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wine made from coconut or vanilla or mint
Hi Everyone,
I did a search and found there is already a banana wine and on further investigation that someone on here has perhaps made it too - will have to try that.
Not being a lover of grape wines; I am very interested in homemade ones that have lots of flavor other than grape - like the ginger & lemon or the coffee wine.
Then I thought, if the basis of most wines is the flavoring, water, sugar and yeast, would it be possible to use cake flavorings/essences, thus creating the opportunity to have coconut or vanilla or mint wine.
Does anyone think this would be possible or is it just the ramblings of an insomniac with nothing better on her mind than alcohol?
Thanks!!!
Hi drew,
The essence of alcohol is water sugar and yeast plus flavor, but that's not wine. The essence of wine includes tannin, and sinuosity other weird and wonderful things. I know Jelly Golden and Oz Clarke are desperately annoying with their pretentious talk of pencil shavings and mown grass, but there really is more to wine than just falling-over juice.
.Having said that, please do experiment and let us know how you get on. Like Wombat says there are alcohols and liquors made from all kinds of things and with all kinds of flavors in. I would guess you'd have more success making a basic alcohol from whatever you have plenty of, say potatoes, and then adding the flavors afterwards, rather than making a vanilla-flavored syrup and fermenting that. But try it both ways and let us know how it turns out.
Good Luck!!
Hi drew,
Having read the coffee wine recipe from Loath and seeing that it is literally just
coffee, water, sugar and yeast, I think my idea of the essence could work. Problem
will be getting the quantities of sugar right, perhaps have to read the amounts for several
different types of wine and guesstimate from that! Obviously will let u all know how I get on. Waiting for reply from my friend who has said in another thread about making banana wine, quite fancy that. Have found a link with a recipe if anyone is interested.
Cheers!!
This is an eye opener. Growing up near stuffy "grape" country, I always numbly assumed to be "wine" you had to have grapes as a base. Can the drink be called "wine" and be accepted as such in the drinking circles if it is not made of grapes?
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