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I've just gone down my local polish food store and they had about 4 flavours of this cordial. I've used it to back sweeten a 14% raspberry & blackberry wine that I've made from scratch. Tastes awesome... Not sure I should be drinking 5 week old brew though, not sure what that is going to do...

If you pick one day as the fruit is going past it's best. Wash it and then freeze it.. Does this have any benefits when going through the breakdown process? I made sure I avoided any with mould on and they were still viable Raspberry's and BlackBerrys. I didn't bother adding a Campden Tab in...

So my secondary ferment is under way. I've filled a DJ to the shoulder and popped a couple of bottles to the side in the shed @ 15 degrees for top up purposes later on when the DJ becomes a little less active. The main batch in my DJ is bubbling away very nicely at 19 degrees in my kitchen and...

Well I've drunk a bit of wine in my time but this is my 1st time making some of my own. 1st recipe is blackberry & raspberry country wine. Wish me luck, I think I've going to need some sunshine on my raspberry vines here in Oxfordshire next year and plenty of spare DJs. Woo look an acronym!

Hah I nearly emptied my airlock full of water that had campden tablet solution in it - into the bucket with my mash and pectic enzyme. Perhaps I should pop some toilet bleach in with the critters I am about to enter into the equation tomorrow.. :tongue:

Well the plan is : now my mash has cooled is to put the pectic enzyme in, tomorrow night yeast+nutrient and then stir it every day . Then I am going to pop the 200ml of grape extract in after straining my berries and in at the same time as I place the brewing sugar in on Saturday night. C.J.J...

Hi, This is my 1st wine making expedition, just got some basic kit and C.J.Berry's book. Everything is nicely sterilized and I'm raring to go. I have a 1kg of Brambles and half a kilo of Raspberrys that I picked over the weekend washed and froze.. I've just mashed up with 4.5Litres of water...