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Sorted out some wine - filtered and bottled one gallon of parsnip, although the other one went cloudy again, racked the three gallons of rhubarb (which was really 2.5 gallons and racked down to 2 + a bottle), racked the two gallons of apricot and stopped the fermentation, made a gallon of Earl Grey just to see what it’s like.

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8 x fruit teabags of choice, 1kg sugar, 1 teaspoon yeast, 1 teaspoon nutrient, 2tsps lemon juice.

Pour boiling water onto teabags and sugar in a large jug and leave until lukewarm. Discard bags and pour liquid into a demijohn. Top up with water to the ’shoulder’ of the demijohn. Add yeast and nutrient. Fit a suitable airlock - and away you go!



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A friend who used to do a lot of home winemaking told me that I should get a filter kit to “polish” my wine.  They’re not cheap cheap (about £22 or so with carriage), so I trawled eBay and found somebody selling his father’s old Boots kit.  I offered him £8 including postage, and a deal was done, and it arrived this morning.  This is handy, as I ( Read more... )

I’m getting the hang of this winemaking lark now, and I’m much more confident than I used to be.  We did our monthly trip to Makro on Saturday (first time the car had been out for a fortnight!), and they had a 5kg bag of carrots reduced to £2.30.   “Wine!”, I thought, and bore the bag home in triumph, along with 96 cans of cat fud and other ( Read more... )

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Forgot to mention that we also siphoned perlmonger's red wine into a clean demijohn - what fun *that* was ... And did the last bit to my white wine, so I should be able to bottle it later this week. The apple wine is still glooping gently, so it can stay as it is for now ( Read more... )

I have a yen to start making wine - from fruit and/or veg, or from concentrate. I am a complete novice, so a trip to Waterstones will occur on Saturday (and may the lord have mercy on the bank balance).

Any tips or tricks gratefully received.