Hi all,
I've been homebrewing sporadically since I was a student in Edinburgh some 40 odd years ago. Mainly small beers and, through C J Berry's beautiful little paperback, the odd quirky brews based on blue raisins, blackcurrants and rice, with the occasional diuretic from rhubarb, and one disaster based on pea pods.
Now in Dundee I was alarmed to find that the nearest personal stockist (as opposed to on-line) was now Glasgow, since the Forfar Home Brew place closed down suddenly a year or two ago.
I have a lovely black grape, a Traube variety, now 20 years old, in a tiny 6x4 greenhouse. It produces about three gallons of juice in a good year, (less if the "noble rot" hits it, and have been battling with stuck fermentation and cloudiness for three years now. I use the old Boots metal white wine press, but have had to adapt it with a wooden disc to supplement the metal one which seems to contantly tilt over to one side and then jam.
Any advice would help. The fermentation seems to stop for a while then start again. Once I thought it had finally stopped this time I tried using Bentonite to clear it and it worked for a while then the fermentation started again and undid the clearing.
Tony McLean
I've been homebrewing sporadically since I was a student in Edinburgh some 40 odd years ago. Mainly small beers and, through C J Berry's beautiful little paperback, the odd quirky brews based on blue raisins, blackcurrants and rice, with the occasional diuretic from rhubarb, and one disaster based on pea pods.
Now in Dundee I was alarmed to find that the nearest personal stockist (as opposed to on-line) was now Glasgow, since the Forfar Home Brew place closed down suddenly a year or two ago.
I have a lovely black grape, a Traube variety, now 20 years old, in a tiny 6x4 greenhouse. It produces about three gallons of juice in a good year, (less if the "noble rot" hits it, and have been battling with stuck fermentation and cloudiness for three years now. I use the old Boots metal white wine press, but have had to adapt it with a wooden disc to supplement the metal one which seems to contantly tilt over to one side and then jam.
Any advice would help. The fermentation seems to stop for a while then start again. Once I thought it had finally stopped this time I tried using Bentonite to clear it and it worked for a while then the fermentation started again and undid the clearing.
Tony McLean
