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  1. Mikes1992

    Would it be legal to trade wine for ingredients?

    So when me and my partner moved houses and carted 70 bottles of hand labelled wine into the new house we could've got in trouble? 🤣 God knows what the neighbours thought 😅.
  2. Mikes1992

    Would it be legal to trade wine for ingredients?

    It's just something I'm curious about... Would it be illegal if you posted an ingredients list on your social media and brewed wine for other people?
  3. Mikes1992

    What happens if you ferment custard?

    I found a pot of open custard hidden at the back of the shelf while I was at work, it smelt very much like Bailey's... Looking at the sugar concentration it would've been around 6-7% alcohol. This makes me wonder if you could ferment custard? I can imagine it would just separate out though? 😅
  4. Mikes1992

    I'm guessing my 71b yeast is dead

    I threw the Wilko's yeast in this morning and it's started. Hopefully it doesn't have any issues.
  5. Mikes1992

    I'm guessing my 71b yeast is dead

    I'm also guessing it could be a pretty explosive fermentation as I've probably added 10x the yeast I usually would and I've heard that dead yeast can be used as a nutrient.
  6. Mikes1992

    I'm guessing my 71b yeast is dead

    I'm gutted as the fresh lalvin 71b yeast I just ordered probably won't be here soon enough as I'm suspecting if I wait any longer there's a chance the unfermented sugary grape juice may start to spoil.
  7. Mikes1992

    I'm guessing my 71b yeast is dead

    It's been 5 days and there's still no activity. I'm guessing since oxygen got into the 35g packet I have (dated may 2024) the yeast may have oxidized or something... I put the dried yeast straight into the wine. A couple days later I added some to 38°c water and let it hydrate and then added it...
  8. Mikes1992

    Black forest wine

    Not sure if anybody is interested but this wine was absolutely amazing, it's the best I've ever made. I took the last bottle to my sister's on boxing Day and everybody loved it. If anybody has ever tried it it tasted a bit like kumulas special reserve pinotage. I think the concord grape juice...
  9. Mikes1992

    Stuck mead

    I've had a mead fermenting for about 3 months and it has stalled around 1.03 and ideally I'd like to get it to 1.015 as I find anything above is much too sweet... Currently it is dropping about 0.002 points per month which means it's going to take about 7 months to complete at the current rate...
  10. Mikes1992

    Harvest Gold Mead

    Urgh.... I can't believe how slow mead is xD.... Nearly a month later (30/4 - 26/5) and it's at 1.046 or about 9.45%... I might need to add more nutrient as it hasn't looked that active for the last week although this is the first reading I've taken since I took the OG. I expected the reading...
  11. Mikes1992

    Spilt yeast

    The only thing less yeast does is cause it to take a little longer to start fermenting. In the past I've taken samples of wine with yeast I've run out of, poured the sample into what I want to ferment and a day or two later it was fermenting. You only need enough yeast to outpace any possible...
  12. Mikes1992

    Harvest Gold Mead

    I've just started a 1 gallon batch of this recipe xD
  13. Mikes1992

    Harvest Gold Mead

    It's finally done at 13.3%, I literally just poured it through a sieve into a bottle xD, it already tastes better then the bottle I tried from Morrisons, I don't really care that I has a haze to it as I'm more interested testing if this is something I'd enjoy brewing and drinking in the future...
  14. Mikes1992

    Black forest wine

    The black forest fruit wine is finally bottled. I got 5 bottles and 3/4. The smell is amazing and it tastes almost as good. There's a mild acidity but it's nothing too overpowering. The wine finished at 1.004 and is about 14.7% but it doesn't taste that strong alcohol wise. I can't wait to see...
  15. Mikes1992

    Harvest Gold Mead

    The yeast nutrient seems to have worked. It's now at 1.076 :D.
  16. Mikes1992

    Black forest wine

    I backsweetened it to 1.014 and it has dropped to 1.01 in 5 days. It still looks active though and is producing 1 bubble every 20 seconds. I calculate it to currently be at 13.9% and the yeast claims upto 14% tolerance. The sugar I said I added on the previous comment was actually sugar/water...
  17. Mikes1992

    Harvest Gold Mead

    Is Wilko's yeast nutrient acceptable? I added 1/4 teaspoon. I haven't tested it since but it's certainly producing more gas now. Also, I did actually add the skins... The skin on top is actually from a bit of banana I couldn't resist eating xD
  18. Mikes1992

    Harvest Gold Mead

    Yeah the raisins are chopped into tiny pieces 😅. I am wondering if it just needs a nutrient boost as I just put a banana wine on and within 2 hours it was fermenting and already dropped from 1.1 down to 1.08 in 24h. The recipe did say bananas are super food for yeast and I've used the same...
  19. Mikes1992

    Harvest Gold Mead

    I've got a feeling my single bottle test is going to take a while... Unless it's sugars leaching out of the raisins it's been bubbling away for the last 3 days and it's still at 1.11 from 1.112 The lemon zest seems to be melding well though, hopefully it doesn't over-infuse since I don't really...
  20. Mikes1992

    Black forest wine

    To be honest I generally aim for 1.006 to 1.008 for sweetness in a wine... I find anything over 1.01 tends to be overpowered by the sweetness. It's still not finished yet so hopefully it's ok. It's not as acidic as my first from scratch brew which I stupidly decided to add citric acid into. 😱
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