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Hi here's what i did. I always make more than what i need & use the excess to top up after racking. sometimes i end up with an extra litre at the end or that i bottle as well. instead of using demijohns i use old robinsons orange juice bottles as that are thick PET plastic. I make a hole in the...

Hi After fermentation has fully stopped, i currently rack my wine into demijohns, add 1/16th tsp SodMet per gall, plus fermentation stopper & seal with either a bung and bubbler, or use a plastic safety stopper (if it fits the demijohn, some dont due to varying DJ neck sizes), leaving for 6...

Chippy_Tea: If you are going to quote me, at least include the point i made relevent to the fact !! i.e "... (as long as they give a nice snug fit and can be screwed tight)" it should be quite obvious that if it isnt a tight and snug fit it wont be used - who is going to spend a lot of time...

I had this problem with apple wine a cpl years ago and put it down to bottling too early and maybe forgetting to add fermentation stopper after backsweetening so fermentation re-started, but i havent had the problem since. I also had an issue adding a campden and fermentation stopper after...

when i bottle my wine i reuse the original screw tops that came with the bottles (as long as they give a nice snug fit and can be screwed tight). Personally i wouldnt use JD bottles as the screw tops are not that deep and i would be worried that they wouldnt seal as well but that's my...

Thanks for the reply. I have just taken a reading at exactly 1.000 - normally i would expect my fermented out wine to be about 0.992. For some of my recent brew's i have started to add yeast nutrient at the same time as the pectolase and then sprinkle the yeast on top of the must 24hrs later...

I'm running out of space to store bottle's so instead of bottling after 6 months am backsweetening and storing in demijohns with a rubber bung before bottling sometime down the line. There's always people selling 'em or maybe have a look at carboots, preloved, gumtree and the like. I have...

I just use a word document with a page per brew detailing ingredients, method, readings and everything i need to know to remake it, along with comments on the finished wine. if i make the brew again (or a similar one) i just cut / paste / edit, and when making it print the page off as a...

Hi i started a couple gallons of dark fruit wine start feb, pitched yeast after a cpl days (hydrometer 1.100, using lalvin ec-1118 yeast) and racked into secondary after a week. it's 6 weeks later since i racked it off and it's still fermenting away strongly with a good bubble every 8 seconds...

It's generally fair to say the longer the better IMHO. when i first started i didnt want to make just quick student bedsit booze, i wanted to try make it as good a quality as i can, and knew that i wouldnt have anything for the first year or therabouts, but once you get rolling and make regular...

I have never had the need for a messy blow off tube. I always do primary fermentation in a bucket with a loose lid and plenty of headspace. I dont make beer but would have thought the principle is the same for both wine and beer, although im no expert lol - doesnt the brew need plenty of oxygen...

i have just started to drink the blackberry wine i made last april, and for 2 gallons + a 2 litre 'topup' which produced 13 bottles in the end, i used 3.3kg frozen blackberries from farmfoods for £10, along with 3kg sugar & EC1118 yeast, and that turned out at 13.7% after full fermentation and...

thanks for the 2 who replied, i bought some 'fresh' 'ripe' pineapples from morrisons, and when i cut into them they were awful, no pineapple smell, a mushy brown layer under the skin, hard all over under that, and just not right, so i returned them and got my cash back, then bought tins of...

Hi my usual method after fermentation stops, involves racking into demijohns and leaving for 6 months (maybe also racking after 3 months as well), backsweetening, then bottling and leaving for at least another 3-6 months before drinking, however i'm running out of space to store all the...

i make wine not beer, but i make sure all equipment is clean first, then i place everything that will come into contact with the wine in my bucket containing chemsan (obv. diluted as per) for 5-10 mins minimum, before use, including spoons, trial jars, hydrometers, siphons - everything. i also...

Hi Im thinking of making 2 gallons of pineapple wine, and either i buy fresh pineapples from the supermarket and prepare them myself, or i buy frozen pineapple such as the four season chunks from Aldi. I have had success before using frozen fruit not only because of less mess and fiddling, but...

funnily enough on Thursday i started my own 2 gallon of wine using 6 x 500g of the aldi black forest fruits at a fantastic £1.49 per packet. I used 10ltr water and added 3kg sugar, and the sg came out at a handy 1.100. i like to make at least a litre more than exactly 2 gallon and ferment it...

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Been preparing my chilli plants for overwintering. after quite a bumper crop this year i was amazed how many chilli's i found still on the plants, so dehydrated them in my aga and am just about to put them through a blender to make a few jars of flakes for friends as i have more...