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I made a summer fruit wine last year, raspberries, strawberries, blackcurrants and wimberries, its very nice and a fruity wine, and has not long been bottled. I used the Wimberry wine recipe I was sent last year.

I second that, take some readings and see what is happening.

Don't freeze the apples, and dont use bad ones. We got told (on our cider making day) that a good mix of sweet and sour apples make a decent cider. We collected apples from Oct to Dec and kept them in sacks in my mates shed. Hired a press and scratter from the local allotment group, and it...

I used the fruit from my perry pear and elderberry wine to make cider with last year, and its was bloody lovely. Threw it into the press when we were doing the apples, added a small almount of apple juice to top it up to a gallon, and drank it all at midsummer

You need to rack off, not sure if that is what you mean when you say filter, racking off just means syphon the wine off the dead yeast at the bottom of the DJ into a clean sterilised DJ, without disturbing the sediment. Do that when the sediment is quite deep usually a month, then again every...

14g apple cider, 1g pear and elderberry cider, 1g pear and elderberry wine made in the new year, 2g plum wine just fermenting, and I am off out blackberrying and elderberrying again this weekend so hopefully 2g to 4g of blackberry and elderberry wine, but I am going to taste last years first...

I have a 5 gallon container of cider we made at new year that is ready for bottling. The DJ's were bottled in July, and came in at about 5%, I am really chuffed with it as we added nothing, just let the apple juice ferment with wild yeast, I also made perry pear and elderberry cider, but used...

I put my fruit wine next to the boiler in the kitchen, which is quite warm. My books say if it does not start fermenting in the first few days, then add more yeast as you may have killed the first lot, but I would try some yeast nutrient first just to see. My plum wine is still in the bucket...

Well I have some lovely slow fermented cloudy cider that is very nice. Brewed Dec, bottled April, drank May. :cheers: :cheers:

Cheers, am I ok to bottle it now with bit of sugar? I don't have to do anything else like stop the ferment as I would with wine?

Did you steep the fruit in boiling water? I have done 2 batches, using 2 different recipes, and they are both cloudy :( I have been told many different ways to stop it getting cloudy, but my dad is adamant the only time he had not peeled the plums he has cloudy wine. I am just confused now.

Oh, I have no idea, I just assumed when the water is pushed right up one side of the airlock, that its still producing gas so still fermenting............ I have only done wines, and my plum have started to ferment again as its warmed up over the last week or so.

What size and lb age? We have a rolan kit, bought for one of my kids years ago, it's stuck in a cupboard somewhere, the other was donated to the archery club. But to be honest, you're better off going to your local archery supplier and seeing what second hand bows they have in for the pull and...

After watching my pet lemonade bottle go from a 2 lt to a 4 lt size with the gas build up over 2 days, I am sticking with the plastic bottles everyime.

Hi, started my turbo cider in Nov, and its been sat maturing in the dj since Dec, it now smells like cider instead of something rank :O It is still cloudy, but then I used cloudy apple juice, do I take a reading now and then bottle it? It is still fermenting, as the water in the air lock is...

Well, still hazy, not as bad as it was, and being stood outside in the cold for the last 2 months seems to have helped them form a new layer of lees. I am going to add some of my banana wine to it as that tastes like meths, and then bottle it. Super cloudy vegan wine, only £20 a bottle :lol...

Right, shed it is then. :thumb: Never gone below -9 here apart from the other year, so it should be good.

Tried my first bottle yesterday as it is now crystal clear, was very very nice, no idea of the alcohol level, but did trip 3 times going to bed after 1/2 litre of the stuff. Put the rest away for xmas and next spring.

Was going to put my bitter in the shed this weekend, perhaps I better not then. Its been down to -3 and perfect white frost in my back garden for a few days now. First snow should be here tonight :)

Can anyone give me any advice please? How do you find the level of tannin in fruit? I have wimberries and blueberries, that I want to mix with Elderberries to make wine. I know that if I add blackberries to elderberries then I need to add strong black tea........ is it the same with...