I have 3 gallons of the mango wine in my 3 gallon carboy. This has cleared nicely at 9 weeks. I have another gallon in a gallon jug which is not quite as clear. But really I didn't have much pulp at all when I used cut up mangos instead of canned mango pulp. I also used six overripe bananas in the batch to give it more body. I used my favorite D47 yeast here too. I've had really good luck with it and it is supposed to do really well with mango wine. Nice to hear from you again FF500. Have you done any further batches for your wife? I'm just starting a 6 gallon batch of Bartlett Pear Wine right now. I want to get a second 6 gallon batch of that going too as soon as I get my primary fermenter free.
I started my batch in mid September. Going to rack it soon again. Looking to stabilize it and backsweeten and bottle by mid April. Daughter is getting married in October so I want to have 15-20 bottles by then. I have 12 gallons of pear wine to be ready and bottled by then too.
I am so interested in this wine. My wife is in love with mango everything and loves sweet wines. This sounds like it's the ticket! I can't seem to find mango pulp locally and don't care to order it off amazon. Has anyone made their own pulp from fresh mangos? I found this you tube video that looks promising.
DIY Mango pulp video.
Estimated ABV is about 15% if it goes down to 1.000, at the upper limit of the yeasts tolerance. Anyone else have stories to share about FG?
When I added the wine tannin it clumped up. How concerned should I be about this?
I just threw a batch together with EC-1118 yeast. My OG was a bit higher than anticipated (1.133). Will report back with results.
This batch has cleared up significantly in the last 6 days (I used some sparkalloid after I transferred to a secondary carboy with a filtered siphon). I have about a 1/2" of sediment on the bottom of the carboy and still lots of CO2 escaping with very few suspended solids.
This has been a great learning experience. Lots of help from buzzerj and the rest of the crew here. Made some mistakes and have plenty of notes on when to do what for the next batch. I am going to stabilize in a couple weeks after I rerack to another carboy prior to bottling.
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