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Does anyone have a recipe for a strawberry flavored shine that has strawberry in the mash. Was hoping to come out with a clear flavored shine.

you have that many?

If you wanted to make a 10% five gallon wash, you only need about 137 pounds of strawberries to get you the around 7 pounds of sugar you'd need.

Or you'd have to use a lot of sugar and risk losing most of the strawberry flavor.

Strawberries are pretty low in sugar content: 5.1%. (http://www.thefruitpages.com/contents.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow)

BTW, word around the campfire is that Tim was paid some good money to say he made some strawberry shine (on Moonshiners) with strawberries in the mash. Personally think that's nonsense, but can never really know, right?

it takes 3-4lb of fruit to the gallon..a quart of strawberries weigh 1 lb.
so just fill you fermenter with berries,mash them down,,add 1lb of sugar
for each gallon.add nutrients,and top with water.

I am wondering about this myself. I am getting ready to bottle a batch of strawberry wine I made by one of the Jack Keller recipes. My experience is that the original taste of the strawberry came through in the wine. I used frozen strawberries from Costco which were very tart and not very complex, and the wine is the same. I don't know if this is important if you are gong to distill the must, as I am going to bottle this as wine.


In the future I will use farm bought berries in season for wine. Can you use the cheap frozen ones to make a good brandy?

I posted this question not to long ago lucky for you ppl answered it. I ended up doing two pounds of strawberries and about a pound of sugar in a gallon container as a test took over a week to ferment.
That being said the amount of strawberries required without sugar would actually be more than your container to hold.
The gallon i made did have some strawberry flavor after it was distilled, but not a whole lot.
secondly the taste of the sugar ferment made it not so good in my opinion.
IMHO I would just jet the berries sit in your finished product then reduce them with sugar like in Taters blueberry recipe in the tried and true section it is far more flavorful and i like the red haha.

the strawberry shine that i made was some of the best shine i have ever had. i put 2 lbs of berries per gallon of water. blended them up and put them in a BOP with water and boiled them for about 45 min. then cooled it to mashing temps and added enzymes and let it set for a few. after it set for a while and was still hot i added a pound of sugar per gallon of water in the fermenter. once it was cool i added wd distillers yeast with ag. and let it ferment. if you decide to use this recipe, make sure you put your fermenter in the bath tub or a big tub because it was a explosive ferment. i had a mess to clean up on the floor because of how much it foamed. but oh my god it was good.