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Just saying, I add natural flavourings to most of my fruit wines. It's just far more economical. Considering you need about 6-8lbs of cherries per gallon for a true cherry wine. We add natural flavourings to our jams, baked goods and cocktails. So why not our wines? I made a 22L batch of...

Some pictures from making the peach concentrate.

So I attempted to make my fiancee a special wine for valentine's Day as a gift. She is mainly a red drinker as she doesn't like sweet wines. My challenge was to make a rose wine that wasn't overly sweet. With strong fruit flavours. I decided to make a rose and peach wine. The recipe is as...

Just finished this mojito wine and it's now in the clearing stage. Just wanted to post the recipe because it tastes amazing! Recipe 4 limes, cut in half and juiced. All added to fermenter 10 Tesco own peppermint tea bags 1kg of sugar 4 black tea bags for tannin 1 TSP citric acid 1 TSP Wilko...

Update. It's now day 6 and it's down to 1.020. This one's definitely a slow one! Not anywhere near as dark of a red as I was hoping from the added cherries. Definitely should have made them into a concentrate before adding them to the wine like I had done on previous batches. It smells good...

Thanks, should have an update for you all today or tomorrow. I used the entire can of cherries including all the juice. When cherries are canned, they release a lot of the tannin from the skins into the juice in the can. Hence if you want to achieve a nice "dark" red the full can most be used...

Thank you for the response. Just out of curiosity really want to work out an estimated abv. I didn't take an original gravity reading. But I know the total sugar in the kit should have fermented out to 11%. I thought it was higher but after checking the instructions it's definitely 11%. Can...

Hi all So I recently brewed some Solomon Grundy fruit wines. 3 of them yielded 6 70cl bottles. 2 of them only yielded 3.5 litres. Instead of 4.5 litres. I now realize this happened because the 5L water bottles that I used as DJs don't actually hold 5 litres!! 1kg of sugar in 3.5 litres of...

Just wanted to start a thread for one of my experimental recipes. I'm attempting to make a good, cheap red wine using Tesco's forest fruits fresh juice. I started a batch of this in a DJ on Monday. It's currently bubbling away and I'll keep updating this thread along the brew process. The...

Well I brewed up a number of 6 bottle Solomon Grundy fruit wines. Apricot, cherry, peach, billberry, Elderflower. After clearing and removing the sediment I ended up with around 3 X 1 litre bottles from each kit. Worked out at £3.35 per bottle. Honestly not worth anywhere near £3+ per...

Regarding that 2.2kg kit Tom with 1.43kg of grape stuff. My point though is how much of that 1.43kg is actually grape concentrate. 1.43kg grape stuff could mean anything from grape extract to plain old grape juice. I know with the Solomon Grundy cabernet Sauvignon that I brewed recently. It...

After brewing some of the cheap wine kits such as the Solomon Grundy golds and wine buddies £20 range I have began to get very curious at just how much grape concentrate is in these kits. An average litre of grape concentrate (mixed varieties) costs £14. And still around £8 even at wholesale...

Just wanted to mention that in my opinion the Vine Co Classics are by far better value than the beaverdales. The Vine Co Classics have nearly 1/3 more of grape concentrate.

Just finished brewing the 30 bottle Solomon Grundy Gold Cabernet Sauvignon wine kit. This was the first "low" value kit I've brewed previously I've only brewed cellar 7 and wine expert. When I opened the kit I was fairly disappointed. It came with a tiny little bottle of grape concentrate...

I'm looking for a kilju recipe that will finish fermenting to 14% ABV within 7 days. It needs to be a clean recipe that won't produce lots of off flavours. Can someone recommend me a good recipe and the best yeast to use to achieve 14% abv within 7 days of fermentation? For anyone who...

@aamcle I would say around 12 months. With my cellar 7 wine kit I tasted it every 3 months and it tasted amazing at 12 months.

@DocAnna I've never had an issue with this "kit" taste that you describe with the higher end wine kits. Think wine expert limited editions and private reserves. The cheapest I can vouch for is the Vine Co with 8l of grape juice for £45. Way cheaper than the £100 kits and pretty comparable in...

Thanks Chippy! Very informative indeed! I've brewed many of wine kits but only the more expensive kits £45-£100. Wanted to try some of the cheaper kits and just wanted some information on them! So I'm gathering that I should expect the cheaper kits (Solomon Grundy, winebuddy ect) to be...

Let me just start by saying I know there is a lot more to home brewing other than the cost saving but for me it is a significant consideration. After all no point producing a wine for the same price as you could get the same quality wine from a supermarket. The 6 bottle kits seem to vary...