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Started my first rhubarb wine for this year. Been picking and freezing from early summer and finally got round to making it. 11l demijohn. about 3kg+ rhubarb cut up and frozen (did not weigh it but had to use two 5l buckets for getting the juice out with sugar) 3kg sugar 4 brown bananas 2l Apple...

I have been making peach in grape juice wine , leaving the mushed up fruit in straining bag for 5 days, this morning when I was getting the straining bag out I found a Fly floating in the fermenter :( - the lid was not clipped all the way to allow gasses to escape but I thought no creature could...

Been donated some equipment. Two demijohns with 25 l fermenter, old heater, two part air locks and big bag of out of date chemicals. Does anybody know if any of these are useable or shall I just chuck them? None of them were opened. kwik clear - bbe 16 tronozymol -bbe 16 wine tannin - bbe 16...

I was wondering whether somebody has a good sloe wine recipe. Found wonderful few bushes on my walk, sloes the size of grapes and recon will be ready in few weeks ( even though they Normally need till end of October - checked them out and they squishy and I am able to eat one....) thought 2kg...

I have never made wine from blackberries but this year there are so many that I could not resist and put three different experiments on- First one - 1.5kg blackberries, handful of blackcurrants with two litres of Waitrose merlot grape juice and kg of sugar plus 3bag brew for tannin. Left to...

This is a really silly question. Making blackberry wine and will strain the fruit in couple of days. I was thinking keeping the pulp and chucking some apple juice on top of it to make a turbo berry cider. Is this a good idea or the blackberry pulp is spent and will only impart horrible flavour...

Having visited Austria quite few times - our old family friend Helmut makes his own cider/ they call it most. Just crushes apples and leaves it in cellar - obviously conditions are perfect in the alps and his cellar - what comes out is absolutely wonderful stuff. Dry sharp cider that’s so lovely...

Have been churning pasta out with great speed during lockdown. New thing I have done is Cavatelli! They are absolutely wonderful things. 1tub ricotta cheese (250g) 100g 00 flour 200g semola/semolina flour 1egg 1tsp salt Give it a good knead, rest for 20minutes. Then cut off chunks of dough and...

What a revelation finding this forum. Apart from country wines, wow wines and kits I had a go at fruity turbo cider. 1l red fruits juice from Asda polish isle (100%juice no preservatives) 4l apple juice Yeast + 300ml Robinson’s strawberry and watermelon cordial and 6tsp sugar after fermenting...

First time making banana wine! What a revelation. This lockdown has definitely got some hobbies developed :) Tasted first one - very slight banana undertone but tastes more like full bodied white wine. Boiling bananas in sugar with raisins for 45 minutes and then leaving them to cool, pitching...

My first banana wine is ready to be put away for a long while... and my second will follow in months time. Had a wee taste from No1 and it’s lovely. Hot from alcohol still but fruit undertones and will be lovely after some conditioning. Number two will be racked off after a month into a glass...

Hello. I have done two batches of rhubarb wine side by side. Cut up stalks left in sugar for few days - one I squeezed all the juice and made up to 1090 in gallon demijohn (added a bit of apple juice to top up) - I could not believe how fast it fermented. Took two weeks and by the end of third...

Oh dear. Just bottled wilko Sauvignon blanc wine kit and the half bottle left in the fridge smells a bit like vinegar! Brewed it exactly the same as my wows and sterilised everything but this one might be a gonner :( ... All the rest turned out well - not sure where I have gone wrong :(

Hello. As a child my parents used to own a vineyard and I have experienced my dad making wine and it all seemed like alchemy. The lockdown has brought up interest in my own brewing/making and it has certainly been a well of all knowledge :). Great to read all the stories and advice :) I have...