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  1. DanielB

    Wine whine

    So...after a fairly long wine making journey and having made what are frankly fairly not very nice fruit wines..it turns out I "may not have turned the page" on the instructions...and found out all about pH and acidity in my fruit wines! This I am guessing is why they often taste rather...
  2. DanielB

    Another stuck fermentation

    Hi, long time since being here - i hope you are all as well as can be expected... I have a stuck fermentation for a "carrot whiskey"... I think I have likely overdone the sugar to start off with. I understand there are a few ways to resolve this, but my question is specifically related to...
  3. DanielB

    Red grape wow Lacking body

    Hi everyone, I made a fairly simple red grape wow, but now it's all done and ready for bottling it tastes a little...thin(?)...I don't know if that's the word I mean. Is it possible to add body at this point? It's one demijohn in quantity.
  4. DanielB

    Green walnut wine?

    I can't find any recipes....are there any? I have a few kgs of green walnuts...:rolleyes::rolleyes:
  5. DanielB

    Priming advice

    Hi all....I have made some TC....just a basic recipe and it has fermented out from 1040 to 1000.... I now want to ptime for a bit of fizz....BUT I was going to prime with homemade elderflower cordial.... Any suggestions on a priming quantity of cordial per litre? I know it is a bit of an...
  6. DanielB

    Body needed?

    Hello all....been a while since my last posts...I hope people are faring well under our strange society situation. Still...it's given me a good chance to get through a fair few yr old fruit wines!! Some of them seem...I don't know, I'm no connasieur but I would say taste 'thin' in the mouth...
  7. DanielB

    Bitterness in finished wines

    Hi all, I have a few fresh fruit wines that are being bottled after 6 months bulk aging. Some of them, like the 'reds'; cherry, blueberry, blackberry are all fine... But the 'whites'; apple, strawberry, raspberry all have a bitter aftertaste. I think it is 'more' than just alcohol (they are...
  8. DanielB

    Carrot whiskey

    Hi all, I have some carrot whiskey on the go...I went to rack it and it still tastes a little sweet. The sg was about 1020 (from 1150) so coming out about 17%. Looks like I reached the yeasts tolerance as it had seemingly finished fermenting. I was considering repitching it to get the last of...
  9. DanielB

    Bitterness

    What might cause bitterness in a fruit wine? I am slowly - with much help and advice from this wonderful forum- getting to grips with various brews and concoctions. However it is not unusal for my brews to have a slight but noticeable bitterness on the tongue...kind of almost aftertaste. What...
  10. DanielB

    Wine for Christmas?

    ...I have a few fruit wines bulk aging for Christmas, but any suggestions for something I can get on now, for drinking in 87 days time :laugh8:
  11. DanielB

    Stop - thief?

    Hi all, I am confused a little by wine thiefs, hydrometers and refractometers... I am trying a few brews where one needs to 'check on fermentation' is it correct that a refractometer - whilst maybe the most convenient tester - is absolutely no good once fermentation has started? To see how a...
  12. DanielB

    Stalled fermentation?

    Morning all, I made 5L of a mixed wine; using rose petal cordial I made and also elderflower cordial I made. Didn't really have a recipe but added some tanin...and some pretty standard wine yeast. SG 1090 All bubbling nicely. Stopped about two weeks ago. So left it (as I generally do) and...
  13. DanielB

    Elderflower CORDIAL wine...

    Hi all...so, I have litres and litres of homemade elderflower cordial. I am looking for a wine recipe? Obviously the cordial...but do I need to: Add tannin Add white grape juice Anything else? (Yeast, obviously :laugh8:) I'm looking to make 5l batches to start with... Thank you!
  14. DanielB

    Sweetening TC

    I am about to bulk prime and bottle some TC. I am looking to also sweeten at priming stage with "TRUVIA"; which is sweetener from the Stevia leaf. Sugars = 0% Polyols = 99% Is this sweetener non-fermentable does anyone know?
  15. DanielB

    TC neglected

    I have made some straight TC, and it has fermented to dry. However I had to go away for a few days. It is now 16 days since I started the brew. I now need to decant into a bucket to bulk prime and bottle. Do you think the yeast will still be active to prime? Or should I add a little yeast at...
  16. DanielB

    TC mould?

    Just bottling some straight TC. It's actually finished a while ago, a couple months...but just coming to bottle now. It has these large while 'spots' on the surface. Are they mould? Smells ok. Like cider? Tastes fine.. Any thoughts?
  17. DanielB

    Bottling TC

    Evenin' all, So I am to bottle a few gallons of TC. I have steralised my glass bottles. Do I/should I then also sterilise all my caps as well? And, if using plastic bottles...sterili st those twist caps as well? Thanks!!
  18. DanielB

    TC Catch-up

    Hi all, so with your help and advice I have been merrily working my way through some TCs. I did three types - Straight TC Straight TC with sweetener Straight TC made with raspberry Lowizc All coming out at about 5.3% and all perfectly palatable - but best served chilled. I do feel that they...
  19. DanielB

    Watermelon wine recipe.

    ... watermelon wine...what's the recipe for that!!??
  20. DanielB

    Bulk Aging

    Hi - if I bulk age my country wines in 5 litre glass djs, should I add an airlock, or just a bung...or a bored bung with cotton wool? Out of interest, these wines were fermented to dry. Have already been stabilised. and racked a couple of times, So I would anticipate there is no active...
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