Recent content by HoppySpadge

@slowdave I've always wanted to try this - lots of Mrs' friends drink that Prosecco stuff and I reckon what you're trying should be good enough for them. So, you're going to brew as usual, then just add sugar to the bottles like we do for beer? I don't get the "watered back to 9% bit"? Do yu...

Just my 2 cents to this thread...I did one of these last year. I was used to brewing Ale so I drank it within 3 months and didn't think much of it. However, about 9 months later I found a bottle in the depths of my shed and wow! It was excellent - no comparison to the bottles I had drunk within...

+1 for Beaverdale. I've now done about 6 of the 'expensive end' wine kits and Beaverdale has yielded the most consistent results - California Connoisseur is also good, but I have ended up with some of their's that don't quite have the fuller flavour of the Beaverdales. I did the Shiraz also, it...

Tks to both of you for your replies. I am now encouraged to try again. I'll lay down the Wobbly for another month at least. I've only now read the reviews on my shop's website for this kit and many say it's excellent. And, I recall the extremely reliable guy in the shop recommending it. So, my...

Haven't done a Ciderworks, but sounds like you're on track for one of my 'passable' ones! Please post final results :) My Wobblyknob only came with something called Yeast Boost. I guess that the best way forward is to substitute water for loads (and I mean loads...) of supermarket UHT Apple...

Went a tad short to 21 litres since cider kits tend to be weak IME, and am now drinking the second bottle 6 weeks since bottling. And….it’s ****! Really poor. It’s clear, has a nice dry sharp initial taste followed by a bit of sweetness later, BUT there’s hardly any apple flavour at all. It’s...

10 large heaped teaspoons of sugar = 90gs (I just measured my 'large heaped teaspoon'!) so it's not too much really. I would still consider the final wine to be a dry or dry/medium, it definitely did not turn out remotely sweet. On the degassing you have a point - my procedure was 10 seconds...

My review reading at least taught me that if you're going to make wine then only buy the expensive kits - some of the cheaper ones don't seem to produce a nice wine at all. However, your Range kit indeed sounds interesting. I'll try it...Tks Rgds/Hopps

Well, my first wine after about 50 or so beer kits and I am simply amazed at the quality of the final product. Several of my wino friends have had a bottle and the agreement is total - this is one of the best wines that we have had in a long time. To put that into perspective we are mostly £6-8...

Tks all. Top replies and a sigh of relief here. Tomo will be bottling day then. I'll also check the sealing ring on the FV cap - it was a 2nd hand FV so maybe it needs replacing. I checked the hydrometer in tap water - it was 1000. For my future ref tho: what happened to the krausen? Usually...

Good day everyone, I need some advice with my 20th kit brew. It's a Wilco bought Geordie Bitter which I've done b4 without problems. It's now been in the FV for 1 month and nothing much has happened. Initially there was bubbling every 20 secs or so (as opposed to the usual vigorous initial...