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Here's one for all you hardened home brewers If I make a "alcohol wash" with just water and sugar upto about 12% ABV, could I then add a spirit flavouring that I see in the homebrew shop? The ones that you use with a still. Would it just taste like a weaker strength spirit?

Cheers chippy Based on old blokes 20g/L =1% , it should be about 13.88% :cheers: Thanks old bloke for the rough formula :D

By the way the recipe uses RGJ not WGJ....

I gave it a good ol' shake up and made sure the sugar was dissolved in water before putting it in the DJ. Just wondering though, how to take an accurate OG reading as I don't add water to 4.5 Ltrs until day 3 of ferment, so the reading I take is about 2L juice with 1.5 Litres water + extras...

I don't have the cartons, but will find out tomorrow :D

My first time at making wine without a kit, so i have Started a recipe as follows - 1 ltr WGJ (sainsburys) 1ltr Cranberry and raspberry juice (sainsburys) 1 Kilo sugar Juice of 1 lemon Mug black tea (2 bag strong) 1 tsp pectin 5g yeast 1 tsp nutrient 1 tsp glycerine OG =1.122 Still...

Hi all, just to introduce myself I am from Walsall in the Black Country, started brewing wine about a month ago, learnt a lot already just by reading posts on here.