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Aha so maybe there is nowt wrong with the gooseberry - but the hawthorn was lovely last year and tastes different this year, I used berries from the same plant. Very sad, you know when you have a triumph and try to repeat it? I made honeysuckle one year and when I opened it at Xmas the scent of...

Well I have bottled one demijohn and it's pretty rough so I will leave the other for 12 months and see - it can't get much worse...

no I freeze it then defrost and pour boiling water over, and the harder fruits i squish with my hands when cool. I leave on the pulp for 4 or 5 days then siphon into demijohns to ferment. Sometimes I don't get to rack off very soon after ferment fninishes -because you don't know what day that...

no, I know what you mean but i know what that tastes like and it isn't that, this isn't something that is going to mellow. Also hawthorn and gooseberry are quite light wines and the ones i made last year were lovely in a couple of months. Any other ideas? It worries me that more than one brew...

OK I know loads of things that can totally ruin a brew and I'm really careful about sterilising and hygiene but I have had a couple of brews lately ( hedgerow fruit wines) that have an odd, slightly bitter undertaste. Not the sort of nasty taste that shows it's off but not quite right. Not so...

Hello I live in Somerset England I used to brew wine big time 20 years ago ( I kept a cellar full!) but haven't for many years and have just started again last year. I seem to have lost some of the skills and some of my brews have been rubbish :sick: and I don't know why, so have joined here to...