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Bottled or on tap an all round winner!

I need to know where this is! Was talking about cheese and onion rolls just the other day. Brings back memories of rough cider and a cloche or two on the bar, happy, very happy days!

Excitment has built sufficiently, let's get this done! Please send my prize to......

and so the genie is out!

I'm assuming multiple entries are allowed, here's second entry, order: 16808.

That's one grape style I've not made, I'd be very interested to find out how it goes? Classic range?

It's a great source for "things", some of those things are genuine and some of those things are cheap clones (read knock off). There are suppliers of good product and suppliers of bad product. I have learned to avoid the suppliers that are the cheapest and to choose suppliers that have a lot...

Got one of those and I've done a test syphon with water and a real syphon with wine. Good bit of kit, NOTHING like the others I've used at all. Very glad I did the test syphon first as I hadn't secured the end of the tube suffiently during the priming and I sprayed water everywhere! Good...

@buddsy It's a pump I already had, maybe it's a bit too powerful, but it does the trick. As I said I could only get it to work successfully on a glass demijohn. So I'm sticking to drill and wand for my bucket.

Here's a picture of the pump I constructed, no details on the pump itself other than it's powered from a USB charger, i.e. 5V. And a short video of it in action in a demijohn.

See if we can actually meet! Although I'm going to be in Cambridge, then Minehead and back to Bristol over the Xmas and New Year.

@RoomWithABrew You've got some very interesting gadgets, I thought I had a problem, but I'm so jealous!

@RoomWithABrew Does that work with a "flexible" fermentation vessel? I tried a similar approach but only on glass demijohns and it works quite well. I got a little 5V pump and power it from a USB charger, a bit of hose from the pump and the hose through a rubber bung. Doesn't work so well on...

How on earth do you keep wine for 10 weeks!?!? :coat:

How on earth did you keep wine for over 10 years?!?! Having said that when I first made wine (over 30 years ago) I did manage to forget 4 demijohns for over 4 years, 3 were drain cleaner but one was bloddy marvelous!

Very! Our household likes WinExpert Tempranillo, Diablo Rojo and Riesling plus the On The House Viognier. We've been through most of the WinExpert classic range now but there's still to try out there! Well, you don't know until you try right?

You can make some excellent wine from Supermarket juice, difficult to reproduce the same quality each time though in my experience. I've had some wonderful results but mostly just good quafable wine. Having said that for £1 or less per bottle the wine produced is more drinkable than most £5...

I'm in, very exciting... order 16723

My very naive understanding is that if it says a particular grape then it must come from that grape, whatever the quality, region, country, etc. However, if it says grape "style" then it can be a blend of grapes, fruit, or anything else to give a reasonable approximation to that flavour profile.

As @Chippy_Tea says reverse every few seconds is what I do and I do it in a bucket. However, seeing how more controlled it is in a carboy I might keep my eyes open for a carboy!