THBF World Cup Sweepstake

[Cussword]

Snail's Tropical Juice Wurzel

The smell was tropical, it was very dry with just a faint fruity taste, (perfect, to my mind :thumb: ), & it didn't last very long at all. I have to confess that the full glass was mine as Mrs C likes to put soda water :sick: in hers.

A cracking wine Mick, cheers

 

[snail59]

Pleased you & Mrs C enjoyed it. Thanks for the good review :thumb:

 

[Cussword]

Samarith's Fiery Ginger Wine

The smell was similar to a St*nes ginger wine but, on tasting had a very strong, hot ginger beer taste, but vinous (is that the right word? I mean winey).
Room temp, are you reading this Aleman? it was great, Chilled, it was really great. Mrs C said she would like it with ice.
I'll be having a wee drop more tonight. :thumb:

Cheers Chris

 

[Grasshopper]

Keep up the tasting and then we can all try making new wines / beers on your results :thumb:

If Samarith's reading this can i have the recipe plz :

Ade

 

[Samarith]

Its based on this recipe to give credit were due.

http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=5982

I picked up the 1kg bag of sugar next to the 500g one by mistake and didn't catch it until 2 second after I'd dumped the whole bag into the pan.

To make 1 gallon I used:

300g Fresh Grated Ginger
1 tsp Dried Ground Ginger
1/5 tsp Cream of Tartar
1/2 lemon
1/2 lime
1kg Demerara Sugar
2/5 tsp yeast nutrient
Champagne Yeast


Place grated and powdered ginger, sliced lemon and lime, cream of tartar into a pan with 3 pints of boiling water.

Simmer for 30 mins then add sugar and disolve. The smell is fantastic.

Cool and transfer it all into the FV and add another 3 pints of cold water.

Add nutrient and yeast.

Stir to get some air in and let it ferment for 5 days.

Strain off the pulp and transfer to a DJ, topping up with water.

I reracked after 2 weeks topping up with sugar syrup (1oz sugar per 1/4 pint).

Ferment out.

I stabilised and fined but it didn't fully clear until I filtered it.



2 months on I'm noticing a white deposit in the bottles which is probably tartaric acid. Had this before with ginger based wines, should be easy enough to decant it off though next time I will bulk mature a few months before bottling.

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Kin-hell Toni, hows your liver? :hmm: has it been naughty, are you punishing it??

Glad I didn't win, I'd be dead by now...lol :shock:

BB

 

[Aleman]

You should have seen the size of the 'bottle' I passed him :lol:

 

[Samarith]

Bottle?

I saw Cussword getting glasses filled with lovely looking beers and I saw shiny filled with beer but I did not see any bottle.

 

[Cussword]

:rofl: :drunk: :drunk:

 

[Cussword]

Alemans Effin Pilsner.


Well, first of all I received this in a corny. I did buy the corny

The colour speaks for itself. It's very clear, has a smell that forces you to drink, &, ok you were right Tony, it tastes better at cellar temp than chilled. I have to say probably one of the best lagers I've ever tasted.. :thumb: :clap: (no, not that one) :lol:

Thanks Tony

Now can anyone tell me when the next local meeting of AA is. :drunk:

 

[Tony]

What a fantastic pic, you look like a proud father!


Gotta love that spill down the front of that (great) tee shirt!

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

What a fantastic pic, you look like a proud father!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

[rickthebrew]

still wishing i`d won :lol:

 

[Cussword]

What a fantastic pic, you look like a proud father!


Gotta love that spill down the front of that (great) tee shirt!

I'd like to say that, SWMBO was taking far too long checking the focus etcetera, but no, it's me, I'm old, I dribble, DOH!!

 

[Sean_Mc]

Looks a cracking brew, nice bit of shiny in hand and I do like that T-shirt :lol:

 

[Aleman]

:cry: :cry: My Baby :cry: :cry: All grown up and off to pastures new :cry: :cry:

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

:cry: :cry: My Baby :cry: :cry: All grown up and off to pastures new :cry: :cry:

Must have been hard for you Aleman, It'll get easier.

BB

 

[Cussword]

:cry: :cry: My Baby :cry: :cry: All grown up and off to pastures new :cry: :cry:

I don't know if he means the corny or the beer :lol:

 

[Samarith]

Hmm, in light of this picture I am changing the warboard setting back to hate.

 

[Cussword]

:rofl: