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1 gallon maple turbocider 188 gallons

Into a 250ml highball glass pour the following: 1 shot vodka Squeeze of lime juice 1 slice of lime (optional) 225ml red grape juice Ice cubes Simple but delicious!

1 gallon experimental low-alcohol red 147 gallons

Update: I experimented with one J20 bottle and some of the left-overs from cider bottling, plus 25ml apple juice to prime. The bottle did not explode, so a few weeks ago I primed the rest and filled them with rosepetal cider. They go into the fridge on Tuesday.

I'd go for the port.

The almond flavour of the sloes will compliment the cherries very well. Sloes can be overpowering, so use two to three times as many cherries to avoid them being drowned out. You shouldn't need tannin as sloes contain very high levels - it's one of the reasons why they're unpleasant to eat raw...

The amount of alcohol in the mixture should mean that oxidation isn't too much of an issue, however you could divide a campden tablet between the jars just in case.

There might be a barely perceptible change in flavour, but nothing significant enough to worry about. TBH the "5 gallon" thing is only a guideline, not a guarantee. Some ciders & wines need a lot more finings, while others need none.

The chlorine in tapwater evaporates after about a day, faster if there's a good ferment going, so has little (if any) effect on the final flavour. There isn't enough in tapwater to have a noticeably significant effect on the yeast. The campden tablet will be a more of an issue - you'd ideally...

I put my left-over ginned sloes into some sloe port. This is the combination I used: 75cl red wine 23cl (1/3 bottle) brandy 110g (1/3 jar) honey OR 75g granulated or demerara sugar About 500g sloes, any combination of ginned and frozen. This should all fit into a 1.5L Kilner jar.

How did the vodka turn out, OB?

Another option is 50g dried elderberries per gallon. This will also improve the flavour, since TC can be a bit lacking.

The best wax to use is beeswax. Paraffin wax is too brittle and soywax too soft. The wax is infinitely reusable.

Hoping for logic from government officialdom? Next thing you'd be asking for pixie dust so you can fly to Venus :lol: I'm unable to donate. Not because I'm gay (I'm not much into anal or oral, I prefer more interesting stuff that the ban doesn't apply to) but because I have a needle phobia. I...

Should that be "My Hermes that DIDN'T deliver"? I was thinking it would be UPS, which many of my friends call "OOPS" for their rather impressive degree of incompetence. This is a company that failed to find a building with its own unique postcode four days in a row. I know others have had...

Filled with stones or bricks, of course, to maximise the postage costs.

I've said before that blackcurrants (if you use the whole fruit) can produce a very acceptable red WOW. Per gallon you need 2L RGJ (or two bottles of concentrate) 550-700g blackcurrants (depending on personal taste) 700g sugar, plus the usuals - oak chips, nutrient, tannin, acid, glycerine, and...

Add immediately before bottling, and add to taste, the same as with sweetener. Since they're either extracts or artificial flavourings, you may also want to add some food dye. A mixture of mostly dark red/cochineal and a little blue should give you the colour you want.

I'd be stunned if you'd had even a hint of frost in London yet. Bedford averages 3-4C colder, and we've had only one very light frost this winter. I'm not sure if freezing will have the same effect as a hard frost, but it will break down some of the cell walls, which is desirable.

A hard frost does. It starts the process that changes the starch into sugars.