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gimme your address moley, i`ll be down to yours for christmas, easter, spring, summer and autumn!!!!!!!!!!!

aNY THAT I STORE IN THE ATTIC OR SHED GET THESE ON. sorry for caps; basically i just get a pan of boiling water gently simmering, place the cap on the bottle, and invert (turn upside down) holding th cap in place with my finger, then slowly dip into the water, the moment it hits the water it...

tiz true, not happened to me, but i always add cooled water / juice or whatever to my `johns` first before adding any hot stuff ;) hope it turns out ok, for £4 worth a punt ;)

as far as i know the process of fortification is. brew wine, when you get it to the point you want it at (sweetness / dryness etc) add some high strengh alcohol, i.e. vodka , this will not only up the alcohol levels and fortify it, it will also kill the yeast and stop the fermentation, this is...

sorry my mistake, i forgot he was doing a `wurzel` thought this was just a run-o-mill juice wine ;)

well the tinfoil you could possibly get away with for the initial fermentation as far as i know, i think it matters more after its finished as not a layer of carbon dioxide to kill any nastys, but even still though from e-bay you can get all the kit you need for very very little delivered...

literally i just cut a hole in the very bottom of the vimto bottle and stuck my filter feed pipe in there, and sealed with a hotmelt glue gun, then just poured in my wine to be filtered and it did the trick, by the time that i had filled it i had to refill it lol it did it that fast. granted...

well what can i say, final rack today to a clean demijohn, gonna let it settle then put it through filter, but had a taste and WOW! superb, nearly as good as my rose fruit juice one. it was a little strong (ribena tasting) but i`m gonna dilute it anyway with white grape juice, as only now am i...

sorry it should be 1080. i smashed the blackberrys with my tatty masher and due to space limitations the only thing i can brew in is demijohns, i`m about the pour it out and strain it into a new clean demijohn and then i`ll top up with white grape juice, it will come out no probs once its been...

heh heh, more space than the missus, but i`m sure they will multiply over time ;)

well its definately one that you need to keep an eye on, it will bubble over if you over fill, but yesterday i decided to rack it and degass it, there was a nice sediment on the bottom but it was still going (fermenting with regular bubbles) but the syruppyiness of it started doing my head in...

well heres mine after day 3 in the blackberry house. smells very tart! heres what ive done so far from my notes Blackberry wine Started 09-09-09 1.2 kgs of black berrys washed and mashed up 2 litres of water 1 litre of grape juice added 750 grams of sugar and simmered to melt will be...

yep, i know some will call it tramp juice or whatever, but i was a bit partial to the old mad dog 20/20 when i was a young lad (not that long ago) and am just wondering how much spirit i should add to my wine to make it fortified. basically i have a 2 litre demijohn, thinking of doing some...

me myself, have racked numerous times with wines, at varying times, moley probably wouldnt like the amount of times ive done mine, but hey, i must like racking lol, however it is a learning process , and i have learned to be more `laid back`, being new to homebrew you have a tendency to want to...

i couldnt believe it myself, just gives me more incentive to go out and `pick` :D

well the time came to pick all me blackberrys from the hedges before they get the chop, managed to get about 800 grams (theres more to hopefully ripen in the next week or two before season end) so asked the missus to get me a couple of punnets to top up from the supermarket, bloomin eck! £1.50...

just out of interest have you degassed thouroughly? as most of mine now have been finishing after about 7 days with minimal airlock activity however ive left them thinking that they are still going, but as i have been learning , ive realised that they have a lot of gas in them, once ive...

yep, one of the wilkos one i use, i did actually chuck one of the old boots ones out, not really knowing how to use it :wha: but the red and white hand one i have works perfectly, gives me a sense of hard work going into all those wines lol. up to you though, if your gonna end up buying a...

there you go, seeing as i had me box out infront of me ;) the crappy shitty one is on the right, from wilkinsons, these came in a youngs packet, however the branded youngs one is much much better quality ;)

i only just figured how to use my hand corker after a few weeks, lol. anyway all my troubles where my actual corks, not the corker, i used the corks that wilkinsons sell, absolutly **** , really fragile cork, with big gaps in them. went over to leyland homebrew after seeing the corks my mate...