Elderflower champagne

[Andrew2234]

hi every one looking or advice going to try elderflower champagne now I read the safest way is to ferment all the way then add sugar to prim now my wife likes a sweeter wine so I was wondering how you would back sweeten the bottles

 

[Oneflewover]

Artificial sweetener. Use anything fermentable and it'll just ferment out to dry and potentially result in over primed bottles if you add it at bottling.

 

[Hagrid]

Would cold crashing it work?

 

[An Ankoù]

Would cold crashing it work?

Not really. As soon as it warmed up it would start fermenting again.

 

[Oneflewover]

I have just made a batch (under duress I hasten to add) and used some of that 'half and half' sugar (it's got some sweetener in it) to make it. Primed with regular table sugar. I had a taster at bottling and I have concede it wasn't half bad.