A couple of years ago I made some watermelon wine, my first batch ever. It turned out really tasty and everyone liked it. Now I have only a couple bottles left. In that batch I added potassium sorbate and back sweetened a little.
So this time I wanted to go bigger. I found that you get about 1 gallon of juice from a single watermelon. So my ingredient list is very simple.
- 5 watermelons
- yeast KV1116
- sugar
- nutrient
The prep is actually a lot of work. You have to slice and scoop the watermelons to get all of the juice from them. I used a potato masher to mash them up, a hand mixer to further pulverize them, and then poured the juice into my ferment plastic bucket. I only started with four gallons at first. I tested the juice and it was about 7% sugar. I added sugar to get to around 22% since I like my wine strong. I put the lid on it and let it go. It was almost dry in a week. Some online friends said that this is not unusual with KV1116 and it has been hot which will speed things up too.
On September 22 I decided to move everything to the glass jugs. Only problem was I only had 3 gallon glass but I do have a 2 gallon plastic bottle that I bought and have used once or twice. So I swapped it out. I only had a tiny sip and it tastes good. It's still fermenting very slowly.
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