Pomagranate wine?

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Can anyone offer instructions for making Pomagranate wine? ...or point me to a useful website with related Pomagranate info?

thanks

-- Darren (wawqer@onemain.com), December 28, 2001

Answers

http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/index.asp is a site that was posted here a couple of weeks ago thats quite interesting.

The recipe I used is: 6 pomegranates, 1/2 pt. white grape concentrated juice, 6 pt. water, 1 3/4 lb. sugar, 2 tsp acid blend, 1/4 tsp tannin, 1 tsp pectic enzyme, 1 tablet yeast nutrient, 1 tablet Campden (crushed), 1 pkg. pasteur red active dry wine yeast. 1) Wash,peel and remove all yellow skin. Open pomegranates and remove all seeds. 2) Cut into small pieces and put in a nylon straining bag. Crush fruit and squeeze into primary fermenter. Tie end of nylon strainer with fruit inside and put into primary fermenter also. 3) stir in all ingredients EXCEPT yeast. Cover primary with a clean cloth or t shirt to allow fermenter to breath. $0 Add yeast 24 hrs later and re-cover fermenter. 5) Stir daily, pressing on pulp bag to aid extraction and check S.G. (specific gravity) daily. 6) When S.G reaches 1.050 ( about 5 to 7 days), squeeze out pulp bag and siphon the wort from the primary fermenter bucket into a secondary fermentation carboy and install a water lock. 7) after about 21 to 28 days the s.g. should be 1.000 and thumping will be practically stopped, siphon the wine off the lees into a clean carboy, reinstall water lock and let wine clear, settle and outgas. If a sweetened wine is preferred, at bottling add 1/2 tsp stabilizer, then stir in 1/4 lb dissolved sugar per gallon.

Hope this is of help.

-- Jay Blair in N. AL (jayblair678@yahoo.com), December 29, 2001.


wine can be made from almost any fruit or vegtable including carrots.

-- js (schlicker54@aol.com), December 29, 2001.

js, you are right, and if inventive enough, I suspect you could even use fenceposts. However, I have NEVER been able to make any palatable wine out of tomatoes. Have you? GL!

-- Brad (homefixer@SacoRiver.net), December 29, 2001.

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