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I brewed this July last year. The only intervention it's had is a campden tablet in May of this year. I'm puzzled.

It was a liquid fining, you put part A in and then part B an hour later. The smell is chemical and tastes in the wine.

I received cleared a demijohn using Young's. My wine stinks now. Any advice on how to get rid of that chemical smell? It did however do an almost instant clearing......

Heyup. Sorry couldnt get onto site for a bit, have no idea why. I just had a look to see wine jam recipes sounds interesting but it would have to be homemade wouldnt it as manufacturers dont always use sugar?

Ive got a wine recipe for kitchen wine from Peggy Hutchinson's book (a hundred years ago). Theres a recipe for Tomato wine which somehow just doesnt appeal. Ive just fermented a potatoe wine. We will see. She made wine from almost everything. Its an interesting read because some of the things...

Just leave it a little wine. I made mine from a base of crab apples and then added apple juice. It was moouth shrivellingly awful. Being so tight i just shoved it in corner for a month or so longer and had a taste yesterday. It had improved considerably.

Aqualung : Thats what I thought. And Campden tablets. Some recipes seem to be bunging them in willy nilly. What are your views on this?

Are the novotwist tops one use only?

Hi all I have this year started brewing again wine and beer after a thirty year break. Previously we did not make wine from carton juices, nor did we use any fancy gadgets. Everything was matured for a year or more. So ive made a lot of wine this year. I have obviously forgotton a lot of...

Ive just made my first batches of cider using crab apples. I dont know what type of apples they are but as im new to the house i picked the first batch when i thought they were ready and made cider from a bucketful. At tasting it was vile. The remaining apples became the most glorious red so...

Well that matured and was not amazing but it was passable. At my last visit to the shop i saw his malt packets so wont be making that mistake again.

I was in the homebrew shop and i overheard the owner talking to a bloke about his first time brew of cider. I took his advice and brewed my second lot in the fermenter and i racked it into another fermenter then into the demijohn. The shop owner said to his customer that you dont need to be as...

Welcome. Jam wine????? Is it on the go and have you made it before.

I was premature with the bottling as lots of yeast debris in bottom of bottles. As the first lot was so disgusting I mixed it with the second batch and added some apple juice. This took me up to three demijohns. Wierdly one demi john is still bubbling away whilst the other two werent. I...

Bottled it, tastes like drain cleaner.... Nice fizz though. The second batch i added some ordinary apple juice and then blended both lots. Still bubbling so am waiting a little longer before I rebottle.

Im aiming for a wine. The one I tasted reminded me of a sherry. I dont worry about ABVs. When it looks ok, i rack it. When its cleared and tastes OK i drink it.

It was indeed a slow starter and then shot a load of mush out the top of the demijohns. Its now settling down in that the gunk is no longer being produced but bubbling away like a good un. Im assuming i dont rack it until the bubbling has slowed considerably?

Ive made a couple of kit beers but my old man bought me back a stout for a change. I opened the tin did the dilute and then realised he hadnt bought me the fermentables. Well it was too late to do anything as we live on an island so i just threw in sugar as I had for the beers and its foul...

Ah that looks to be the problem. I should have waited 24 hours. As it happens I have bubbling. Nothing compared to the pears but action. Going to pick the rest of the tree tomorrow.

Hi all I've spent the last week with my apples in fermenter juicing. Yesterday I removed the apples kept the juice and then pulled the fruit through straining bags. Recipe said when done add campden tablet. I put my juices into demijohns added sugar solution and yeast expecting great...