I have thought about making wine with real fruit many times but i am bone idle and buy the juice in, have a look at this thread if you haven't already seen it -
http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=49462
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1st fruit juice brew
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I have thought about making wine with real fruit many times but i am bone idle and buy the juice in, have a look at this thread if you haven't already seen it -
http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=49462
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Banana sounds tasty, I'm keeping to fruit juices for a while to build up some stock then I might venture into fruits.
I've went from 1 demijohn to 6 and a 23l fermenting bucket in the space of 2 weeks lol. Yep it's addictive
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I've went from 1 demijohn to 6 and a 23l fermenting bucket in the space of 2 weeks lol. Yep it's addictive
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Wine came out quite nice although I've learned one or 2 things.
I need a wine wand and drill. Shaking the gas out of a demijohn isn't fun or very effective.
Il.let the next one run longer and back sweeten using apple juice.
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That is the beauty of these juice wines you can mess about until you find the perfect combination and even the ones that are not great are still drinkable, i even managed to finish the original orange wine which was a bit :sick: to be honest.
Thanks to your help chippy and lots of posts on the forums I've got the confidence to put on a 7 gallon version of this in a large fermenting vessel.
This will provide me with a few month supply and free up the demijohns to get a bit more experimental.
Glad I found the forum. :)
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This will provide me with a few month supply and free up the demijohns to get a bit more experimental.
Glad I found the forum. :)
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Country wines usually take longer to mature so juice wines are a good stopgap whilst you are waiting. :thumb:
Decided to crack a bottle open tonight while at the computer editing some pictures.
First impressions are that it's easy drinking but still a tiny bit cloudy and has some gas still in it, but I'm happy that i'm drinking my own and not shop bought stuff.
Next purchase is a variable speed drill and a wine wand, oh and a new fermenting vessel to rack my current brew into :)
First impressions are that it's easy drinking but still a tiny bit cloudy and has some gas still in it, but I'm happy that i'm drinking my own and not shop bought stuff.
Next purchase is a variable speed drill and a wine wand, oh and a new fermenting vessel to rack my current brew into :)
When you think of the savings you are also making its a win win situation. :thumb:
I started with a couple of DJ's from charity shops and 5 litre water bottles with a hole drilled in the lid for airlocks, i have over time replaced the water bottles with DJ's most of which were from charity shops or adverts in my local paper so for me it was a fairly cheap set up.
I picked up all my stuff from gumtree, 6 demijohns, a 33 litre FV and 54 500ml PET bottles, all for less than ã50. Those will last a lifetime if taken care of properly and i'm looking forward to having a stash of drinkable fruit juice wine so i can experiment with some TC. I don't think I've the patience to wait on proper country wines though.
If you buy just 2 bottles of wine a month, even just at two for a tenner in a shop deal, thats ã120 a year, the duty on that alone is almost ã50.00 before VAT. With a WoW costing around 60-80p those 2 dozen bottles will be costing you under ã24 plus your ã50 outlay on equipment and maybe another ã10-20 on cleaner/sanitisers, your still better of and thats just at 24 bottles.
Its a bit of guess work to be honest i do it for a few seconds in one direction then a few in the opposite for about a minute.
I've done each of them for at least 3 or 4 minutes. I thought I could tell by the bubbles. Anyways Part A of kwick clear has been added. Hopefully have clear wine in 48 hours.
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I have a drill degasser with 2 small plastic pegs but not happy with it. Only way i get that sort of bubbling is if I go too fast - create a vortex that goes all the way to the blades and then it aerates. Have ordered the one with the green nylon filament from USA. In meantime went back to shaking the DJ which looked more effective.
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