wine

Hi all, sorry if this is in the wrong place to post. New to the forum... Just would like to know where a good place to buy "cork" wine bottles from, new or used. I've been on ebay and FB market place and had a few good hits but I find supply a little slow. In an ideal world I'd like all the same...

Hi I've just started my first fermentation (one 5l bottle of cranberry juice and one 5l bottle of ice tea with no preservatives). I am using Youngs Brew Home Brewing Super Wine Yeast Compound For High Alcohol but I can't find any information on fermentation temperature for this product. Does...

Hi All, I am new member and new to this hobby , I did a search , but there isn't any specific about wine making equipment post. There is whole sub forum for beer making..! Can someone guide me the equipment I will need if I start with 30 bottle ?, I am not keen on plastic fermenter ( all the...

Hi everyone. I am a new member here so this is my first post. I am desperate for answers to what has happened to my plum wine or more specifically, the airlocks. So my plum wine is now ready for bottling and this is the second batch I have made this year, however, I am now possibly at a point...

Hi All, Today I made another brew. Some of you may have seen the metheglin I started not long ago I had some left over spices from that so thought I could use them in an apple wine. The recipe goes as follows -4.5L apple juice (I used store bought apple juice with no additives just the apple...

I’m making 23 litres of wine, and want to mature it for at least a year. Should I bottle the wine or should I decant it into Demojohns and let it mature that way?

Hi all. I have been looking through the wine review section and there are some great reviews but they all seem to be for the more expensive kits, over £50. I am out of work at the mo so times are a bit tight. The only wine kits I’ve made so far are the MYO white and red kits from The Range...

I am looking for a Safetycork, originally produced in the 1970's-80's by E.Sandelands Engineers Plastic Products Address: Crisp Cottage 1 Crow Lane Dalton, Wigan, WN8 7RX They are no longer around, but Hambleton Bard Ltd have used the same name for their bung for demi-johns. The original...

I’ve been reading threads on this forum for years, but only just got round to registering, so hello and all that. Planning on putting some rhubarb wine on in the next couple of days and wondering what yeasts people might recommend. There’s plenty of recipes around here and elsewhere, mostly...

Hi all. First question for your esteemed selves. Aging wine. I know traditionally it is done in wood barrels. However, given I am currently lacking in space and finances for even a 1 litre oak barrel, I was wondering if it was possible to use some of the accelerated aging sometime used in...

Hi all, I have just started brewing some Maple wine (adapted from a basic mead recipe. Maple syrup instead of honey. OG 1.090) Its currently in primary fermentation in a large plastic bucket. My question is: the wine is audibly fizzing, like a can of coke. Is this okay? I have never had a brew...

Hi This is my first post so be gentle. I am also probably commiting sacrilege as I'll boil all the alcohol away Background is that I have been told to go on a low salt diet as I am close to having high blood pressure. If you don't know salt is in every processed food and gravy and stock cubes...

Im in need of A bit of help for my Elderflower Sparkly wine/champagne please. I am about a week into fermenting 23L and I just took a sample, the SG is now at 1010, it tastes lovely and it is still bubbling every 30secs or so. My question is about the carbonation, I want it nice and fizzy so...

Howdy folks, hope everyone is supping well and staying safe. I made a red wine kit a while back and am happy with the 30 bottles I have stored. I actually have a second one of the exact same kit to make ASAP as it is almost at its Best Before date. I don’t have another 30 empty bottles though...

Howdy folks, hope everyone is supping well and staying safe. I have a second 30bottle MYO red wine kit to start to make and because I don’t have another 30 empty bottles I am wanting to have a play about with flavour and rack it into 6 separate demijohns and then bottle later. My question is...

Hi all, I’m a total wine brewing novice and I have my first ever 30 bottle wine kit to bottle up tomorrow, I also scored lucky with an Amazon glitch and got 36 bottles of red for £20, AND I still have another 30 bottle red wine kit to make before it goes out of date in June. I never thought...

Howdy all. I managed to get hold of a white and a red Make your Own brand wine kits and I am looking for any advice to get the best out of these please? I do have a brew fridge set up now to use, but this will be my first ever foray into wine brewing so any advice would be amazing, or should I...

Hello All I will be making wine soon and was wondering does anyone else leave the grapes on the vine? Before you press them. I am just asking as it took me a few days to strip all the grapes off their vines before I pressed it. Plus I have read in various places that the vines add or don't...

Hi. I have been toying with the idea of making wine under pressure in my fermentsaurus. Why? You ask. Well because I've had great result on making beer this way, and the extra heat speeds up the process. The pressure allows me to ferment at higher temps without the biproducts from the yeast...

Raspberry Lowicz (12%) One of the cheapest (Lowicz £1 when on offer at Tesco) yet nicest drinks I've made. Lovely chilled sat in the sun in the back garden. I wouldn't say this tastes like a wine more like a strong still cider and if you used a full bottle of syrup I suspect it would be more...