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Ribena juice wine, NOT from cordial

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:03 pm
by WILDBREW
I have just started two gallons of Ribena juice wine :thumbright:

these are the ingredients to make one gallon.
1lt-Ribena juice. ( not cordial )
1lt-red grape juice.
1kg- sugar.
1tsp-GP yeast compound.
water.

Re: Ribena juice wine, NOT from cordial

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:53 pm
by narmour
Did you boil off the preservatives in the Ribena? Without doing that you may find its hard to get the ferment going.

Re: Ribena juice wine, NOT from cordial

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:45 pm
by WILDBREW
I used ribena juice it as no preservatives in it,it's not like cordial. :icon_smile:

Re: Ribena juice wine, NOT from cordial

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:46 pm
by GeorgeSalt
WILDBREW wrote:I used ribena juice it as no preservatives in it,it's not like cordial. :icon_smile:
Is that the pre-diluted cordial? or the 6% juice drink? :dontknow:

Re: Ribena juice wine, NOT from cordial

Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 5:58 pm
by WILDBREW
it comes in 1lt cartons/ribena juice.
I think it's the 6% juice drink,i made 2 gallons and the fermenting was very good and i did not
boil the juice first. :thumbright: :cheers: