double batch sugar champagne experiment

hey all
it may be an unpopular opinion but champagnes main flavor to me is basically the bubbles.
so to put this to the test I am making a double batch.
one gallon just with good old sugar and nothing else and another gallon using 250ml of homebrewing grape concentrate ( but it looks more like cider )
turns outs 250ml of vin class grape concentrate is around the 5/6% marks worth of sugar.
the hydrometer readings were basically trhe same which wasn't the plan but then again
as an experiment i guess similar percentages are good.
#cheaphomebrew #winerecipe #weirdwine

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[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

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Hey... Glad to see ya....i mean it, bro. I really hope that u ok, cuz this alcohol stuff is sketchy af (please believe my slavic bloodline here) but u know.. I believe in ya! You'll gonna TAME this beast, just like you always do! Carry on homebrewing dudes! (Sorry for my bad English - I feel too smashed by my homebrew rn.. Carry on fellas! Brew ur stuff! )

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Alcohol is the devil's work 😆 yeah, I'm doing much better. Glad to be back 🙂 well I don't know about Taming the beast, the occasional bite keeps it interesting 😁

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love your videos! you helped get me into homebrewing. glad to see you back!

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Hey, glad you found them useful 😁

[@IngloriousBastard1337]

with autumn around the corner, I would love to see you doing something with rose hip, the little berries that appear once a rose flower dies down. they are very popular in southern germany to make jam with ( delicious ). they are also dried and made into herbal tea blends.

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

I also have intentions of trying something with rose hips. Their use in jam making is excellent as they can be used to replace pectin to thicken jam. Just got to wait for them to ripen currently 😭

[@ledzep331]

@@makinghomebrewwildandcheap I've used rosehip powder with with apple juice to make a wine. It wasn't to my taste, but by "adding another step" I ended up with a great brandy.

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

@@ledzep331 the good old mystery step :D i was thinking something soft flavored like peach or apricots but i guess i will decide on what i can find that plentiful :P

[@jonsiverns8852]

Another brilliant experiment, really look forward to your videos. I don’t suppose you have any idea why it’s impossible to buy white grape juice anymore, a few years ago I made a lovely white wine with it. You can only get red now and that’s limited to at Asda and Sainsbury’s. Tried looking online, just going round in circles. I know there was a crop failure a few years ago . Was wondering if I could just use the concentrate that you had . Thanks for your hard work

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Well it's only brilliant if by the end it works 😜 I actually hadn't noticed you couldn't get white grape juice 😆 I tend to like reds more. You should be able to swap it out for the homebrewers white concentrate. I used 250 ml which is the small bottle size. The colour is a bit darker but should work the same

[@jonsiverns8852]

@@makinghomebrewwildandcheap thanks for responding, I might give it a go and mix it with sugar water and elderflower cordial 👍

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

@@jonsiverns8852 yeah cordial works quite well. I have some other plans for this 😆😜

[@wmtarr886]

further thought: surely kilju must have a native name in every place in the world where it has been made? should welsh-sugar-wine be daff-ju ? scots-sugar-wine taff-ju? yorkshire-sugar-wine t'brew? etc these basic drinks have existed as long as water, yeast and carbohydrates ... the idea that someone invented wine or beer is bizarre, i grew up in africa, I can tell folks for free, you don't need a recipe to make wine or beer, nature makes it all by itself. we just call it names

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

lets not forget the classic and most likely original fermentated sugar product......RUM !!!!! there would be most likey many different names for the same thing but over time one particular name sticks and well thats how its known.

[@nazteeb]

Awesomeness! BTW where do you get your conversion from? My hydrometer conversion table show 1.110 @ 15%. What am I doing wrong?

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

I take mine from the hydrometer. There's some variations depending where it begins. Some go to .980 but

[@nazteeb]

@@makinghomebrewwildandcheap thank you. 😁

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

Lol 😆 but it's roughly in the right area. Good enough for knowing.... Ish 😂

[@dawntheodore]

I didnt see you add yeast to the demijohn. Just nutrient 🤷‍♀️

[@makinghomebrewwildandcheap]

The yeast was added at the end after taking a reading