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Well it's day seven and the brown swamp water has slowed it's evil gurgle to approx once every 2 minutes. Today I think I will give it its first racking and check the SG. Then top up with apple juice and sit back and wait a week to see what happens next. As Her indoors quite likes wine with a...

Crikey mates, Even us Aussies wont drink that muck. Incidentally we have a lot of gold beers here. The gold represents the fact that it is a mid strength beer, usually around 3.8% abv. F-s-ters is even worse than Kiwi beer and thats baddddd.

Thanks Matt

I have an alcohmeter that I use when making other stuff :twisted: My question is, can use this to measuer ABV in my finished wine ? would be handy if I can.

Thanks Chippy Yep your right, day six and nearly stopped gurgling with quite q healthy amount of sediment starting to form. I will leave it another week and then rack it into a clean DJ with a cam tab in it.

Just a couple of quick notes. For those considering using coffee filters to filter your infused grog,,,,,foget it , they clog up almost immediately. I have found the best thing is to use a few layers of pre wetted kitchen paper towels to be the best method. I start by filtering through one...

Just a quick update. Day 4 and things have slowed considerably and a thick sediment is forming on the bottom of the DJ. still working away quite merrily but looks like a large bottle of dirty puddle water.

Hi Folks. Just to say I started my first WOW brew yesterday afternoon. Just can't believe how quickly the fermentation process began. I put all the ingredients in to my spare DJ and as I had used cold water to dissolve the sugar I pitched the champagne yeast straight away. About an hour later...

Thanks for your advice, I will do as you suggest tho moving the wine to a cooler place is near on impossible in the tropics. The coolest place I have is in my garage and the temp is around 22 deg at night and about 32 deg during the day. LOL the price we pay for living in paradise. :hat:

Masking tape works for me too :cheers:

If it helps, I find that when I make fruit liquers I don't use any added sugar or syrup during the macerating process. This makes it a lot easier to filter. I then taste and sweeten with simple syrup to my liking. Hope that helps. Cheers Big Al

Hello fellow wine makers. Having just visited my local home brew shop I was very lucky to score free of charge ( apparently the enzime pkt was out of date ) a vinbrite filter kit. Was very happy to take it off their hands. I have just racked my gallon of pawpaw wine and added 1x camden tablet...

Thanks gentlemen Both have well and truly stopped working now so I will rack them this coming weekend and I think maybe for safetys sake as I live in a very warm climate I will use the campden tablet Once again Cheers PS one of them is strawberry and the other is pawpaw.

Just a couple of quick questions I could use your advice on. I am about to rack off two x one gallon demijons. Is it advisable to use a crushed campden tablet in each/ and would I do this before or after racking? if before, how long should I wait before racking. Any advice will be greatly...

Many years ago, my Dad, God rest his soul, used to make among other things a sparkling passion fruit wine. To my mind this was the best wine I have ever tasted. It is my intention, when my wine making skills improve, to try and emulate this as I live where passion fruit grows like a weed. We...

Just to add my two bobs worth I make a lot of fruit infused vodka as I have a ready source of vodka. One of my favourites is strawberry. Great colour and a very fruity flavour. Worth a crack folks. Also make nectarine and kiwi fruit. tried banana but was a bliddy disaster,LOL tasted like wedding...

Thanks very much for the welcome people. Piddle Dribble, in answer to your question,,,,,,6'3" and 18 stone LOL probably qualifies. :lol:

Gidday from the tropical North of Queensland. Please let me introduce myself. I am a 60yo self employed truck driver and my good lady and I live in Cairns,Queensland Australia. We both enjoy drinking wine (probably too fond of it) and I have only recently started trying to make my own. We have...