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My recipe didn't really indicate the maturing time but I have read elsewhere up to two years. As for the flesh I used all the solid bits behind the skin and scooped out most if the seeds and mushy bits as I could. Mine has been in a week now and it's just about ready to be strained into a DJ -...

Today I will be mostly making 1 gallon of Easy White and 1 gallon of peach wine. I love brew days!

As promised: 4lb of pumpkin flesh (I found 1 large carving pumpkin was more than enough) 435g sultanas 1056g sugar 1tsp tannin juice of 1 lemon 1tsp pectolase 1campden tablet 1tsp yeast Chopped pumpkin flesh and sultanas in fermenting bucket. dissolve sugar in water, add to bucket and wait...

I've got one on the go atm - ill post the recipe when I get home from work. M

This is next on my list - let us know how you go!

I've not tried these as yet. Do these really give a good seal, i.e. can you lay the bottle down with no leakage?

Are you not adding any grape juice to these tinned peach brews? On another forum, I was advised to pop in either a tin of WGC or 1ltr WJC and and full of sultanas. I haven't tried it as yet, but does your grape-juice-free recipe have enough body, do you think?

I'm no expert, but could it be just the excess CO2 still escaping?

Right, looks like its a "bottle and forget" wine then. I'll pop it away somewhere for 6 months and hope for the best.

Out of interest which kit did you opt for? I have one of these fermenting at the moment, but its a Cabernet Sauvingnon, so I'm a little worried now. Not that I expected miracles for £8/kit....

Just had a look to try this one myself. Would you use a high alcohol yeast, or is that not really necessary? Also, feeding the fermentation with sugar is worrying me slightly, in that I don't really know how to do this - is it just a case of mixing 100g of sugar into a little water and dumping...

I take it from your username that you're a Bond fan? I am too and really looking forward to Skyfall! :D

Hi I've got one of these on the go at the moment - just the kit though as I already had the equipment at home. Its been on a week now with no signs of a slowing in fermentation, so the timings in the instructions are most definitely optimistic! I'd be interested in your thoughts on how the...

Hi I've just downloaded this and had a little play. So far, really impressed, just what I was looking for and a lot easier than keeping paper notes all over the place. So thanks! Just going back to a point raised above regarding showing nil sugar content once ingredients are input; I had the...

I've just registered here so thought I'd pop in here and say hi to everyone. I've been making wine for about a year, so still very inexperienced but very keen to learn. Most of my brews have been the WOW-type wines, a couple of kits and a ginger (which is a particular favourite of mine).