Sunday lunch veggy wine

[Nicks90]

We all know what it's like, those last couple of carrots,parsnips, potatoes, peas etc etc etc that you find past their best in the veggy bag that end up getting chucked on the compost.
As I've got a bit of a thing with experimenting, is there any mileage in chucking all these odds and ends in the freezer and when there's about 2lb of random veg, chop it up and drop it in 4l boiling water and soak overnight. Next day add a kilo of sugar, some pectalose and wine yeast and Chuck it in a DJ for a year?

I've tasted parsnip wine, potato wine and they were lush, but could I possibly get a good result with utterly random mixed Sunday lunch veggies?
In fact, let's not limit it to Sunday lunch veggies - what about tomatoes, celery, cucumber and all the other odds and sods of the organics that end up in the compost? Can my AJ's be the new compost bin?

 

[ElvisIsBeer]

:sad1:

give it a go

 

[marshbrewer]

Mmmm... I'd freeze them, then make them into stock (you could keep the animal remains of the Sunday lunch in the freezer for this purpose also).

Then spend the hundreds of thousands of pounds* you save on buying Oxo cubes on ingredients more likely to make good wine?

* this is an estimated amount that may be useful in convincing your significant other that you have spare cash to spend on brewing. It is not intended as a legally binding estimate of the cash you will save. E&OE. etc etc :Cheers:

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Members have made tomato wine and Brussel sprouts wine in the past I think this may be pushing it too far. :unsure:

 

[Ken L]

Sounds like a waste o perfectly good sugar to me.
I've done everything from parsnip to marrow in the past and to be honest, I'm in no rush to bother trying again.

 

[jojorose]

Ive got a wine recipe for kitchen wine from Peggy Hutchinson's book (a hundred years ago). Theres a recipe for Tomato wine which somehow just doesnt appeal. Ive just fermented a potatoe wine. We will see.

She made wine from almost everything. Its an interesting read because some of the things she had easy access to then we now dont. i.e. cowslips. What about Mangold Wurzel wine????? Coltsfoot Wine!