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I posted this at lunchtime. I've since left the glass out for a few hours and tried it again this evening with some food and found it to be much better! It's still very sour but I can tell it's not "wrong" per se. Best thing so far is taking a bite of "Party Ring" biscuit and then drinking the...

OK, the wine has been in the first demijohn for 5 months so today I tried my first racking. I've siphoned it into a second demijohn, added a crushed campden tablet, and put an airlock on again. There was a bit of leftover wine on top of the sediment after siphoning so I poured it into a glass...

Good news! I gave it a good stir and there was plenty of agitation and gas - it doesn't seem to be quite as aggressive as I'm accustomed to with beer, but I'm only doing 1 gallon whereas I normally do 4 gallons of beer so I guess I should adjust my expectations down!

Hello First attempt at wine making using neighbour's grapes. I used the below guide which I cobbled together from various websites. The must is in a fermenting bucket with a sealed lid (a Young's u-Brew one). Normally, with beer, I see lots of activity after the first 24 hours, froth, pushing...

25 days in primary fermentation and SG dropped to 1114. Planning to keg this weekend.

Just a little progress update. After 15 days in the primary fermentation vessel, the SG is now 1020. After a vigorous first few days (look at the tide mark!), fermentation has now slowed down to a crawl. home. asktoby. com/toby/Brew.JPG (The forum won't allow a proper link so sorry about the...

What a helpful bunch you are! :) I've just finished a Woodfordes Wherry which I found a bit weak so was looking for something a bit stronger. So the plan: Slowly add 1 can of warm Nelson's revenge, stirring Add 500 g sugar, stirring Recover until fermented. Keg with 100g sugar as per original...

Just measured the starting gravity: 1040. I think I'll add one Nelson's Revenge tin.

Oh no! Just made Woodforde's Headcracker http://www.woodfordes.co.uk/headcracker.html up to 24 litres instead of 24 pints! I've made it up to 24 litres or 40 pints (i.e. double the water :( ) It's sitting in my fermentation bucket now, yeasted, only just noticed. Anything I can do to recover...