Cranberry Orange brandy

[Skid20]

Thought Id try someting new with a cranberry orange run. Started with 10 lbs of cranberrys and 10 lbs of oranges, froze them both, removed peels from oranges and put in blender to pulp, also pulped cranberries added water and heated to 90 deg and into the fermentor. Inverted 25 lbs of suger and dumped that into fermenter. Now I have about 25 to 30 gal total. made a starter then pitched 230 grams of redstar and it took off pretty good. after 3-days I found a bag of oranges I forgot to freeze and just quarted them up, squeezed them and put them in the fermentor rinds and all (possible mistake there). Next day it the air lock quit bubbiling.

I adjusted the ph at the begining to 6 had a SG of 1.045. I checked the SG and it was at 1.004. The ph was a bit high so I adjusted to the 5/6 range and repitched, ran a day and stalled or finished. Seems to me that between the fruit and the suger the ABV shoud be higher than 5.40. fermenter temp is about 85. Any thoughts?

[kiwi Bruce]

You posted this earlier this year, did it finish ? How does it taste ? The name alone sounds fantastic !

[TDick]

bump
wha happened????

[Shine0n]

1.004 I'd believe was done, could've gotten lower but not much for the effort needed.

It does sound right good though, I'd like to know how it turned out as well.

WEEEELLLLLLL. LOL