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I bought some raspberry syrup today, plan to make some wine with it. I'm sure I saw a recipe o here but I'm damned if I can find it!

Sainsburys had loads of reduced fruit last night, but a nice find was a box of about 10 mangoes. May make this up with Ginger, what do you think?

I was looking through some wine recipes last night and got me thinking that you can pretty much use anything. In Hindsight, I could have saved the pumpkin flesh from Halloween and made some wine. Sainsburys also had loads of chillies in their reduced section and though that would be...

At the risk of rubbing it in, I picked some more today so I can't do another batch of wine, hedges are still pretty full.

Update on the cider. It's finished fermenting already, but gravity is 0.995, will leave it in the bucket till next weekend to clear.

Mines looking a lot more appetising now.

Thanks, it is looking better than it did, more of a golden colour so hopefully it will improve more.

I'm new to this wine lark, but I am a keen gardener and it was my grape vines that started me down the wine route. From a gardening perspective, forced rhubarb is much sweeter so expect that it will make better wine. Its not hard, all your friend needs to do is pop a bucket over the rhubarb in...

Will have to have a try, but plan is to leave it till summer.

8 to 10 ton? Of apples?

Will it clear? It's not quite what I was expecting, tastes good though. Starting gravity was 1054 so should be lethal. I didn't realise how much work it was to squeeze the juice out.

The plastic held up ok but I am certain I could have got more had the base not broken. I am going to make some changes though. Is it meant to be this colour?

It broke! 😠 It was the bottom that was the problem, easy fix, just need to pop out and get some more bolts.

There is a reason it looks so much like yours, you posted a picture on another thread, it was that picture that inspired me. [emoji2]

After being inspired by some of the photos posted on some other posts, I decided to make an apple press rather than buying one. Probably cost me about �£20 as I already had alot of bits, main cost was the jack as I didnt have one. Ok, its not exactly going to make loads, but it will do...

Ah, had to check but yes, guess you will have to level it to settle on its own.

I have got the Kwik Clear Finings, comes in 2 parts, you add one and then the other half hour later. You will notice the differences within the hour but they reccomend 72 hours to settle completely.

Thanks, that settles it for me, Im going to make it and leave it to mature. With all the wine and Cider, next xmas is going to be smashing!

Thanks all, going to be a busy boy this weekend! Will see how it tastes before I decide whether to store or drink straight away.

Ok, so, after being inspired by another post, I have started building an apple press, the frames made, just waiting for a Jack and large straining bag to be delivered. I have been looking online at recipes, but have some questions:- The recipes I looked at don't involve adding sugar, I...