Has Anyone Made

[fudgefudge]

beetroot wine

[paddywak]

I've got a recipe for it if you want one but I've never tried it so I don't know what it's like.I have been told though that it is very important to use a dark demi-john and bottles as otherwise it eventually goes a horrible "muddy" brown colour.

[hc4361]

Yes! It's lovely - very full favoured and warming, similar to port. I make it every year.

[melv16]

Try hitting it with a stick :-)

[Svejk]

No, but I've mashed potatoes.

[retrocop]

I've made a bubble squeak. :-)
Hc. Love Port with cheese. Is your recipe complicated?

[-SharonA-]

No but I've had a beetroot punch made with condensed milk.

[Old_Geezer]

I find it difficult to comprehend how an ingredient as unpleasant as beetroot could result in a wine as pleasant as port. Are you sure there aren't some rose tinted tastebuds and wishing thinking involved ? If not, where can one find the recipe you use ?

[ummmm]

I've just looked it up OG and apparently it doesn't taste like beetroot. Looks pretty easy to make.

[hc4361]

retrocop, nothing complicated about it.

4lb beetroot
3/4 pint red grape concentrate
1/2 oz tartaric acid
1/4 oz malic acid
1/4 teaspoon grape tanin
2lb sugar
1 tsp pectin acid
1 tsp yeast nutrient
2 Vit B1 tablets
Burgundy type yeast
Campden tablets

[hc4361]

It doesn't taste anything like beetroot, OG

[retrocop]

Thanks hc
I guess I will have to try that one next year.

[woofgang]

but that’s not beetroot wine, that’s grape wine with beetroot in.

[hc4361]

That is 7 pints of beetroot juice with 3/4 pints of grape juice. That's beetroot wine.

[Old_Geezer]

Cheers. Must find time to try it. Probably a little late for Xmas 2015 though.

[fudgefudge]

ive made it started in november fermented it and bottled, great not like port a little dry, no taste of beetrrootoot used 2 litre of beetroot juice from tesco yeast sugar hey lovely

[hc4361]

:) Thanks for the feedback