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Ok, so it's nearly a year on. Tried any ?

Cheers Bob, that's pretty extensive thank you. Be printing that one off for my file 👍

I have a straining bag on order and am hoping to have a go at some country wine real soon. Whatever fruit I use if I stew/crush the fruit etc and then make a must up to 4 litres (shoulder of the DJ) and check the SG of the must I'll be able to use one of the conversion charts to work out how...

Hi Bob, I'm thinking of giving Rhubarb a go (as well as Elderberry & Rosehip 😂) What quantities of rhubarb & sugar did you use ?

Thanks John, I found this online. Glad I did or I think I might have been putting in more than 1/2 tsp 😂 http://madalchemead.com/quantity-spice-mead-chart/

So, I've got 2 x 1 gallon DJs of Mead started. Considering favouring 1 for comparison. I've read different opinions as when to add the spices, what do you guys do ? Thinking liquorice and/or Star Anise maybe. Thoughts ?

I 'offered' some of my local friends to recycle their wine bottles 😉 Now it turns out 2 of them consistently drink the same wine and nothing else. Makes for good consistency of bottles. Anyway I recently got handed a big cardboard box of bottles and noticed there was 2 demijohns and a really old...

Well Asda delivery turned up yesterday and I got the Mead on the go today. Thought to myself, this is dead straightforward, knocked it all together, airlocks in and sat down to admire my work 😂 Suddenly thought, OMG forgot the mixed fruit, so back to the kitchen and chopped a handful of...

The Prune was the last to get going, but it's going mad now. Had froth coming out the airlock. After a few hours it calmed down and I got the airlock back in. Bubbling about 3 times a second. The Pineapple, OMG ! It went mad, it's not bubbling so much as just pouring out constant CO2 😂 so I had...

Ok time to sit back and be patient. That's them all bubbling. The pear started within 5 hrs, pineapple took about 18 hrs and the Prune took a full 24hrs to get going. What was weird was the Prune had started do the "lava lamp' but didn't start bubbling for another 4 hrs 😂 Prize for the biggest...

Sat having dinner last night and to my surprise I heard a bubble 😊 The Pear variant started off bubbling within 5 hrs 😯. So today the pear is bubbling about every 5 seconds. The prune has displaced the airlock water levels by about 1mm 😂, but no bubbles yet. The pineapple hasn't done...

I'm going with the sipping Mead 😂 My plan is: 3 (454g) jars of clear honey 1 tablespoon of dried fruit 1 teaspoon Youngs Super yeast 1 teaspoon Youngs yeast nutrient Juice of 1 lemon Plan to let it ferment out fully, then back sweeten to taste, if neccessary.

I'll let you know 👍

Yip 👍 and when the Asda van gets here on Thu, there's 2 DJs of Mead going on 😯. They better not substitute jam or marmalade for my honey 😂😂😂

It's a simple wine made from Supermarket Fruit Juice based on the original Wurzels Orange Wine (recipe/method in this forum).

True, will 200ml make much of a difference though 🤔 Will do 👍

Ok so here goes my first attempt at a WOW 😂 I've got demijohns coming out my ears so I've kicked off 3 at the same time. All 3 have a base of RGJ and Apple (Both 100%). I added up the sugars from each of the juice cartons and added sugar for a total of 1100g per gallon. Dissolved the sugar...

How did you get on with your kit. I did a 30 bottle Youngs Merlot kit recently. 10 bottles seem to have gone already 😂 My Merlot turned out more like a dark rose, but still very pleasant.

Does it need to be Bread yeast or will Youngs Super Wine Yeast do ? Could you use wine stabiliser instead of heating in a pan ? First time I've noticed the use of bottled water. What's the reason for that ? And should I be using it for wine too ? Cheers Colin

I haven't actually got around to my Supermarket Juice Wine making yet, but mead by the pint is sounding very tempting :D