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Will be looking this out.

Yes, it had preservative which I boiled off. My wine had fermented down to 0.994. The sweetness is, as expected, due to the artificial sugars. It actually has a nice, fruity flavour with some residual dryness. If you like sweet wines, you'd like this.

Thanks, will give this a go. May also try fortifying some of the wine with brandy and added oak chips to create a Port like wine.

Yep, SG 0.994

I have made a Ribena wine - starting gravity of 1.095, finishing gravity of 0.994 giving me a 13% wine. The wine has a nice fruity flavour with a dry undertone but is very sweet due to the artificial sweeteners in the Ribena. Has anyone any suggestions for how I might reduce/tone down this...

I've been checking on my 2021 wines (still in demijohns) in preparation for bottling and have discovered 2 specific problems that I'd like some help/advice on. Firstly, my Tea Wine and Rose Petal Wines have not cleared at all and seem to have both stuck at a high SG. The Tea Wine at 1020 and...

I've bought some grape concentrate (Garffen Red & White Grape Juice Concentrate 65 °Brix: Concentration factor 4) mainly to use in my country fruit and flower wines. Last year I bought some 1 gallon wine kits and made those up so that I also had some grape wines alongside the country wines...

I am adding 250 mls Grape Concentrate per gallon to my country wines (dried flower and berries) - do I still need to add the Citric Acid or Acid Blend or does the concentrate contain enough acidity?

Beer, don't you just love it! Those yeasties just have a mind of their own! 😀😀😀

We'll, finally dropped to SG 1010/1011 so I've bottled some and barrelled the rest - tastes okay but not as sour as I'd like so will probably go back to my original recipe using lactobacillus rather than than the acidulated malt! I guess experimentation is what makes the home-brewing experience...

Did you prime the bottles? I do want a bit of fizz but don't want the beer overly sweet.

Yep, just checked my SG today and it is now down to 1014! Will give it another few days and then bottle! Tastes okay, just not very alcoholic but maybe it's good to have a weaker beer alongside the 6.5%ers!

Thanks everyone - going to try and exercise some patience!

Good point! I didn't think to check the SG straight after adding the raspberries!

The acidulated wheat was the only experimental part of this beer - that's why such a small run. My understanding with a Gose is that you add the salt and coriander in the last 10 minutes of the boil in order to mimic the water and beer style. Neither of these or the Lactobacillus (previous...