had a busy weekend :-) thanks for the recipes, Ribena, wow and supermarket apple

[Steweee]

 

[Chippy_Tea]

What is the one second from left?

 

[Steweee]

second from left is orange & passion fruit juice from sainsburys,on that shelf there is three dj of spicy beetroot, four dj of ribena blackcurrant, one dj orange and two dj of apple & red grape, the beetroot wine was made a few weeks ago and is still working away, I have just put the finings into a cellar 7 peach & mango that i hope to be bottling in a couple of days :-) currently enjoying a cellar 7 sauvignon blanc and a Wilko red that i bottled before Christmass

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Keep an eye on that sometimes ones with orange get very lively and blow out of the airlock.

 

[Steweee]

Thanks for the heads up Chippy, I have just fitted a blow off pipe in a jar, its going realy well :-)

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Better to be safe than sorry, i got a right bollocking off Mrs Tea the first time mine came out of the airlock onto the kitchen worktop i now give orange or similar WOW's a little extra head-space just in case and always use a blow off tube in my 23 litre FV.

 

[Steweee]

They all settled down now and topped up to the mark, I have two 23ltr carbouys, I'm using them for the quick to drink kit wines ( Cellar 7 and Wilco ) I have just started to fill the second shelf in the cupboard with some frozen fruit from Iceland ( red berries 3 gal and pineapple and passion fruit 3 gall ) so another 6 dj on the second shelf with room for another 4 :-) , cant wait for the summer :-)

 

[DoD93]

hey steweee
have you got a recipe for these I'm mainly interested in the spicy beetroot and the ribina brews
cheers in advance for any reply

 

[Taff]

Ditto on the spicy beetroot recipe please!

 

[Flying_Fox]

I’m assuming these are wine? Would like the Ribena Recipe

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I’m assuming these are wine? Would like the Ribena Recipe

Save yourself a load of grief and don't use juice that has preservative Ribena is a PITA it will ferment but very slowly and it will finish early leaving undrinkable wine, I've made it and it was awful (there are several threads about it in the forum)

 

[marshbrewer]

Better to be safe than sorry, i got a right bollocking off Mrs Tea the first time mine came out of the airlock onto the kitchen worktop

About ten years ago, when I first got back into home brewing, I made up some demijohns of wine. One of them had lots of elderberry pulp in it.

Anyway, after I had put them in the spare room, I set off for a weekend away in Nottingham painting the town red. Whilst I was there, I spent an unspeakable amount of money on a Paul Smith shirt to go out boogieing in, proper dandy I looked (I was single at the time. Well, sort of). I arrived home, hungover, back to sunny Lincolnshire and walked into my cottage. I could hear a faint 'sssssssssssssss' sound like gas escaping, but thought nothing of it. One of the demijohns appeared to have stopped fermenting as the airlock showed no activity. Sssssssssssss. So I thought I'd go and have a look. Sssssssssssssssssssss. Interestingly, it also appeared to have overflowed bright pink pulpy yeasty gunk and, sssssssssssssssssssssssssss, filled and blocked the airlock and, sssssssssssss....... BANG! The bung came flying out of the demijohn, spraying bright pink gunk all over my face, the walls, the ceiling and (you've guessed it) my newly ruined bloomin expensive shirt.

Given that the gas had no means of escape, I should really count myself lucky the whole thing didn't explode and kill me with shards of glass.

Still, something to keep an eye on if you get very vigorous fermentation with pulpy juice!