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no worries - and thanks for all your advice. It is much appreciated. For about 24 hours now I've had the wines next to a constant heat source (radiator) and with the occasional shake there seems to be some slow activity. I'll see how this develops but in the meantime get a very dry wine on, as...

no...my mistake. what I meant was the following: b-berry = 1.035 vine prunings = 1.030 plum = 1.060 sorry, misread the hydrometer and added .100 to each score... Elderberry was correct though.

have just checked the wild plum recipe and that calls for a whopping 1.75kg of sugar, which I guess goes some way to explaining why it's higher than the others!

thanks for the swift replies! Ok...I do have a hydrometer but have not yet really used before now. However, I've just done some quick measurements: Blackberry - about 1.135 (this was started on 10th Aug) Elderberry - seems to be sub 1.000 (997. Had a taste and it's not as bad as I'd first...

Hi all, Winemaking is a new hobby for me this year and over the summer I started four 'county' wines off (plum, elderberry, blackberry and vine prunings), following recipes in Berry's 1st steps in winemaking. All four are now 2 or 3 months on and have virtually come to a standstill in terms of...