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Hi. I'm fermenting a bucket of mixed berry wine, with ribena, blackberries and elderberries. The fruit is bagged up in muslin, and was squashed before adding to the bucket. The ribena was boiled a while with water in a pan to drive off stabilising chemicals. A kind of berry coloured scum has...

Recipe 3 gallons mixed fruit 3 lbs elderberries 3 lbs blackberries 12 fl oz ribena (heated to drive off stabilisers) sugar, water, nutrient, pectolase etc Original gravity @ 17C 1.103 The level was at 3 gallons before I added a muslin bag of fruit pulp - skins etc and now it is at 15 litres...

Hello. I've got a bucket of elderberry wine that's been brewing for a few days now and a few more pounds of berries in the freezer which I'd like to use for another batch after the present one has been racked for secondary fermentation. Question is - once this has been done, how do I use the...

I've a mixed berry recipe brewing for about a week now. Recipe for 2 gallons mixed berry wine as follows: 2lbs each: elderberries, blackberries, damsons (skins rolled on pointy side of cheese grater) 8oz ribena ( diluted a little and then heated for a while to drive off stabilisers) 0.5lbs...

I have a few Madeleine Angevin vines in the garden and several more I could plant this year if I choose. The aim being to make some white wine in the years ahead - God and time allowing. Before I go ahead I have a feeling that the end product might be better if it were a combination of the...

I wondered if anyone had tried different ways of extracting juice from berries and found which produced the smoothest wine. I start with frozen berries, then pour boiling water onto them in a pan. I use a potato masher and strain the liquid, then repeat three of four times. I then put the pulp...

I've made a few fruit wines and mead but have a cabernet from a wine kit on the go at the moment. I'd like to leave out the step of adding finings and leave it longer to improve the flavour. Can this realistically be done and how long (at 60-63 F) would it be before it's good to bottle/drink?

Hi. Does anyone know how degassing a wine affects its specific gravity? For example, if it was, say 0.995 before, what is it likely to be after? Does it go up or down? Also, does ageing wine for a year or so have an affect on specific gravity?

Using a recipe from CJJ Berry: 3lbs rosehips crushed 6oz dried figs (about - I chopped em up a bit too) 3lbs sugar (using step feeding) 1 tsp citric acid 1tsp pectolase 1tsp nutrient water to 1 gallon sachet granulated yeast After getting it going in a fermentation bucket with the hips and...

I've the following recipe for 1 gallon runner bean and elderberry wine (CJJ Berry): water from 1 lb boiled runner beans 2.5 lbs elderberries 0.5 lb raisins (which I'm led to believe is equivalent to 4X that weight in undried fruit = 2 lbs grapes) sugar and water to 1 gallon yeast and nutrient...

Hi people. We've been brewing wines for just over a year now - done elderberry, rhubarb, plain mead, raspberry melomel, methyglin, oak leaf etc. We have a fruit and veg patch bottom of the garden where we grow food organically and if we get to it before the snails and bugs we actually get to...