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White wine - I did nice Chardonnay style from forum (does not have grape juice in it but tastes nice) 1l pineapple 100%juice 1.5l apple juice 800g sugar Pectolase 3 bag green tea brew Pectolase Yeast and nutrient Put it demijohn - only fill in to shoulder as pineapple is a volcano... top up...

I have made some blackberry wine with handful of elderberries. I think there are still some blackberries left and great to gather them when you out and about. I know it should age a bit for drinking but I have racked it after a month and had a taste and it would be great in beef stew or...

Running out of demijohns now. Have to report that the “seconds” brew is wonderful! Have not touched the blackberry/ elderberry demijohns other than racking and putting away for a while, but the “seconds” ferment with the Waitrose merlot and apple juice and 1kg of sugar, steeping the pulp for 5...

Thank you :) will let it finish and see what happens - I will either have 10l of white wine or vinegar ... fingers crossed ... and fly has been fished out :) - did not make it though

I have been making peach in grape juice wine , leaving the mushed up fruit in straining bag for 5 days, this morning when I was getting the straining bag out I found a Fly floating in the fermenter :( - the lid was not clipped all the way to allow gasses to escape but I thought no creature could...

Just had a bottle of this two months after bottling. It mellowed and does not taste as dry and does not taste so much alcoholic as it did to start with :) - done few wows and even though they are quite quick drinkers they do benefit from couple of months conditioning :)

I suppose I have to make the jam Out of them now - I keep promising my hubby :) ...

I have actually found a new patch of blackberries :) the usual place is in the sun most of the day and those are on way out... the new batch is in the woods and those are just starting... so I was mistaken and I keep on picking! Damn. Running out of space and demijohns :)

Sorry just seen this post and I know it’s a bit oldish but I am also curious about the outcome, I have done wilkos Sauvignon blanc and have experienced the same thing, it’s been bottled since June and opened one the other day and although it calmed down a bit I can still smell it, somebody on...

Thank you, had a look at this :), scary with the mould top! Perhaps will try as experiment if I get loads of sloe berries

Thank you, I think I will dump the lot - probably not worth it :) thinking about it. Was extra with the gratefully received fermenter and demijohn thank you a lot for your advice

so many different wild plumish species! These however definitely had thorns on (tried it out when dived in for a juicy one to try it :) - still puckers your face but nor so much you not able to actually eat it. Perhaps my description of big as grapes was a bit over the top :) maybe max 1.5 cm...

Been donated some equipment. Two demijohns with 25 l fermenter, old heater, two part air locks and big bag of out of date chemicals. Does anybody know if any of these are useable or shall I just chuck them? None of them were opened. kwik clear - bbe 16 tronozymol -bbe 16 wine tannin - bbe 16...

I was wondering whether somebody has a good sloe wine recipe. Found wonderful few bushes on my walk, sloes the size of grapes and recon will be ready in few weeks ( even though they Normally need till end of October - checked them out and they squishy and I am able to eat one....) thought 2kg...

Strained my big batch of blackberry/elderberry to 3gal carboy and had some left over - would be shame to waste all that juice - though of trying some ‘seconds’ rose with it. Put berry pulp (not squeezed) into straining bag with left over wine, poured 1 red fruit 100%juice added 700g sugar And...

Will have to check them out in that case. Never made sloe anything - wine sounds good!

Can not believe how quickly this one fermented. Probably because of the weather... it was done in 4-5 days. Bottled it now with some extra sweetener and sugar to carbonate. Thank you. Having a small glass left over now (I think it’s sweet enough as is, but hubby likes really sweet things - so...

I think you have to leave sloe berries a little while longer :) normally after first frost... we’ll probably end of October early November time for sloe. I think with blackberries it depends where in UK you are. I am South East and they are turning mushy and dried up :(

Made last batch of blackberry/elderberry today. Looking at blackberries around it’s the end of them now. Trying 50/50 (ish) split with elderberries for this one 3kg fruit (Frozen first) in straining bag, 1kg sugar, campden and pectolase, water to 5l - will pop in yeast tomorrow and leave to...

It’s a mystery - possibly pectin haze as chippy suggested. Just a thought - did you top up with juice or water after campden and stabilising at the first racking? I have once topped up with apple juice and had problem clearing as it kept slowly fermenting again - but eventually got there and...