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Hello. I have done two batches of rhubarb wine side by side. Cut up stalks left in sugar for few days - one I squeezed all the juice and made up to 1090 in gallon demijohn (added a bit of apple juice to top up) - I could not believe how fast it fermented. Took two weeks and by the end of third...

Thank you very much. I was not really thinking years ... serves me right ;) . Cling film idea sounds good and hopefully keeps few months.

A question that probably has been answered somewhere before but I can not find it! I am running out of glass bottles. How long can I keep WOW in pet bottles? Contained sparkling water and are green 1l ones. Thank you :)

Thank you for your reply and all the help!

Hm will try to open another one in couple of days but If that it is the same they all might be drain cleaners :( such a shame. Fingers crossed. Or might be a infection ... left all the bottles in Milton sterilising solution for a while. Maybe have to look into another means of sterilising :)

Oh dear. Just bottled wilko Sauvignon blanc wine kit and the half bottle left in the fridge smells a bit like vinegar! Brewed it exactly the same as my wows and sterilised everything but this one might be a gonner :( ... All the rest turned out well - not sure where I have gone wrong :(

They were 94p a tin big double tins in their bakery isle and definitely in grape juice (that’s what it said on the tin :) ) think 840g 430 drained so three made about a litre of grape juice infused by peaches. Saved the fruit and froze. Used half of fruit with some cheapo reduces strawberries...

Thank you :) all bottled and will give it a little while before I taste it again. Pineapple one actually tastes nice apart from chill haze but glad to hear it will go over time. Will give it a month- as it’s quite nice just hazy when chilled. Look forward to the tinned peach wine x got some...

Hm. I am brewing some cranberry, raisins and apple juice wine... perhaps was a mistake judging by your experience. The grapefruit one is mellowing a bit after few days now - hoping few weeks or a month will do it good. Hopefully the cranberry will do the same.

Perhaps I stop experimenting and stick with the forums Rosé :) and kits :) Don’t think I can find any replacement for white WOW without grape juice...

Hm some juices probably not make a nice WOW... experimented with grapefruit juice... it’s nearly fermented but tasted after taking hydrometer reading and the grapefruit is quite bitter and overpowers everything 1lpineapple 1l grapefruit 2L apple 500g sultanas 0.5l passion fruit rubicon in 10l...

Just to give update :) The MYO got back to me and advised that it might be how the kit was stored at the shop or coming up to the end of use by and promised to send a replacement direct from them. :) looking forward giving the kit another go, hopefully soon! Thank you for your help!

Thank you so much for doing this. I have emailed their customer support but have not heard back yet. Thank you again

Don’t mind a bit of sediment :) having some mango/ apple on the go that’s having quite a bit of ‘floaters’ at the moment and made mango, pineapple that threw out some crud too. Just thinking of the taste and colour hoping I could use green tea for tannin instead of the usual :) thank you - off...

Anybody tried green tea instead of black tea brew in WOW? would like to make a pale white wine - not straw colour... is it ok to use green tea instead of black tea for tannins? Thinking of bunging together juice of 5 - 6 tins of peaches(it’s grape juice) and Copella apple and pear and use some...

Hello. Please let me know how it turns out. I have made variation on the rose with Rock organic blackcurrant squash (put whole bottle in 750ml!!!) not unpleasant but will only do half or third next time as it’s a bit strong :) not alcohol wise. So 200-300ml should be just the ticket :)

That’s what I was thinking :) . Pineapple one I have done is clear in bottle but gets chill haze in fridge and it does not bother me in the slightest. Thank you again for all your help :)

Thank you :) will put it away for a while - week should do it in this weather? Sorry to keep asking - do I add finings when done? To be honest don’t mind it fermenting a bit as I should have topped up with water as prefer it dryer. The other one I topped up with cranberry juice (that one does...

Oh goodness, this lockdown has been definitely different to normal life! Other half built pizza oven in the garden, I have been nursing sourdough starter for the past three months - not bought bread for ages and now turned my kitchen into mini lab churning out WOWs and few kits. Goodness I think...

Thank you for this! I know topping up with apple juice is sometimes risky... Used wilkos 2 part finings - Split between two demijohns. The other is clearly getting there with half of it clear and haze slowly descending - this one is slightly hazy- all of it. It’s only been one day and a bit so...