Kegging Wine Coolers Part 2

This post comes much later than I expected but I wanted to follow up with this post.  Due to a family move, the party I planned to serve this Strawberry “wine cooler” at didn’t happen.  Then other life stuff happened.  Then my temporary kegerator decided to formally retire and I had no way to chill/dispense kegs for awhile.  Long story short, I finally got to taste this experiment over 2 months later than planned.

Let me preface with:  I don’t like sweet stuff.  The strawberry wine is sweet.  The flavor is pretty good – definitely bold strawberry going on there.  I had way too much to fit into the keg and wound up with 3 liters of “still” wine.  The uncarbonated wine is far too sweet for me.  Others liked it, though.

Then I finished building my kegerator and got a taste of the carbonated “wine cooler” version.  The carbonation cuts the sweetness just enough that I didn’t mind drinking half a glass of it.  It’s a lighter flavor and mouthfeel but still plenty of strawberry.  I can definitely see this disappearing fast at a party.

My ABV came in right at 5% which is what I was aiming for since I figure people will drink this stuff faster than a regular wine.  I have a couple parties coming up that I might drag some kegs to so I’ll be able to get more feedback on this one.