Comments on: Know Your Ingredients: Cranberries http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/12/know-your-ingredients-cranberries/ Growing grapes and making wine in Bellevue Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joshua http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/12/know-your-ingredients-cranberries/comment-page-1/#comment-42505 Joshua Mon, 22 Nov 2010 19:38:17 +0000 http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/12/know-your-ingredients-cranberries/#comment-42505 I have a batch of cranberry wine going right now. I have also had very good cranberry wine. The maker (family) heated up the about 18 lbs of cranberries in water until they just got soft and then added sugar to bring it up to 12% potential alcohol for a 5.5 gallon batch. It makes a fantastic wine. It also blends amazingly well with apple wine if you back-sweeten it a bit. Feel free to email me if you would like more details. Joshua I have a batch of cranberry wine going right now.

I have also had very good cranberry wine. The maker (family) heated up the about 18 lbs of cranberries in water until they just got soft and then added sugar to bring it up to 12% potential alcohol for a 5.5 gallon batch. It makes a fantastic wine. It also blends amazingly well with apple wine if you back-sweeten it a bit.

Feel free to email me if you would like more details.

Joshua

]]> By: Erroll http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/12/know-your-ingredients-cranberries/comment-page-1/#comment-42056 Erroll Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:08:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/12/know-your-ingredients-cranberries/#comment-42056 <blockquote>Did you ever come up with a recipe that you liked for cranberry wine?</blockquote> Hello Joshua, I made a cranberry wine from concentrate, but it wasn't one of my favorites. I mentioned the acidity of cranberries in the post, but the wine was also rather tannic. I made it dry, so the tannin and acidity made the wine a little harsh. So now I think cranberries are better used as part of a blend to provide acidity or tannin (the way some people use elderberries). Another approach would be a sweet cranberry wine - using sugar to balance the acid and tannin. Have you made wine with cranberries? Erroll

Did you ever come up with a recipe that you liked for cranberry wine?

Hello Joshua,

I made a cranberry wine from concentrate, but it wasn’t one of my favorites. I mentioned the acidity of cranberries in the post, but the wine was also rather tannic. I made it dry, so the tannin and acidity made the wine a little harsh. So now I think cranberries are better used as part of a blend to provide acidity or tannin (the way some people use elderberries). Another approach would be a sweet cranberry wine – using sugar to balance the acid and tannin.

Have you made wine with cranberries?

Erroll

]]> By: Joshua http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/12/know-your-ingredients-cranberries/comment-page-1/#comment-42004 Joshua Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:57:28 +0000 http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/12/know-your-ingredients-cranberries/#comment-42004 Did you ever come up with a recipe that you liked for cranberry wine? or do you have any further thoughts than those above? Did you ever come up with a recipe that you liked for cranberry wine? or do you have any further thoughts than those above?

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