Did a bit of reading and using brandy is a quick fix as you get the oak flavour without using chips. Also can be bottled sooner. Tasted good but leaving it to clear for a few weeks
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one of the family favourites at our house. 5 litres Welches Purple Grape, 5 litres Beet It Beetroot juice from Tesco, 4
bags sugar and all the usual additions. Just used4 ltrs of the wine which is almost finished with a bottle of Napoleon Brandy. It’s pretty good but needs a bit of...
Thinking of trying to make port using a 5l red wine kit but what is the ratio of spirit (brandy) to wine? Guessing not 50/50. Also will it need clearing?
Any medium white kit. I use Wilko medium. I use a 30 bottle kit and when it is nearly ready, take 5 litres off into a Demi John. Do not use stopper although you can clear it. When almost finished, transfer into swing top bottles and add a level spoon of sugar to each bottle and seal. Wait for it...
Successfully made sparkling wine from Cellar 7 peach and mango. Was cloudy but cleared well. Problem was when opened the fizz pulled all the sediment up and it goes very cloudy again. Still tastes good though. Next time going to leave in demijohn to clear naturally then bottle and add sugar...
Try 3 x Welches Grape, 2 x Tropicana mixed berry and 2 x Beet It Beetroot juice. Makes 15 Litres of a deep dark red wine with a hint of Beetroot. A family favourite. I also substitute 750 grms if the sugar for 750 no of honey
Made a few WOW’s that ended a bit fizzy cus I didn’t degass enough so decided to try making a sparkling Rose. Easiest recipe I found was to make as normal but don’t stabilise and then add teaspoon of sugar to the bottle once bottled. Made 6 bottles. Tried one yesterday and it didn’t work. No...
WOW! Just finished the 30 bottle Cellar 7 kit in 5 days. Added the Finings and it cleared in 2 hours. Going to leave till Saturday to bottle though. Tastes pretty good.
After a few initial cheap kits I have always stuck with Beaverdale. However local wine shop closed and Beaverdale seems hard to come by on the Internet so now I am trying the Cellar 7. Not cheap so I assume it is good? Interested in their peach and mango if this turns out well