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Hi all can I ask a question please. A month ago I stopped fermentation on my plum wine and added the necessary campden tablets. It was all gone well since and there is a little sediment at the bottom of my djs of the plum wine. Should I transfer the wine into a new sterilised dj so it is...

Are finings necessary? Is it better to wait for it to naturally clear? The 3 djs have been sat for nearly 4 weeks now and have a thom layer of sediment in the bottom. Should I re rack the wine into clean djs without the sediment? If I should do I put another campden tablet into the dj

Hi all mine has been sat in 3 djs for approximately three weeks now after I stopped fermentation and re racked them. They look excellent currently. I have them in the dark and there is a tiny bit of yeast settled at the bottom. My question is when do I re rack again I read somewhere one month...

Hi all I didnt take a reading of a vimto no added sugar concentrate hooch but wondered is it still possible to work out alcohol without a starting reading? It was 1 gallon with 490g sugar and ended at 0.996?

Oh great that's easy then thanks penguinarmy. Yourself and chippy tea have been really helpful on my journey so far. Ive got 3 djs of plum wine that I re racked yesterday as it got to 0.998. I now have 4 robinsons alcohooch going and yesterday did a no added sugar vimto but didn't fill the dj up...

Can anyone advise what I should put the siphoned drink into after ive added the sugar and boiling water? What do people bottle these things into?

Thats excellent thank you. I dont suppose theres is a good thread on knowing if ive messed one up? Im making a robinsons no added sugar lemon and 2 dayd in there appears to be no activity at all in yhe dj. It had crud sediment on top if the liquid ive gently swirled it so it sinks. The other 2...

Thanks chippy tea for all the help so far. Were about 7 days into fermentation now on the plum wine and the hydrometer has dropped from 1.12 to 1.015. After it goes to approximately 0.998 and I put it into the 4 djs how long do I leave them for then?

Hi all can I have some advice please. I yesterday did 3 one gallon demijohns of robinsons no added sugar alcopop. This is our 1st attempt at it. We follwed the cheap and easy tropical hooch post on this forum. One of the djs is bubbling normally one is over bubbling and the airlock is now full...

Thank you again for your helpful answers. This afternoon my mother in law in law brought round 4 djs from a friend. So I have enough now. As I said early the plum wine was at 1.12 so I wait until its at the level ypu mentioned earlier. Then I crush 1 campden into each sterilised dj and as you...

I will do. Can I ask if it is okay practice to rack the 4 gallons with 4 campdens and 4 tsp of fermentation stopper into another bucket that has a airlock lid or should it be put into 4 demijohns?

Thats great thanks. Its at 1.12 currently so I'll check again in a couple of days. Thank you.

Hi I am making my first wine. It is a plum wine. I would like to know at what stage do I stop the fermentation with the powder and the campden tablets please? The 4 gallons has been in the barrel for 4 to 5 days and doesnt appear to be letting out a gas bubble from the air lock all though when I...

Thats brilliant thank you for posting. I'll get right on it.

Hello everyone my name is rae, this is my first post so thought I would introduce myself first. My wife and I share an allotment with her mother and I am wondering what things I can produce wine from. Every year we have about 200lbs of damsons grow in the border of our allotment. Last year we...

Hi I am aware that this thread is very old but I have followed the recipe for plum wine from the second post. I am new to brewing and have a question if anyone could answer it that would be great. Can I ask why was the yeast added to the must and left for 4 days stirring twice daily before sugar...