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Many thanks for all your advice. I hadn't thought of adding a bit of red grape concentrate to restore the blush colour, so i might give that a try. Will keep in mind about the campden tablets having this effect when I make rhubarb wine later this month. Cheers

Every year I make green gooseberry sparkling wine which is always a big hit. I had some spare goosegogs in the freezer (red and green) so I thought it would be a really good idea to try a rosé goosegog sparkling wine following my normal recipe. When I added the citric acid, pectolase and...

Many thanks for this information, very useful to know other people have had the same problem. Do you have any idea how to solve the problem? Would you advise finings or filtering?

Any help on this would be brilliant... So a gallon each of gooseberry wine and strawberry wine fermented out and racked till sparling clear. Just before deciding to bottle a crushed campden tablet was added and the wine has subsequently gone cloudy. That was about 3 weeks ago, has anybody...

Many thanks for the advice and tips! Will get brewing this weekend after I have been blegging!

I have noticed that this year there are loads of elderberries. Previously I have made elderberry wine, but after a scan through CJJ Berry's winemaking bible noticed a recipe for English Port using elderberries, blackberries, currants and sloes. I was wondering if anyone else has made it...

Pectin enzyme and pectolase are the same thing. And its important for damsons as they contain lots of pectin (which is why they make such good jam!) and otherwise it will take ages for the wine to clear, if ever. Good luck!

Thanks for the warm welcome! Whilst I have made a few beers in my time, every brew is different and I still have to glean a lot of help from the owners of Glen Brew supplies in Glasgow! I still have a lot to learn... Sarah

Hello All, I have been homebrewing wine and beer for a few years now. I started off on kits and now onto grain brewing which I really enjoy. I have an allotment which reguarly produces gluts of fruit for wine, veg for food and lots and lots of slugs! (for which I haven't found a booze-based...