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Good afternoon everyone, Not been posting again recently as all i have been doing us scrumpy and turbo. However I have recently found desperado! And I quite like it. So I am looking at making a clone as its very expensive off the shelf. Reading through previous posts there's not the usual...

Anyone started any this year yet? My wife picked a barrow full today. I got home from shooting and found the kitchen in complete devastation. She was only going to make elderflower cordial but then decided she fancied a medium to sweet wine. She couldn't wait till I got back so googled a recipe...

Started bottling today, first forty five bottles primed with muscavado sugar. 430 litres left to do, this will mostly being boxed, some will be keeved and some bottled as the Mrs likes a bit of fizz in hers. We've started emptying our trees and collecting from our sources. No idea how much we...

Morning all , I'm not going to make a large amount of cider this year in October, I'm instead going to only use all my juicing, eater apples, however all our cookers got knocked out in the late frost. So I was wondering if in place of the cookers I should add stewed tea to the apple juice to...

I've got quite a lot of both in my freezer, I rather fancy making up a gallon of this but unsure on how to go about it being frozen, I'm guessing once thawed add a few pounds of sugar and boiling water leave to cool and pitch yeast, leave in the bucket f for a week or so then strain into dj...

Today I have made up the yeast starter for my Apple juice I produced on Sunday afternoon, as recommended in the books I added 1 tablet per gallon and left over 36 hours as stated. Well I have just tasted the juice before pitching, it no longer tastes anything like what it did before and has a...

Afternoon all, I have begged, scrumped and been given roughly a quarter of a tonne of mixed apples. They are all nice and ripe, my patio smells gorgeous in the morning and evening. So, this weekend I'm hiring the necessary industrial equipment to process them. I've got some 45 gal barrels...

Hi folks, We had a reasonable crop of Apple's this year. Turned 8 chicken feed sack fulls into 23 gallons of great tasting juice. Hydrometer reading 1052 Unfortunately though I only have the acid papers to test ph, these are the rather ambiguous 1-11 type, not the 1-4 so possibly not a...

Started a gallon off today, cj berry recipe, but instead of using grape tannin I used 10oz of chopped sultanas. Decided to use ritchies desert/ aperetife yeast as I've been having good results with it. Trouble is it's already going like a train, definitely going to boil over! See how it...

Wondering if anyone's tried making this? Loads of ideas on how to go about it, unfortunately though, all a bit vague. Cheers, V.

Hiya folks! Quick about me, nearly fifty, done a fair bit of wine making from when I was 14, brewed full mash for a few years. until six months ago I went tea total for three and a half years. Decided the pub was no longer for me unless on holiday somewhere. I am fortunate to have a small...