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Hi. Mrs Crabtree and I acquired some enormous quinces last autumn - a few were left over after she made quince cheese so I chopped them up and added them to what was left of my collection of blackberries and attempted to make some wine out of them. I had a little sort out of my winery (cupboard...

Took me a few hours... :D

Interesting. The recipe says the OG is 1040 and FG is 1010. Have not been measuring the gravity of my country wines so have only a partial idea of what all this means.

Ah, nice website and good prices indeed. Sour yeast... tempting! Have already bought a £4 sachet of "Nottingham" ale yeast after a cursory search online, being too lazy to travel to Brockley where my nearest homebrew shop is....

Ha-ha, wine seems much easier judging by the beer instructions. Ta for the tip, MashBag. Surname is not Crabtree, no, just a silly tribute to the Big Man, now I find myself in a place called Shirley.

Hi, all! I was googling nettle beer recipes and decided to log on here and ask a question..... anyway, hi from Shirley in the London Borough of Croydon! Fed up with the price of beers and wines these days, I've been making (trying to make) country wines using Ian Ball's book Wine Making the...

Ah, nice one, thank you! Will give it a go with 3g.... just need to brave the nettle patches first, ha-ha.

Hi. Google led me here.... I'm a year into a wine-making hobby and am planning a foray into nettle beer, having recently bought the River Cottage booze book. Just wondering if anyone could tell me if the 11g of ale yeast that the recipe calls for (makes a gallon of nettle beer) is far too much...