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Hi eaamaann, i have made loads of ribena wine, they are always slow starters and to be honest dont very often get much faster when the do start. Did you boil the ribena first before using it to drive off some of the preservatives? This usually helps to get things going a bit quicker!

Im a bit of a sloe freak to be honest, i tend to pick some before the frost and some after, if you mix them with blackberries before the frost while they are still a bit sharp it mellows to a lovely wine with a bit f bite very nice. I use the ones i pick after the frost for Gin and Vodka and...

LOl guys I had to laugh at some of the response, firstly I appreciate the members who had the decency to offer the words of support. My relationship had been on the rocks for quite some time but I initially made this post as I thought some of you may appreciate the Irony of what my partner did...

Oh My God, my wife caught me having an affair and has kicked me out and poured 28 gallons of my summer wines down the drain, i felt like my life had ended. She then smashed 33 demi johns ans gave all my other equipment away on freecycle :o Im gutted absoultely gutted feel like crying !

Well doods there are masses and masses of berries here elders balck and more sloes than you could fill your car with on private picking grounds. If anyone would care to join me after the first frost for the sloes you would be more than welcome :thumb:

A lovely friend of mine has offered me as many cookers as I can Pick, Im not sure what I can do with them though, any help would be appreciated, Cider, Apple wine have no idea if they are suitable, Im not sure what strain they are but she said they are starting to turn RED, didnt know cookers...

Sorry to state the obvious, but take good care of them, I have got some demijohns that are like nearly 30 years old, and are as good as new, i inheroted them from my crazy wine making grandad, who inadvertently passed on the bug too lol. I only use plastic for ageing, but I have only ever lost...

Id second that, I had the same problem last time my misse kicked me out for 2 weeks came back to 5 gallons of rhubard and parsnip filth :sick: Only thing that got rid of the smell was Bleach :thumb:

Dood, I had something very similar happen to me earlier this year but minus the mess lol. I was stupidly carrying four demijohns at once with 2 in each hand by means of a finger through each carry handle , 2 demijohns hit each other whilst iwas walking and they both cracked, if had not have...

Mate Id say leave it for a while, Yeats multiply through fission if there is activity in there the yeast levels will son catch up. Yeast need several things to work effectively, one of which is a nutrient level, if you have got 1 which is responding differently id say there is less yeast and a...

Hi Jock, dood did you use pectolase in the mix, it sounds like a pectin Haze you have got there my man, If you did use pectolase you may find that racking it will help, if you rack the must off the lees at the bottom of the demi John, it changes the density of the must and allows more of the...

Yeast are one of the hardiest organisms known to mankind, they have been known to survive volcanic larva, temperatures of less than -100 centigrade. Frozen animals and humans that have been dug out of the ice from millions of years ago have been found with natural yeast on their skin that...

Dont ya just hate that Ive done it a few times myself, every time it happens i get mad with myself and ask myself its only a week how can you forget about a fv full of wine and not dj it in a week DOH!

Thats a good tip I did see a thread earlier regarding asds selling the 15 litre ones cheap I think i better go shopping, Thansk for the Vice Sean :thumb:

when i first joined this forum I thought to myslef who the bloody hell is wurzel, and then i saw the thread and since then i have logged 44 gallons in my brew log. I got hooked on the stuff probably because I managed to pick up 50 cartons of mango juice for nothing :o

I bought some of this stuff way back, i ended up bottling it and its been there ever since, best part of a year now i think. I wish I hadnt bothered it tastes rank

Okey dokey I think ill bottle it and cork it and label up saying dont drink until next summer lol, thats the only problem with drinking so much WOW it makes you think all wines are drinkable in 3 weeks lol

I piut 5 gallons on the other day and it has fizzdedits nuts off ever since, still in the FV at the moment. If its fizzing dood it fermenting the co2 production is part of the fermentation process, does smell tho doesnt it lol I put loads of lemons in mine so that makes it smell a lot better

Made 3 gallons of strawberry recently and I have racked it, stabilised and de gassed it. It is clearing nicely and has a lovely colour but OH MY GOD its sharp, never experienced this before but it tastes a bit like strawberry flavoured nail varnish. It brewed to about 14 % but WOW sharp aint the...

I always degass mine, but i use Moleys method and after I have racked and stabilised it i put my hand over the top of the dj and shake the **** out of it and let the gas out bit by bit, workls a treat. I probably do about 5 gallons a month now have regular party nights at my house on it, all my...