If you drink a lot of grapefruit juice while taking certain statin drugs to lower cholesterol, too much of the drug may stay in your body, increasing your risk for liver and muscle damage that can lead to kidney failure. To sweeten this wine, at bottling, add 1/2 tsp. To aid in clearing, siphon again in 2 months and again, if necessary, before bottling. Siphon juice off sediment into clean glass container. reaches 1.000 (usually about 3 weeks), fermentation is complete. Then siphon juice into glass container and attach airlock. reaches 1.040 (usually 3-5 days), strain juice from bag. and press pulp lightly to aid extraction. Wait 24 hours, then add yeast and re-cover primary fermenter. Tie straining bag and put into primary fermenter.Īdd warm water and all remaining ingredients, except yeast.
Using the nylon straining bag (fine mesh) squeeze and strain juice into primary fermenter. Place fruit and grated rind in nylon straining bag. Grate rind from 6 grapefruits exclude any of the bitter white part. The recipe above is a general recipe to use which, you may have to adjust. As with all wild fruit the sugar and acid content varies greatly from year to year and even from one location to another. Keep your acid tester and hydrometer handy. This is profanity a good start to what I did. I made grapefruit wine a few years ago, maybe twice. When fermentation is over, cork tightly and seal with paraffin. Then siphon into clean sterilized bottles, cooking lightly. Stir twice a week.Īt the end of the three weeks, siphon off carefully into another clean gallon jar, avoiding any settlings at the bottom of the original jar. Set in a warm place to ferment for three weeks.
#Ruby red rose grapefruit wine free
Sprinkle dry yeast over the surface and cover with ordinary table saucers, bottom side down, so the the wine is free to work out from under them. This makes more than a gallon of juice reserve balance in a clean sterilized lightly corked bottle to fill the jars as the wine works over the top. While still hot, pour into original juice.Īdd sliced lemons and peppercorns. Strain to avoid seeds and white membrane, which impart bitterness.ĭissolve sugar in 2 cups of the grapefruit juice over a low flame. This wine is best made in a glass container, such as a gallon sized wide mouthed jar. but anyone with an interest in grapefruit wine might find this recipe useful. This thread is a bit old so advice won't help the OP. I am not sure but I think the grapefruit buffers the way that those meds are metabolized by the body and so increases the effects of normal doses - sometimes to the point of life threatening toxicity.But I am not a doctor or organic biologist, so I may be waaaaay off base here, however, if I were you I would make certain that anyone you offer a glass to knows that this wine is grapefruit One last point: people taking certain medications should not eat grapefruits. Grapefruit might be a good enough substitute for lemon. Check out recipes for Skeeter Pee (uses lemon juice). Oranges pair well with chocolate but I don't know how well cocoa and grapefruit go togetherĪ grapefruit wine might need to be made with a fair amount of residual sugar and you may need something to cut the acidity. CJJ Berry uses grapefruits (skin and juice) to pair with grape (white wine) concentrate but you might check out how grapefruits are used in fruit mixes and cocktails and the like - I think it pairs well with vanilla and with pineapple or mango. Remove the sweetness and the acidity may be overwhelming. I suspect that making a very drinkable grapefruit wine will be a real challenge.
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