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Hubby build pizza oven. His next thing is to build me wine rack for all my brews :)

Have to mention that this does need couple of weeks in bottle to bring out the best. At the beginning it is quite harsh but after few weeks in bottle it is turning lovely. Maybe a month will do it even better!! Pleasantly surprised - it taste fine albeit a bit rough after making, but after...

My father in law brews beer. I keep telling him he needs more hops in it as it tastes quite boring :) - I am used to different tastes I suppose! He definitely needs more in his brews for some flavour! Will prob have to get him some dried stuff to chuck in. Although he mainly does wilko kits so...

Damsons make lovely jam too. Very good in cottage cheese damson dumplings!! Make cottage cheese and flour dough- one egg, tubof cottage cheese two teaspoons of sugar and flour to keep it All together when mixed- envelope stoned damson in it to form a filled dumpling and dump in water- when...

What a silly mistake I made... No... added Waitrose merlot grape juice. Not merlot (would have drunk that one!) amended the post! Silly me.

Oh - why did it not work out? The first batch at the moment tastes nice. I had a sneak sample with sterilised straw :) - probably will be drinkable quite soonish as it’s only BlackBerry and blackcurrants with some red grape juice so fruity. Will have to make some jam! Such a shame seeing them...

I have never made wine from blackberries but this year there are so many that I could not resist and put three different experiments on- First one - 1.5kg blackberries, handful of blackcurrants with two litres of Waitrose merlot grape juice and kg of sugar plus 3bag brew for tannin. Left to...

Thank you very much. I have used some real blackcurrant a in blackberry wine. Only used a handful as they are quite a strong flavour (got a bush in garden and nobody wants to eat them as they are so strong :) it gave it a nice hint but more than handful would have been too much. Blackberries are...

Thank you. In the end I have put some apple juice (4l) on top of the pulp (not squeezed it too much as had enough for wine) and without even adding any yeast the residual yeast is working like a trooper. Not sure if end up with cider as such but will see what happens. At the end after fermenting...

What a great name for pizza oven. Other half made one of the youtube one of those gym ball mould ones. Best DIY projects he has done!

Indeed basic sourdough recipe. Just scale it down a bit. Leave it in fridge overnight but works well even when done in morning. Absolutely lovely pizza base. Gives it a nice tang and lovely crunch. And after pizza is done the oven still hot enough to do some crumble or roast in :)

This is a really silly question. Making blackberry wine and will strain the fruit in couple of days. I was thinking keeping the pulp and chucking some apple juice on top of it to make a turbo berry cider. Is this a good idea or the blackberry pulp is spent and will only impart horrible flavour...

Please let us know how the cherry turns out :) wasn’t sure when I looked at the cordials but will do if nice

Hm cherry lowitz... seen that one but did not get it as was not sure how it would taste like. Done the raspberry and strawberry - both absolutely lovely (I did add red grape juice tho) will have to try without. Even MIL loves it! Have to let me know how the cherry ends up like! Raspberry and...

Thank you. Wow 18%! A bit strong material for me- Total sugar 1100- about 14-15%? Hopefully that should be enough for it to keep for a year or more. Got some elder near by too, not ripe yet and might make both dried and fresh to see how they go. Been donated 6glass DJs and trying to fill them up :)

I would like to try the elderberry wine. Got loads of blackberry bushes near by and was thinking of using 1.5kg of those together with 250g dry elderberries - do you think it would also need a litre of red grape juice? Stocked up on juice wines and now trying my hand at country ones as they take...

Can I just say, I am not a seasoned brewer but the vinegar- ish taste happened to me with few kit wines too. I have done quite a few WOWs - rose and variation of and they never had this problem. I did one kit that tasted like you describe and opened a bottle month later and I can still taste it-...

Having visited Austria quite few times - our old family friend Helmut makes his own cider/ they call it most. Just crushes apples and leaves it in cellar - obviously conditions are perfect in the alps and his cellar - what comes out is absolutely wonderful stuff. Dry sharp cider that’s so lovely...

I only started to make wine few months ago- some take 7days some couple of weeks, it is best to give it a bit of time. All of mine cleared absolutely fine. Some WOWs just take longer depending on juice used. All rose ones are clear nearly within two days. Pale ones take a bit longer for some...

Thank you Will keep that in mind, although red is now the only wine I buy as nothing really gets close. I run out of space so will have to give brewing a break (apart from country wines that take ages) :)