Introduce Yourselves here

[NorthernWiner]

Welcome bugle!

[lockwood1956]

Hi there Bugle
glad to have you on board, where are you located?

regards
Bob

[Mamgiowl]

Good to meet you, bugle, glad we've been of some help.

I haven't made that particular wine but if you follow the general fruit juice recipes you won't go far wrong.

[bugle]

Hello all!

Hello every one, just a quick note to introduce myself. New member to the forum, been brewing for a short time (kits), I'm about to get a supermarket juice on the go... I seem to remember seeing somewhere that tescos apple and elderflower was a good one, has any one tried this/got a recipe?

Matureing youngs definative peach wine
Conditioning muntons larger
drinking brew buddy cider

Cheers all, good forum, been alot of help for me!!

[Hippie]

Totally freaking awesome dude!

I reckon I am just so used to checking the box after cleanups and such, I had taken it for granted!

Shoulda known it was something simple when I was looking for technical stuff!

[lockwood1956]

YAY!

Result

[curlyk]

Hi Bob,

Yes, I spotted that check box a couple of hours ago, so I checked it, and I still seem to be logged in, so problem sorted!

Keith :-)

[lockwood1956]

Hi Keith
I suspect the problem may be a cookie problem, when you log in click the little box that says "remember me"
If you dont have that box ticked, your log in details will time out, and when you try to type something, it sees you as a guest and asks you to log in again

I think this may well be the cause of your problem, polease try it and see if it works.

Do you have cookies enabled on your machine?
regards
Bob

[Hippie]

Hi everyone, thanks for the welcome!

Mamgiowl - fantastic idea - could you include a jar of Bovril and some teabags please? Ta.

Bob - www.hbs24.de, They seem to have an actual physical shop:

HBS24
Bahnhofstrasse 10
Warmsen - Bohnhorst
Deutschland
D-31606

That's in Niedersachsen.

Danina - I'll have to check out exactly where Kitzingen is, but Würzburg isn't a million miles away. Do you have a name/address for the company? Are you in Germany too?

I do not know of any winemaking clubs or competitions. To be honest, before I met my girlfriend, whose brother makes a bit of wine, I thought I was the only one who did it. Most Germans I spoke to 15 years ago on one of my first trips here couldn't seem get their heads around the idea of non-grape wines. It seems to be a bit more common now - at least they don't recoil in horror when I mention it

That link look interesting - thanks!

DAW - Although I forgot to mention it, I do have a blackberry and pear wine in storage, the mixture taken from advice on another forum due to it being easier to clear than pure pear.

As to clearing - the blackberry and pear cleared fine, as did the mango and the peach melba. I have been hitting my wines with a mixture of pectolase and Kwik Clear (the two bottles marked A and B), and everything drops out in a day or two. I should try to exercise more patience, and let them clear on their own, but I am limited with the amount of DJs available to me for fermentation, so I'm usually quite keen to get them into storage as soon as practical (ie brightly see-through, so I know most of the cr@p's out).

The only wines that didn't respond to the above treatment cleared with either amylase or bentonite.

Cheers,

Keith :-)

PS Does anyone else have trouble with their login constantly timing out after about 30 seconds, and always having to log in again? Is there a setting somewhere I can set to stop that?

Sounds very irritating. I will look into it.

[medpretzel]

http://www.diedeutscheindustrie.de/cl/sid.php?PHPSESSID=556bin5a00qv0ne7kfgabh2l75cscpka&f_lang=deu

Paul Arauner has his own shop (in Kitzingen)

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=Frankfurt&daddr=Kitzingen&sll=53.76434,9.656296&sspn=0.09315,0.2314&ie=UTF8&z=9&om=1

1.5 hours...

[curlyk]

Hi everyone, thanks for the welcome!

Mamgiowl - fantastic idea - could you include a jar of Bovril and some teabags please? Ta.

Bob - www.hbs24.de, They seem to have an actual physical shop:

HBS24
Bahnhofstrasse 10
Warmsen - Bohnhorst
Deutschland
D-31606

That's in Niedersachsen.

Danina - I'll have to check out exactly where Kitzingen is, but Würzburg isn't a million miles away. Do you have a name/address for the company? Are you in Germany too?

I do not know of any winemaking clubs or competitions. To be honest, before I met my girlfriend, whose brother makes a bit of wine, I thought I was the only one who did it. Most Germans I spoke to 15 years ago on one of my first trips here couldn't seem get their heads around the idea of non-grape wines. It seems to be a bit more common now - at least they don't recoil in horror when I mention it

That link look interesting - thanks!

DAW - Although I forgot to mention it, I do have a blackberry and pear wine in storage, the mixture taken from advice on another forum due to it being easier to clear than pure pear.

As to clearing - the blackberry and pear cleared fine, as did the mango and the peach melba. I have been hitting my wines with a mixture of pectolase and Kwik Clear (the two bottles marked A and B), and everything drops out in a day or two. I should try to exercise more patience, and let them clear on their own, but I am limited with the amount of DJs available to me for fermentation, so I'm usually quite keen to get them into storage as soon as practical (ie brightly see-through, so I know most of the cr@p's out).

The only wines that didn't respond to the above treatment cleared with either amylase or bentonite.

Cheers,

Keith :-)

PS Does anyone else have trouble with their login constantly timing out after about 30 seconds, and always having to log in again? Is there a setting somewhere I can set to stop that?

[StockeyDAW]

So, what's on the go? In the cellar busy maturing there's strawberry, blackberry wine, blackberry melomel, blueberry, elderberry and bean (from CJJ Berry), Mango, Peach Melba (my own recipe, peach and raspberry - if any good, I'll post it), some sort of port, elderflower, apricot and a few kits (not very good). Bubbling away in the lab, err kitchen: more blackberry wine, a blackberry port, 2 mixed fruit melomels, peach and ginger melomel, a straight mead, an experiment in chocolate mint wine (!) and a partridge in a pear tree.


Hi Keith welcome to the forum. noted you have also some mango, peach and pear? Have you worked out the secrets yet to get these to clear? Cheers DAW

[medpretzel]

Kitzingen has a place too. South of Wuerzburg. There is one in Bremen, an I believe there are some more places closer to Wuerzburg.

Are there winemaking clubs in Germany? There's also the Fruchtweinkeller online: http://www.razyboard.com/system/user...einkeller.html What about competitions for home winemakers? I've been searching but haven't found any.

Welcome aboard! Your first duty? Make some wine!

Dani

[Duffbeer]

Welcome aboard me hearty

[Richard S]

Hi Keith, welcome to the pleasure dome. Hope you manage to find a more local supplier.