First forray into making wine

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ni9e

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Ok thought about making wine for a while but tonight I finally got round to giving it a go...... twice in fact.
First off I used pure grape juice from aldi @ 56p a ltr so bought 4 added one tsp citric acid one tsp yeast nutrient and one pack of wilkies wine yeast. SG was 1072 so I never added any sugar I have no idea how this will turn out but hoping for something drinkable :pray:

Ingredients

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All thrown into DJ and yeast added

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After a vigourous shaking air lock attached and put in pride of place :D

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Second up was the strawberry wine from wilkies followed the instructions on the tin but also treated the water with half a crushed camden tablet. It smelt fantastic when making if it tastes half as good as it smelt i'll be happy :grin:


Ingredients

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The pint of genius was not an ingredient but essential for the making of the wine highly recomended :rofl:


Finished and taken pride of place next to the grape juice concoction

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All in all an easy step into winemaking just hope the results are worth waiting for but fun never the less :thumb:
 
Sounds like you enjoyed putting those together ni9e :thumb:

Looking forward to seeing how they turn out - you never know - i may be tempted myself :shock: :)
 
Wez said:
Looking forward to seeing how they turn out - you never know - i may be tempted myself :shock: :)

Go on you know you want to if I can do it anyone can :rofl:
 
:grin:

I will this year - you've made it sound real easy too - :clap:
 
you've still got that Genius?!?! you must've brewed that about 2 months ago IIRC?

nice one on the double brewday mate :thumb:
 
BrewStew said:
you've still got that Genius?!?! you must've brewed that about 2 months ago IIRC?

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I made 2 brews then a drought of a month because SWMBO was due so i'm on my second keg now with a brew day planned for next week :party: i'm gonna try a amarillo genius next :thumb:
 
welcome to wine making :thumb:

i hope the results are good and you are encouraged to do more
 
crE said:
The strawbeery wine looks awful red - is it actually a strawberry red wine? - I imagined it being more like a rose :hmm:

It does look dark but i'm driving blind I suppose it'll go lighter as it ferments there both bubbling away merrily :grin:
 
Update on the Aldi grape juice wine it is suprisingly a very tasty wine a bit dry but very drinkable.
For my first attempt at making wine I am cuffed that the end result is drinkable if anyone is thinking of making it I cannot recomend it enough :thumb:
 
Strawberry is still clearing I had a sneaky taste last night it is very nice I'm of to wilko's to get another one as when its bottled it won't last long :D I'm gonna put on a white grape juice on next aldi trip :thumb:
 
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