So after I visited Lidl today I find honey is now £1.35 a jar! The title of this thread is therefore somewhat misleading! Apologies if I mislead anyone by advising boiling honey to remove any preservatives. I must have had a senior moment and got my recipes confused! Still it remains far cheaper...
Yes, just use your everyday yeast as this is a pretty basic honey. More expensive honey would benefit from say a champagne yeast. Stand jars in hot water before opening. Rinse jars with hot water to get all contents out. Boil honey to remove any preservative and skim off any scum. Top up to 1...
If anyone fancies making mead and lives within striking distance of a Lidl store, you're in luck. Not having made mead for a number of years, mainly because of the high price of honey I was pleasantly surprised to find honey at 75p for a 340g jar in our local Lidl. So 3 jars makes a gallon at a...
We have had a plague of small flies this year. The other night I placed half a gallon of wine in a plastic lidded container in order to add finings. Unfortunately I found to my dismay I had run out of one item, so had to order a fresh supply. Whilst awaiting delivery by snail mail one of the...
I always add a couple of bottles of Asda red grape juice to my red wine fruit. Not only is it cheap - but enhances the colour and depth of flavour. If you picked wild berries it's quite possible your wine will be fairly pale as they don't get sufficient nutrients from the soil.
I'm lucky as there are enough rose hips where I live for me to be able to make as much wine as I have room for. I'm currently drinking last year's output and it does taste fruity. I only made 2 gallons this year as I'm trying to empty my shed.