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Turbo Grapefruit
Ok, I admit - this is getting to be a habit. 5 Litre batches are so easy to put together.
After a batch of Ginger Beer, I brewed some Lemonade. So last week I spotted grapefruit on special offer. So I immediately thought - Turbo Grapefruit!
2010-08-27 - Turbo Grapefruit ~ 5 Litres
500g White granulated cane sugar
3 Large Grapefruit peeled + squeezed
1/2 tsp. Cream of Tartar
1 tsp. Young’s Wine Yeast
1 x 5 Litre Mineral Water
Based upon : http://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/index.php/recipes-ginger-beer
Sanitise and rinse all equipment.
1 Grate the Grapefruit using grater. Only the orange part of the skin (no taking the pith)
2 - Boil as much water as you can get in your stock pot.
3 - Add grapefruit peel and fully squeeze grapefruit.
4 - Add sugar.
5 - Simmer for about 15 mins. and allow to cool off!
6 - Pour liquid in to fermentation vessel. I am using the 5 litre water bottle, drilled lid fitted gromet and airlock.
7 - Add water to make up to about 5 litres.
8 - Add Cream of Tartar and Yeast.
9 - Fit airlock
To Do:
10 - Cover and ferment for 4 days.
11 - Strain and squeeze the juice from the liquid and transfer to a clean fermenter until complete (usually about 5 / 7 days).
12 - Bottle in strong glass bottles adding 1 sugar cube of priming sugar to each.
.... Drink.
Responses
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Hi,
just wanted to say that these recipes of yours look great, might have to try 1 or 2 of them in a few weeks.
Just a couple of quick questions.
1) could I get away with bottleing them into empty 2 litre fizzy drinks bottles
2) does the wine yeast not leave it with a erm for want of better words "winey" taste. would it be better to use a cider or lager yeast? or will these not make it strong enough ?
thanks again for the idea.
Conditioning - Woodfords Great eastern ale, Parsnip wine, Rhubarb wine.
Brewing - nothing at the minute
Planing - Coopers ginger beer, 5L turbo peach thanks to bmsleight, maybe beetroot wine if there enough spare on the alotment,
Posted 1 year ago by Member
Hi,
Glad you like them.
1 - Empty 2 litre fizzy drinks bottles ? Why not. I tend to use empty 500ml Bottles. I spread the word at work and not have a stead collection of bottles left on my desk during the day.
2 - I have only tried the Ginger Beer so far. But no, no "Winey" taste. But to be honest the Ginger Beer tastes a lot of Ginger.
Cheers,
Brendan
Posted 1 year ago by Moderator
Sweet recipe dude! What the hell is that weird green bendy thang in the second piccy??? looks like some sort of sex-torture tool!
Conditionin' - LEB Pale
Conditionin' - Thwaits Nutty Black
Plannin' - A user upper!
Posted 1 year ago by Member
weird green bendy thang in the second piccy???
It can also be used to extract juice from the grapefruit.
Posted 1 year ago by Member
ok you've really got me hooked on this idea now. I some times buy peach nectar from lidl as a breakfast juice and was thinking of trying it with that. on the carton it says it has 150 grams per litre of carbohydrates but not how much sugar, I'm guessing that pritty much all of it is going to be sugar so the question is, is 150g of sugar per litre to much or not enough or like goldylocks would say just right?
I think I'd like it to come out some where around 6 - 8 % 
Conditioning - Woodfords Great eastern ale, Parsnip wine, Rhubarb wine.
Brewing - nothing at the minute
Planing - Coopers ginger beer, 5L turbo peach thanks to bmsleight, maybe beetroot wine if there enough spare on the alotment,
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