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Ray
 
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Default Controlling Strawberry Rocket fuel

If you are getting high octane from strawberries it is because you are using
too much sugar. Try cutting back considerably on you next batch. Use a
hydrometer and aim for 11-12%.

Now, what to do with it. Sweeten it up. If it is a little flat after
sweetening, add a bit of acid. Sweet wines call for more acid to balance
them out. Then serve it as a desert wine. If you really want to go off the
deep end and serve a great strong flavored desert strawberry wine -- after
you have sweetened and adjusted it, then serve it half and half with cream.
Strawberry wine and cream! You will be amazed!

Ray

"Tom" > wrote in message
...
> Two years in a row I am ending up with a strawberry wine with a wonderful
> aroma, taste and color but at a whopping 14%+ alcohol, way to hot for a
> country wine. Still not sure what I'm going to do with'em. Thinking

about
> blending with some of my reisling from 2003? My wife likes that idea!
>
> Anyway, I find pulp laden fruit very difficult to get decent SG readings,
> and despite reducing the sugar the second year it was still "hot". I

don't
> do many non grape wines so any suggestions to speed up the curve would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
>