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Hi all, so with your help and advice I have been merrily working my way through some TCs. I did three types - Straight TC Straight TC with sweetener Straight TC made with raspberry Lowizc All coming out at about 5.3% and all perfectly palatable - but best served chilled. I do feel that they...

... watermelon wine...what's the recipe for that!!??

Hi - if I bulk age my country wines in 5 litre glass djs, should I add an airlock, or just a bung...or a bored bung with cotton wool? Out of interest, these wines were fermented to dry. Have already been stabilised. and racked a couple of times, So I would anticipate there is no active...

as ever - thank you! :cheers3:

Still a bit confused about this degassing. I have various fruit wines now, in 5L Demijohns. I'll be degassing with a wand/coat hanger and drill. I get that I'm spinning, fast, one way. Then the other. To try and agitate rather than a deep vortex - although it will of course spin. I will do...

Hi, so, I have racked my mango WOW - and "wow"...it tastes, at this point, pretty good! It fermented down to about 1005....with no airlock activity for a few days. And has a lovely, and fairly strong mango flavour. And has a slight sweetness that I like. This is giving me an ABV of about 13%...

Ok...I've finally done it! After weeks of asking, I finally have some thing bottled. Thanks must go to my mum, my dad, my teachers, Mr Smith my badminton coach...and all the wonderful help (to date) on here. This is my first batch of Cherry TC. 3.5 l AJ 1/2 bottle Lowizc cherry 1 tsp...

Thank you Bigcol49. That all makes sense. I have gallons of wine and cider on the go, and as a complete newbie. I thought I was ready for the next, bottling, phase...but have had a list minute panic as I read conflicting information... Your advice is reassuring. Plus, I'm getting all...

Thanks Bigcol49; that is a reassuring amount of syrup...and long the lines of what I had read elsewhere (21, up to 65g/ Demijohn). However...my confusement, posted on other threads here, is that some Lowizc TCs are priming their DJ with half a bottle of syrup! Am I misunderstanding something!?

Hi, hope I'm not too late for this older thread... What should I be doing, or am I doing wrong, that I am just getting dry cider that tastes just about of apples? I had hopped is get a sweet (ish) and flavoured batch. 2 litres fresh AJ 2 litres Tesco AJ 200ml Lowizc cherry 1 mug tea 1 tap...

So...my first flavoured TC is ready. 2 litres fresh preasep AJ 2 litres Tesco AJ 200ml Lowizc cherry 1 mug strong tea Tsp pwctolpec Plain old wine yeast. Start SG 1052 Now finished (12 days) at 994 My questions.... It's not very cherry flavoured. And of course quite dry. -Should it be more...

So, doing that, making it go all bubbly and releasing the gas, this is ok? It rids the co2...but doesn't oxidize? So it's ok? I have some strawberry wine - it has finished fermenting. It's been stabilised and is now bulk maturing in its djs. Not degassed yet. No finings added yet. I read...

Thank you chippy_tea. What am I aiming to do then? Just get the liquid to move around? Agitate it but not make it bubbly?

I'm a bit confused by this degassing malarkey. If I'm not creating a vortex...what am I supposed to be doing? If I am sharing the DJ...how vigorous? I am a little confused what I'm aiming for...

Thanks! That is reassuring, in a round about kinda way! When I had a practice pasteurising...I did wear goggles as well.... ashock1

I came across this online...and wonder if it is a worth while way to sweetness... I assume it keeps fermenting until the yeast becomes "ex-yeast"! For a sweet wine, rack at three weeks. Add 1/2 cup sugar dissolved in 1 cup wine. Stir gently, and place back into secondary fermentor. Repeat...

Please do direct me as I'm sure this topic must have been discussed...but a reasonable search and I couldn't find anything.... So...bottling (cider)... I have amber 500ml glass bottles (and caps etc). I also have new 500ml amber PET plastic bottles with caps. My dilemma, which is entirely...

...does this help: https://mpesgens.home.xs4all.nl/thwp/sugar.html (there's a table about a third of the way down....)

Adding honey at the end; will that result in more fermentation or just add sweetness?