a source of added sugars and flavours over the use of a standard store shelf white sugar. Any advice and pointers would be appreciated.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Not sure applesauce would be better than juice tbh. As for the other sweeteners and fermentables… we have made videos on fermented honey and agave. We use honey to sweeten most meads and agave to sweeten our agave mead. It’s personal taste really.
@tylerhachey6009
Жыл бұрын
@@CitySteadingBrews I may try using apple sauce out of curiosity, i will defenately look for your videos in regards to using agave and catch up on those. If your intrested i will get back to you on results of using apple sauce and how i did it.
@tylerhachey6009
Жыл бұрын
@@CitySteadingBrews also i would like to thank you guys for taking the time to responde, i appreciate it very much.
@dhudach
2 ай бұрын
I just stumbled on this video, maybe because I just started a 1 gallon batch of plum wine from plums. So this is a bit of a side trip to hit on two topics you mentioned. The first is the possible need for a blow off tube. I'm using a 2 gallon bucket for my wine and after only about 9 hours fermentation was so active that it literally blew the liquid out of the airlock!! It wasn't spewing junk from the bucket, it was just due to fermentation gas being so active and strong. So I replaced the airlock with a blow off tube. The bubbling is like an atomic clock now, very active and very steady. So I'm thinking I'll just use a blow off tube in these bigger bucket batches. Ok, topic number two, calculations. Trust me, this is eventually going to lead to a question so hang in there!! Typically I like my target OG to be around 1.100. So I did a bit of research and found that my 5.25 lbs of plums equates to about .0253 SG. My initial gravity reading was 1.040. I added enough sugar to get to 1.080, knowing that the plums will contribute. So I'm thinking my actual SG (not measured) is 1.105ish. After fermentation is complete, I'll take a gravity reading. From that I will calculate ABV. Now, here is my question. Do I subtract my FG from 1.080 OR do I subtract it from the original gravity plus the SG from the plum sugar? Or, maybe I subtract the FG from the OG plus some percentage of the SG from the plum sugar. Whew. It seems like this might be important. And I'm sure you had to have touched on this in one of your videos, I'm just not sure which one. I mean you do have a few videos on your channel!!!
@CitySteadingBrews
2 ай бұрын
It's all estimation really. Without a lab you won't know for sure, but you can add the plum sugars and use that as your og as at least some of those sugars would ferment.
@dhudach
2 ай бұрын
@@CitySteadingBrews That makes sense. And precision isn't the goal. I suppose I was wondering in these situations, when I decide what I want my OG to be, approximately how much should I add to it based on the the sugars in the fruit. And I was also wondering how you handle this situation. Thanks for the great content.
@marcellacruser951
Жыл бұрын
That was fun watching you guys puzzle that over and find a solution. I just cut a batch of pomegranate with a bottle of Reisling, but I'm thinking that may have been unwise bc now I like it too much.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Lol
@ramonsalvatierrahealer
Жыл бұрын
Hi great video, great on math too!hahha I have a question why don't use red star premiere rouge yeast?
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
We have used it.
@stephenlaverack289
Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry to have to say this but you two are now officially brilliant, in my oppinion. I made plum jerkum, plum cider/wine, definitely vile, unbelievably so. Fed it sugar until the yeast gave up and a year later added it to the tail ends of cider that I'd accumulated and ended up with an acidic but drinkable product. As you say that is the fun of home brew. Brilliant video, by the way. If you ever come over to the UK we would be delighted to introduce you to some Yorkshire cider..🍺
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Lol. I am sorry you had to admit that…
@benway23
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your work.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
@ghoppr71
Жыл бұрын
This was right up there with the Kilju vid as far as hilarity. BTW, y'all used to use whiskey stones to test the sample chilled.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Yup. They are still in the freezer, lol.
@uqox
Жыл бұрын
I'm going to try this with dried plums. I suspect that would reduce the tartness and enhance the plum flavor. This was very interesting.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
It will probably be a very different experience. Dried fruits taste quite different from fresh or juices.
@BusinessEnglishSuccess
Жыл бұрын
Interesting video, especially as I have a bucket of plum wine in primary (made from actual plums). I wonder if you have a thought on something else though ... If there are non-fermentable sugars and it stops at 1030, would it make sense to add sugar to bring it up to 1050 or even 1060 and see if it would ferment back down to 1030 again? Or would the combination of alcohol and non-fermentable sugars somehow prevent this from working. The idea would be to end up with the desired alcohol level.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
There are some that say the sorbitol interrupts normal fermentation. I tried researching and didn’t get too far. What you are suggesting is simply step feeding. Might work, may just make it even sweeter :)
@BusinessEnglishSuccess
Жыл бұрын
@@CitySteadingBrews ok, thanks - I guess try it and see next time 🙂
@the_whiskeyshaman
Жыл бұрын
Wow that took a turn. Love it though it’s your brew make it how you want. ❤
@SouthValleyKnifeCo
10 ай бұрын
"We accidentally hit the right numbers" [Task Failed Successfully]
@jbaidley
Жыл бұрын
We have plum trees, so we make plum wine directly from the juice of the plums with some added sugar. Works really well.
@mattcy6591
Жыл бұрын
Stable to stable is probably a bad idea. Especially if one is "stable stalled" and the other stable kicks it off again
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
It sat under airlock for weeks to be sure.
@mattcy6591
Жыл бұрын
@@CitySteadingBrews good call
@dolphard
Жыл бұрын
I've never tried plum wine, but used to really like plum brandy.
@rachellemazar7374
Жыл бұрын
My father used to buy plum wine, what a weird combination of cloyingly sweet and tart. I looked it up and it is not a brew but ,it is made by steeping the little green ume plums in liquor, such as shochu. I’m sure yours is an improvement😁
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Lol
@bartlester591
Жыл бұрын
To answer your question it went out of business in 2009 however, I just read your article. It says Joe Cole will be coming back for one year exclusively to Dollar General stores.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Do you mean Jolt Cola?
@Floating-in-space
Жыл бұрын
You should try to make a “vermouth” one day! Or, you know, an aromatized fortified wine, inspired by a vermouth - with your own spin on it of course!
@davidcrawford1226
Жыл бұрын
i have been watching yalls videos for about 3 months now and got really into making meads i have learned alot from yall and cant thank you enough. But i have 2 questions to ask 1 why have yall not made a peach mead yet, and the other is what is the difference from and yeast energizer and yeast nutrient ty very much.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Peach is my nemesis. It's been mentioned in a few videos. That said... working on it. Energizer is usually DAP and we prefer not to use it.
@davidcrawford1226
Жыл бұрын
@@CitySteadingBrews had to look up dap and didnt know about that i prefer not to use a bunch of chemicals also but with my inexperience i listened to the brewery store we have and they said that we need that for meads due to lack of nutrients for the yeast and that it was safe and no chemicals... but i made a peach mead with 1 pound of peaches, 8 ounces of lapsang souchong black tea, (its black tea with a awesome wood smell and flavor really recommend) 2 1/2 pounds of wild flower honey and a cinnamon stick my starting grav was 1.120 with 71b for yeast and it over flowed extremely bad is that do to me using the energizer and the nutrient together? ty for the response this is awesome
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
It’s fine… just unnecessary and that home brew shop lied. Totally using chemicals. Some are helpful, some less. Nutrients in the form of fermaid O imho are great. DAP, less so.
@diablominero
9 ай бұрын
The plum variety that's used to make prunes has a bunch of sorbitol (a non-fermentable sweetener) in it. Maybe a variety like that was used to make your plum juice concentrate.
@CitySteadingBrews
9 ай бұрын
That's possible.
@larryakre5942
Жыл бұрын
..ished. You know as well as I that when heating a sugary liquid to concentrate it the likely hood of non fermentable sugars being created increases. That said I would consider it a (high test ?) Cider. Maybe carbonate a bottle or two as an experiment. Thanks again for another creative & inspiring concoction ☺️ Cheers!
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
I doubt it makes that much though.
@MirrimBlackfox
Жыл бұрын
Plums (prunes) have Sorbitol (an unfermentable? sugar alcohol) naturally occurring, it is part of what gives dried plums (prunes) its laxitive effect (that and the fiber). So that could be part of the strangeness with the fermentation.
@hapmaplapflapgap
Жыл бұрын
Japanese plum wine from my understanding usually uses young green plum instead of the ripened purple plum that we use. That could explain the color and the lack of cherry/tarty notes
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Yup
@drewtusgaming3740
Жыл бұрын
You leveled it out and made plumb wine
@YukonKornelius-ur4xw
Жыл бұрын
I have a question for you guys but, sorry, it doesn't really pertain to this video! So after watching your video where you guys made the 3 different meads and added fruit at different stages of fermentation in each one but they all tasted the same in the end, I've decided to make viking blood 2020 but add EVERYTHING into secondary. Do you think that will pan out ok and if so, could I just start making generic meads and putting all the additions into secondary?
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Yep it’s fine. The second part is up to you. Might miss some essence of the fruit, but if it works for you, you should make things that way :)
@YukonKornelius-ur4xw
Жыл бұрын
Gotcha! Thank you so much!
@MrTacklebury
Жыл бұрын
It's a blend, lots of wines are blends of several varietals.
@BobGrimminger
Жыл бұрын
It makes sense to me that a "serving" is of the product as packaged, though you could add additional information like cereal boxes do for adding milk. But water doesn't change any of the nutritional facts.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
I agree, but that's not how they did it. Water totally changes the density of all the ingredients.
@benjaminmaherhorsify
Жыл бұрын
What do you think about a 1.092 with apples and the d47 yeast? This is my first meas and a bit of an experiment but watching a bunch of your videos.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
As a starting gravity? Sure.
@Operator8282
Жыл бұрын
Could the fact that you did not "unconcentrate" the juice all the way contribute to the tartness you have experienced? Or the stall? Not a hostile question, but trying to get more info.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Not sure. If they intended it to be diluted further, their brix levels were just wrong. Without diluting may have concentrated tart flavors… double edged sword that could have been dulled if they gave accurate or at least less obtuse information on the label :)
@Operator8282
Жыл бұрын
@@CitySteadingBrews Gotcha. Probably the result of having several lab techs working the info, but not on the same sheet of music. One doing making the info for the concentrate "as is", and the other making info or the water added product, and nobody checked the math. Thanks for the quick reply! I appreciate your work.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Could be that, yeah.
@BobsYourUncle429
Жыл бұрын
Can you two please make a Blackberry Wine? Blackberrys are my favorite berry. I have harvested over three pounds of Blackberrys and frozen them while waiting for a good recipe. My KZitem research has found that there is quite a mystic about Blackberry wine. There appears to be hundreds of ways to make it and most of them have scared me. Can you show us the best and correct way to get the best product? Thanks.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
You could just use any of our berry wine recipes really. If we ever had enough blackberries we could make one though :)
@dirtybird99
Жыл бұрын
Has anyone mentioned that it might be SOOO tart and over the top is simply because it wasn't thinned out according to the directions? That immediately pops into my mind as they are doing their tastings. And extra half gallon of water or what ever it was that would normally be used might just account for that difference.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
It’s possible. Seems odd to make 8% wine if you have the option to go higher :)
@bartlester591
Жыл бұрын
I was going to suggest that if you want to try something a little bit different as far as sweet and yet there are a couple of things that I would suggest after doing some intensive research, sorghum or agave nectar. You could also try just liquid cane sugar just a thought.
@jackfoo2
Жыл бұрын
win i seen the title i got so excited. im currently hoarding wild plumb's . if your willing to pick up the shipping i will fill a flat rate usps box and send it your way
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
It’s fine, thanks. We don’t have an immediate use!
@chucklasher6061
3 ай бұрын
You'd almost need to know what the wine gravity was before they added the plums so you know how much sugar was in it to begin with in the commercial one
@Legion_One3
Жыл бұрын
If only distilling was legal where you are, this would've turned into a rakija (rak-iya) video😅which is a strong traditional Serbian spirit👌🏼
@not-on-pizza
Жыл бұрын
The numbers on that were kinda weird, yeah. I suspect that the 1.3227 gravity (65 Brix) is probably accurate for the concentrate, given where your diluted gravity ended up.
@moniquelevesque8756
4 ай бұрын
Thank you very entertaining Could a plum mead be a better option?
@CitySteadingBrews
4 ай бұрын
It's just another option, I wouldn't say mead is inherently better or worse than wine though.
@Little_Dog664
Жыл бұрын
@City Steading Brews Something I would love to see you try. Freeze tried juice of your fruit of choice. Freeze drying will give you the most Concentrated fruit flavor possible. for example of what to make. What would a cider taste like if you had the strongest apple flavor possible?
@stanleygrover1685
Жыл бұрын
You had me laughing!
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
In a good way I hope?
@nickbledsoe
Жыл бұрын
What I find interesting is that it stalled after going thru 60 points. Which is about how much sugar the label said was in there. It could have stuff in it that made it thicker, making the gravity show that it's higher than it is? not sure just speculating.
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
Doubtful… but an interesting theory.
@einar533
Жыл бұрын
I had the pleasure of visiting a comertial cidery, with a tasting. They had made a test batch of an apple ice-cider that absolutely stunning, with a extremely rich taste. Have you thought about making a cider on an apple concentrate (bought or made by freezing and thawing) to get more taste?
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
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@nekobat1962
8 ай бұрын
Wine blends are perfectly fine. Commercial wineries sell blends.
@ericelcock2248
Жыл бұрын
i would have been too nervous to not pasteurize
@CitySteadingBrews
Жыл бұрын
We let it sit under airlock for a few weeks before bottling :)
@Madness-go3uk
Жыл бұрын
Okay I think Maybe I actually figured out the right way to say it you made real plum wine and mixed it with actual plum wine LOL my head hurts
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