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Hi we grow most of our own fruit and as it is usually all ready within a short few weeks we tend to pick it and freeze it, so I guess you can say we always use frozen fruit, our wine is superb been brewing for a few years now and haven't so far 🙇had a bad batch.

Welcome from me as well its about time you joined. Yep don't forget the cyyyyyyder :clap:

We put in two litres of strawberry ribena to 25 litres of fresh pressed apple juice (we have our own apple trees and home made press) and we had a definite strawberry flavour which made a nice change. For that batch we used YLP 775 yeast. Some of our ciders have come out at 8% and a little...

We bought some farmfoods frozen rhubarb last year to top up our own rhubarb. We always freeze our fruit before using now, we have just this week done our bramble (blackberry) wine it is currently bubbling in fermenting bucket. It saves the mad rush in the autumn and produces superb wine.

We boiled up some strawberry ribena for 30mins then poured it in the fresh pressed apple juice then stirred it up and put in the yeast. It was really nice. We currently have a ginger batch just bottled but not tried yet and also one with oak chippings soon to be racked.

Hi Stan sorry didn't see you there !!!!! Moley which yeast did you use ??

Just found this post and I am wondering if you have opened any of the bottles yet Moley ???

Will watch with interest. Mmmmmmm must dash to Morrisons and buy some ribena that is one of many wines we haven't tried. Our strawberry ribena and cider was fantastic.

Aw thanks for replying it can't really do any harm can it. Cheers

We have only just got round to making our rhubarb wine frozen rhubarb in the bucket I have the recipe we always use but Mr Witch is convinced we add pectolase but it is not in the recipe I have stored online our rhubarb wine is always fantastic a lovely clear crisp wine with a lovely hint of...

Mr Witch was bought a Buon Vino bottle filler for Christmas, he was really pleased with it it really speeded up the wine bottling process HOWEVER cleaning and drying it is a nightmare we tried drying it on the radiator, over the fire and in the airing cupboard. Finally decided to open it up...

why have you glass everywhere did your bottles explode ?? We use old plastic lemonade bottles the Grandchildren love it the more bottles we need the more lemonade we buy them :D

OK David no results yet then will be interested when you eventually bottle and taste. I have gone for the V56 for the Damson so will let you know how ours goes and if we can tell the difference don't hold your breath though haven't got them out of the freezer yet. Although the batch we did last...

Thanks grays and stonecold I see I will be experimenting with the cooking as well as Mr Witch and the brewing will let you know how we get on.

Hi we have enough frozen damsons to make 5 gallons of wine has anyone tried Gervin No 2 Burgundy yeast or Vintners Reserve R56 just wondered what difference the yeasts make to the finished product, we are feeling we can start experimenting more now. Cheers

Hi has any one used cocoa powder to enhance the flavour of Edme Irish stout. Cheers

We tried the cranberry juice drink with red grape juice and it was really nice and very potent but we did notice it didn't clear as well as the pure fruit juice. We also tried red grape and prune which again was very drinkable. Our favourite (after the hallowed Wurzels Original) is Red or was...

Maybe too cold, we have sometimes stood ours near the fire to help fermentation. What is the temperature in your room you brew/ferment in.

You beat me to it fermantall I was just going to suggest coloured tape. However little sticky labels from Wilkos don't take a lot of cleaning off.

Oi it was my forum birthday yesterday and what a great year Mr Witch and I have had on here hic hic hic Thanks everyone for all the help and encouragement you are all great, always there to help when we get stuck, never let us down cheers