Mango or chocolate flavor wines, ciders, or beer with ez cap

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In regard to chocolate fruit wine..... if you plan on using a powder, you will want to wait at least a good 3 months for the powder to break down and then allow time for aging, etc. You could try a chocolate extract for homebrewing, just visit your LHBS or order online. That way you could use the extract to taste, and if you are making a 2L batch it won't take much to get your chocolate component. I have also read where people have used the liquid Hershey's chocolate syrup with good effect, I would just check ingredient list. Oh, and there is a site, PittsburgSodaShop, that carries soda extracts, and they have a Chocolate Fudge extract, I bet you could use that in your recipe with decent results.
I made a really good, IMHO, berry wine...used 64oz container Juice Juice Berry, 2 cups granulated sugar, EZ cap yeast, and allowed to ferment for 7 days, enclosed in a soft sided cooler with a heating pad on LOW the entire time. It finished sweet, right where I like it. Next time I make it I am going to use my hydrometer before/after and determine my alcohol level. If I wanted to go chocolate with it, I would likely drop the sugar to 1 cup, start checking result at 5 days and then add the chocolate extract 1 TBSP at a time and backsweeten if needed. The only thing I don't know, since I have never used the flavored extracts for homebrewing, do you add the extract at the beginning or the end???