Bubbly

[Piggle]

I'm very very new to brewing. In fact I've not actually drunk anything I've brewed. Still watching and waiting for my first 60 bottles finish. As such you'll gather I know nothing so this is probably going to be a stupid question but...

Can you buy a decent home brew kit for bubbly. My initial thoughts are probably not as I've not seen it discussed on any forum.

Cheers in advance

 

[calumscott]

Probably... I guess you just need one with a similar base and varieties to what goes in the real stuff, then just don't stabilise it and prime it as we do for beer and cider.

Failing that, I put up an Elderflower and Grapefruit recipe a last year and it is seriously good as a fizzy. :thumb:

 

[oldbloke]

It's not a kit, but elderflower 'champagne' is a classic and gets a bit of discussion every year when the flowers are in season.
I don't do kits myself so never looked for a champagne one - possibly it'd be labelled "sparkling wine" or "champagne style" since the word is protected.
But it's really just a particular style of white allowed a carbonation ferment in the bottle - which means using bottles (and closures) that can handle it, and trying all those clever methods of losing the little bit of dead yeast from the bottles without losing all the wine. That bit has been discussed a few times.

 

[Piggle]

Suppose I'd best learn to walk first eh!!

Thanks a million

 

[Brewtrog]

A simple way of doing it would be to put a finished (but not stabilised) white kit into beer bottles with maybe a teaspoon of priming sugar per bottle and leave it for a few weeks, I don;t know how good a bubbly it'd make but it should work in theory.

 

[calumscott]

I don;t know how good a bubbly it'd make but it should work in theory.

I does work in practice! That is how the real stuff is made.

For a champers level of fizz you want 8g/l. :thumb:

 

[Pearlfisher]

I've just started to stop & degas 23L of Kenridge Gewürztraminer , my OH had bought me a couple of Champagne bottles & corks & wires as part of my Xmas present , not sure why? ,so I decided to use them and added 1tsp sugar and capped them with hollow plastic corks which I then wired and inverted the bottles and left to clear.

 

[calumscott]

I've just started to stop & degas 23L of Kenridge Gewürztraminer , my OH had bought me a couple of Champagne bottles & corks & wires as part of my Xmas present , not sure why? ,so I decided to use them and added 1tsp sugar and capped them with hollow plastic corks which I then wired and inverted the bottles and left to clear.

Sorry...? You've stopped it? "Potassium Sorbate and a campden tablet" stopped it?

 

[Pearlfisher]

I've just started to stop & degas 23L of Kenridge Gewürztraminer , my OH had bought me a couple of Champagne bottles & corks & wires as part of my Xmas present , not sure why? ,so I decided to use them and added 1tsp sugar and capped them with hollow plastic corks which I then wired and inverted the bottles and left to clear.

Sorry...? You've stopped it? "Potassium Sorbate and a campden tablet" stopped it?

I should have said I filled 2 bottles before I started to stop & degas.

 

[calumscott]

I've just started to stop & degas 23L of Kenridge Gewürztraminer , my OH had bought me a couple of Champagne bottles & corks & wires as part of my Xmas present , not sure why? ,so I decided to use them and added 1tsp sugar and capped them with hollow plastic corks which I then wired and inverted the bottles and left to clear.

Sorry...? You've stopped it? "Potassium Sorbate and a campden tablet" stopped it?

I should have said I filled 2 bottles before I started to stop & degas.

Thank goodness for that!! You would have had a BIG disappointment! :lol: