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Opening this thread back up again, Aldi have stopped again with the RGJ and now looking for a new source for my pineapple Rose stock wine, lovely brew and not had a bad result

My favourite wine recipe is 1l red grape juice, 1l pineapple juice and 900gm sugar Makes a lovely crisp rose style wine with quite a kick I have found that aldi have stopped selling the RGJ, any ideas where I can get it?

Do you have a gallon version and does it need any extra sugar or will it come out a little weak?

Always use screw top wine bottles but throw a cork in them and never had a bad experience!!

I have had the same with two batches of rhubarb, left the fruit in the bucket for longer than the usual 3 days and hadn't added a tablet, took the lumps off, added a tablet to each batch and carried on and all seems to be bubbling away fine now (left the mix 24 hours before adding the yeast)

Top tip (learnt from own mistake), never add the sugar to a near boiling ribena mixture, you will understand the meaning of the word nucleation, it isnt good and involves a lot of clearing up!!!

The recipe I have used for a number of batches 1.8kg Rhubarb - Chopped into small pieces and frozen Taken from freezer into tub, 1.3Kg of sugar poured over and Rhubarb left to defrost Stir twice a day and leave for at least 3 days, longer doesn't seem to matter Pour off juice into demi john...

NEVER put gooseberries in vodka to make a fruit vodka, it's horrid!!

Well 1 gallon started tonight and let's see how it turns out, only added bentonite, yeast nutrient and yeast Thanks for the advice on this, will keep you posted

Excellent and thanks for the quick reply, well that's to be done tonight then!!

Thanks for the reply, so just use the tins to fill up a demijohn and strain to remove crystals? No need for water, sugar or tannin? Just nutrient and yeast and I will get a wine from it?

Went into our local Tesco's last week and they had tins of this going cheap (10p a tin) because it was short dated. Going on the basis that its grape juice in a tin, I bought their entire stock (24 tins) because I cant see it going bad in the next 6 months. This has made me think if I could...

Firstly I apologise, I saw this about 5 minutes after you posted but it was early and I was a little bleary eyed, meant to post when I got up but got distracted with the lovely weather!! I have my recipe here which I started on 30/12/12 and although it says it is ready after 2 years, I took it...

I have always thought the same about VWP, swear by it as a cleaner but always worried what would be the effect if I didnt rinse enough, I tend to wash out each bottle 3 times after sterilising, is this too much?

I bought one of these kits out of date and ended up just using the sugar for a rhubarb wine and keeping the buckets and tubing for future, rest went in the bin, mixed fruit shots did not sound good!!

Yes i boiled it for a good time to get rid of the preservatives and I tend to calculate how much sugar in at start and then leave till it stops, We like our wine dry so I dont tend to bother checking it, but if I need to know how much alcohol then I will check FG. That being said a quick taste...

I started a ribena concentrate wine just under 2 months ago and am still getting airlock activity about every 3 seconds!! Patience is really the key with this wine, did it last year and left it about 7 months before drinking and it was lovely!!

I also leave mine in, used to take them out each time but then realised it wasn't necessary. After use I give them a good run through on the head of the tap with hot water and then leave to dry, before use the same and sterilise if they have had anything nasty on them, no issues so far!!

LOL just added 250gm of sugar to the demi john and got a rather unexpected volcano effect out of the top of the demi john! Couldnt add it with water because I was just at the neck. Lost some liquid but I am sure it will balance itself out. Thanks for the info on the extra sugar and please...

Doesn't seem like a lot of bananas to be, also be prepared for a terrible smell of boiling bananas!!