Introduce Yourselves here

[Bertie]

Hi

Hi,

I am Ashley and I have just found this site after spending months reading winepress.us and winemakers mag. I am really happy as they are so USA based and I am from England (North Kent). I am a 'mature-ish' uni student and have been fermenting stuff for quite a few years now. I started off with cider, apple wine, medler wine, elderflower wine/fizzy (have never used the berrys yet, but we have hundreds of elder bushes where i live) and make lots of fruit spirts (sloe gin etc.). What I have going at the moment: apple port (aging), Mead (aging/clearing), red wine from neighbours grapes (aging).

Anyway I have just planted 27 vines (4x bachus, 4x solaris, 4 x pinotnoir (clone 1804 and 777) and a selection of 4 year old wine vines, trans planted from my neighbour (who has moved).

I would love lots of help and advise and would really like to help people havesting etc (in exchange for stealing their knowledge.....maybe even a buy few grapes to learn with till mine are ready). I would really have liked to have gone to the grapefest but I doubt I will be able to.

Thanks

[goldseal]

Hi Ashley,

Welcome aboard (and make sure you harvest those elderberries and get some Elderberry Port on the go this year )

[lockwood1956]

I would really have liked to have gone to the grapefest but I doubt I will be able to.

you dont need to decide till near the event

we have people travelling up from darn sarf...so maybe you could car share?

regards
bob

[joelw94]

Hi everyone,

my name is Joel, I'm originally from Braintree in Essex but having been living in New Zealand for nearly three years. I got into brewing in October last year when my wife bought me a starter kit for my birthday. I've now brewed 4 beers, and am loving homebrew beer!

I decided to make cider from store bought apple juice a few months ago and bought a some wine equipment. I then discovered this website and thought I'd give some simple winemaking a go. However my plan to make wine number 1 got hijacked by a large bag of free feijoas (a really aromatic fruit from South America that grows well here) and made feijoa wine. This is racked and clearing now and I just got a wine number 1 on the go (grape and apple as per original recipe) to help keep me from drinking the feijoa wine before the end of the year! Also bought the juices for a wine number 2 to start soon. Unfortunately I have limited space as equipment is very expensive here. I also want to try making a nice full bodied red wine kit but finding a good 1 gallon kit here to try it out is impossible, they only stock the 5 gallon kits but I'll keep looking.

Thank you for a great forum and set of tutorials, I'm gonna have lots of fun making wines.

[waggoner]

Hi Joel.

Welcome to the forum..i'm fairly new to wine making myself,,but there's a great bunch of folks here,,so i'm sure your questions will be answered..

[goldseal]

Welcome, Joel.

[lockwood1956]

Welcome aboard Joel

[alan66]

Im back

Hi all, its been a wile since i showed my presence on here. hope all are well...

[lockwood1956]

Hi Alan

welcome back

regards
bob

[alan66]

Hi Alan

welcome back

regards
bob

thanks bob, i hope all is going well, the site looks so much more advanced

[kojak]

Very noob noob

Hiya i am a complete novice at this wine making malarkey and am running on a budget. i currently don't have any demijohns so am gonna use a couple of 5l pet water bottles, going to use water on my Geordie bitter kit have also purchased a wine kit from Wilkinson's young's definitive wine strawberry. i am going to try your wine number 1 tutorial . thing is i never spend more than £5 on a bottle of wine so how will your wines and cheap kit wines compare to budget supermarket wines. thanks for you patience

[lockwood1956]

Wine No1 will be the equivalent (some think better) than your £5 supermarket wine

welcome aboard, and welcome to the wonderful world of wine making

regards
Bob

[kojak]

Very noob noob

Oh BTW I'm not trying to put down more expensive wines its just a matter of costs for me,i cant afford the £10 plus bottles unfortunately. I'm hoping to progress to making better wines and will try and follow the tutorials. Before i found this forum i found this recipe and got ingredients. Wurzels orange wine http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/vi...4ecc99b582b106 so have done this today. will start wine 1 as soon as this is done.

[dpile1]

Hi there,

I've been a member of this forum for quite sometime but haven't posted anything until now. I'm a student teacher whose just moved to Bristol to study. I used to make lots of country wines but have been turned to kits because of their simplicity, speed, reasonable cost and reliable results.

I mainly make California Connoisseur and Beaverdale 6 bottle kits and tend to stick to the Whites and Roses as the Reds sometimes disappoint. I think I must have been through all the the whites and roses that those two kits supply and haven't found one I haven't liked.

I've dabbled in Beer kits too, such as Wherry, and enjoyed the results but I'm more of a wino

Occasionally when the season's right I still like making Elderberry wine, Blackberry wine and Strawberry wine.

This is a great forum full of superb advice and it's an asset to the internet.

Cheers

Darren

[lockwood1956]

welcome welcome welcome all of you

Darren...Try the beaverdale Barolo or Rioja, but dont use the yeast that comes with the kit, replace it with a good quality one (lalvin RC-212 or Gervin No2) and perhaps add approx 50g chopped sultanas (for the 6 bottle kit)

should give you much better results

reghards
Bob