Another cheap attempt at fermenting something, this time using Tesco Summer Fruits Drink. Damn, it’s not even labelled as ‘juice’ – that’s how cheap we’re going with this. Anyway, initial ingredients are:

• 2 litres Grower’s Harvest Summer Fruits juice drink
  • Water, sugar, citric acid, flavourings
  • Apple juice from concentrate (28%)
  • Raspberry juice from concentrate (1%)
  • Strawberry juice from concentrate (1%)
  • Colour, vitamin C, Sucralose
• 250 grams brewing sugar
• 200 grams caster sugar (wanted more sugar, couldn’t be arsed to open another bag)
• 1-2 grams wine yeast nutrient
• 1 level teaspoon wine yeast
• 1 cup of strong black tea from 2 bags (tannin – why not?)
• 500 ml warm water for dissolving the sugar

Once I let this cool down from 26 ℃ to 19 ℃ the initial OG came in around 1.045 which is lower than I expected given the amount of sugar I tipped in, so this better ferment down to below 0.980 if I’m going to get the kind of ABV I’m hoping for. Since we’re up to temperature I pitched the yeast at 19.3 ℃ and gave it a gentle swirl so that it doesn’t all sit on top. Nothing to do now but wait.