any suggestions?

[Pastor of Muppets]

Well the Cider has been bottled and the garden isnt doing anything overly exciting at the moment and im sat here looking at a row of empty demijohns wondering what i ought to put in to them!!

any and all suggestions greatly appreciated

Cheers
AC

 

[Crastney]

rhubarb? that's about ready now isn't it?

how about making limoncello? (or limecello)

a TC or a WOW are probably doable quite quickly before any fresh fruit in summer, or tree fruit in autumn.

 

[alphacento]

It is also Orange season so you can try to make a Blood Orange Hefeweizen. I know that it is produced somewhere although I do not know if it is any good

 

[oldbloke]

We had a bottle of my Earl Grey wine with Sunday dinner a couple of weeks ago, and immediately thought about making more.
It did take nearly a year to get from "This is OK wine" to "We ought to make more of this" though.

10 Earl Grey teabags and about 1/2lb of chopped raisins into 1.7litres near-boiling water.
Added another 1.7 litres boiling water and stirred in 1kg sugar.
Left to cool.
At 24C, added 2tsp citric, 1tsp nutrient, and packet Young's general red wine yeast.
Made up to a gallon

 

[cf.]

Dandelions are in the fields now so a dandelion wine or even Dandelion and Burdock . Be warned do not mix the Burdock roots with Hemlock or you will be dead within a few hours unless of course your after the inheritance lol .


4 pints dandelion flowers
2 lbs 11 ozs granulated sugar
4 oranges
1 gallon water
yeast and nutrient

 

[oldbloke]

Dandelions are in the fields now so a dandelion wine or even Dandelion and Burdock . Be warned do not mix the Burdock roots with Hemlock or you will be dead within a few hours unless of course your after the inheritance lol .


4 pints dandelion flowers
2 lbs 11 ozs granulated sugar
4 oranges
1 gallon water
yeast and nutrient

I'd double the quantity of dandelion in that.

 

[Pastor of Muppets]

Dandelions are in the fields now so a dandelion wine or even Dandelion and Burdock . Be warned do not mix the Burdock roots with Hemlock or you will be dead within a few hours unless of course your after the inheritance lol .


4 pints dandelion flowers
2 lbs 11 ozs granulated sugar
4 oranges
1 gallon water
yeast and nutrient

I'd double the quantity of dandelion in that.

i thought the dandelions for wine where traditionally picked on st Georges day??

 

[Pastor of Muppets]

so i have six demijohns sitting idle.....or should i say had......
one now contains a simple elderflower using white grape juice concentrate and dried elderflowers boiled up stewed and sugared. on has a ginger "wine" just sitting waiting to get to get going. I nipped into my local homebrew store, Arkwrights in Highworth (I dont know if any of you know this amazing little shop but you really ought to (if nothing else to see a shop the size of a garage with 800 different whiskys whiskeys bourbons and japanese stuff i cant spell as well as a home brew shop (reasonably well stocked) and a small selection tasty treats and fags) the guys there are really friendly and very helpful)) and brought a chardonnay with peach and apricot kit which i thought id give a go as well.
And then things got silly.... on my way to pick up Mrs PoM from work i stopped in at the local M&S and noticed Rhubarb and Custard cordial and thought to myself......"well if you can make wine froom ribena......."
not sure of the process but i have three more demi johns to play with and one spare for racking so what the hey!

:

 

[oldbloke]

[quote="cf.":28dyyixa]Dandelions are in the fields now so a dandelion wine or even Dandelion and Burdock . Be warned do not mix the Burdock roots with Hemlock or you will be dead within a few hours unless of course your after the inheritance lol .
4 pints dandelion flowers
2 lbs 11 ozs granulated sugar
4 oranges
1 gallon water
yeast and nutrient

I'd double the quantity of dandelion in that.

i thought the dandelions for wine where traditionally picked on st Georges day??[/quote:28dyyixa]

True. OTOH, they're barely even poking their heads above ground round here now so may have to wait past that date.

 

[tonyhibbett]

Bit early for rhubarb. May is the best time for it.

 

[cf.]

[quote="cf.":15dzy7gb]Dandelions are in the fields now so a dandelion wine or even Dandelion and Burdock . Be warned do not mix the Burdock roots with Hemlock or you will be dead within a few hours unless of course your after the inheritance lol .


4 pints dandelion flowers
2 lbs 11 ozs granulated sugar
4 oranges
1 gallon water
yeast and nutrient

I'd double the quantity of dandelion in that.

i thought the dandelions for wine where traditionally picked on st Georges day??[/quote:15dzy7gb]

It is but there is loads around here in Devon now all in flower