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Hello. Where I come from we drink kefir nearly every day. After fermenting and straining out the grains store in fridge in a jar and give it a good shake to break up any lumps before pouring into cup ad drinking. Goes well with fresh buttered bread :) or just as a drink when feeling peckish...

The one without peaches tastes better in my opinion... don’t know but the peaches sort of gave the other one like a slight rotting aroma - but it’s still too early to be honest and might end up brilliant.

Hello. Just used big half a litre cup with three bags of tea and left for 10 min to brew

What a revelation finding this forum. Apart from country wines, wow wines and kits I had a go at fruity turbo cider. 1l red fruits juice from Asda polish isle (100%juice no preservatives) 4l apple juice Yeast + 300ml Robinson’s strawberry and watermelon cordial and 6tsp sugar after fermenting...

Hello. Used basic recipe Used 1.5-2kg bananas Or there abouts 250raisins 900g sugar Three bag brew Citric acid Pectolase Yeast and nutrient Chopped bananas (Half with skins), put in a big pot with raisins and sugar and 2l water. Brought to simmer and simmered for 45 minutes. Left to cool and...

First time making banana wine! What a revelation. This lockdown has definitely got some hobbies developed :) Tasted first one - very slight banana undertone but tastes more like full bodied white wine. Boiling bananas in sugar with raisins for 45 minutes and then leaving them to cool, pitching...

Might try that. Looks like the rhubarb just keeps going (it’s next to compost heap). Good idea with the plastic Water bottles :) doing my second banana wine in one of those and rack to glass after finished for conditioning. Think will probably manage to get another one on in couple of weeks...

Making third batch already... mine looses colour as soon as add campden - that bleaches it right to dishwater colour. The one that cleared ended up nice straw colour but never got the pink back from the starting juice! Or maybe my rhubarb is not pink enough and is a different variety. Well to...

That makes sense. Both of mine turned up completely different - the first one still slowly bubbling away and the second is done and put away in cupboard. My rhubarb is still growing like mad...

Glad to hear that :) I knew you need to leave it for a long time but did not expected it to taste that bad :) Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. That might be why the other one is still slowly bubbling away and the second one that was in sugar for three days and then squeezed out Is already finished fermenting and cleared. Can I just ask is it normal for rhubarb wine to taste quite bitter when young and will mellow...

Thank you so much for your reply. Perhaps they included a little bit too much in their little bag. Will try and use 1 campden tab instead of what’s included. As normally 1 tab in gallon is absolutely fine taste wise. Wine is ok if I pour it and then bubble it with straw (great fun, have not done...

My first banana wine is ready to be put away for a long while... and my second will follow in months time. Had a wee taste from No1 and it’s lovely. Hot from alcohol still but fruit undertones and will be lovely after some conditioning. Number two will be racked off after a month into a glass...

I think I cracked it! The wine smells like campden tablets. I assume that the stabilising sachet was quite large and it makes the wine smell a bit. I opened a bottle of campden tablets and realised it’s the same smell. Sour oniony vinegary smell. Hopefully it will go after a while - or will just...

Few more on the go :) Trying the one from another member on here with raspberry lowitz, (could not wait for outcome as got my hands on the cordial :) Half a bottle of lowitz Apple juice And red grape juice Now topped up and letting it finish Strawberry, tinned peach fruit and grape juice one...

Not sure about this one still. The wine tastes ok but the smell is quite strong and hits you when drinking not making it very pleasant :) - perhaps it is sulfites and I just need to leave the wine alone maturing for a bit? This is the first kit that turned out like this. Made few Solomon Grundy...

Have strained the banana and it is better, still some weird after taste but I have used different yeast for these two- so might be that! Hopefully it will go. Will leave it to finish - nothing to loose :)

Received replacement and it’s being put on today :) juice smelled completely different and looked different :) - looking forward to tasting it in couple of weeks

Currently clearing tinned peach juice wine. Think this is the best one I done so far! 3 Big 830g tins of peach halves in grape juice from Lidl drained and 1l apple juice . Sugar to 1090, green tea brew plus all the usual. Lovely light white wine! Started on 3rd July and already fermented out...

Anybody ever came across soapy taste in their WOW? Two fermenters, one with rose and a completely unrelated banana taste like soap. Did not touch both at the at the same time with the same thing and only stirred the banana with sterilised straw and licked after(as you do) and the rose - checked...