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4 gallon base on the go for adding elderflowers to later - they're out and smell great, just need the right weather for gathering.
bottling rose petal
drinking green tea & ginger
To most people solutions mean answers. To chemists solutions are things that are mixed up.
A fine wine is a fine wine, 1st time may be by accident, 2nd time is by design - that's why you keep notes.
Plenty of that going on tonight. Thanks to this forum (and David, and Komber for the review) I seem to be now own a Lidl 27l boiler and a cool box to add a tap too. So, In my 'I've tasted too much' state I've been reading the all grain tutorials whilst trying to work out what else I need to get.
Most annoying bit is finding a 26litre cool box in Costco tonight with a tap on the bottom of it, although it needed holding in to pour, so not so useful.
sorted a selection of requested wines for my Sis to take with her after her visit. Elderflower, Pomegranate WN1, Green Tea & Ginger (personal bottle not for sharing!) and Tanglefoot (likewise not for sharing!) which leads me to ...
not the beer, but the wine. if you care about such things then some poking about famous search engines will reveal that long before a beer called tanglefoot was on everyone's tongues there was a traditional english wine of the same name. i forget which county/region but it was a southern one. It has, sadly, got an undeserved rep, which stopped me from making it for years. But this gets as many "wow's" as green tea & ginger gets. It doesn't get passed around as often tho because it's much more laborious to make, and in our house it's a firm favourite. Fiddley yes, hard to get right yes, unappealing ingredients yes. But crack it and the delight you'll get from witnessing reactions is like no other homebrew (imho).
i wouldn't blame anyone for giving up on trying tho, you'll probably have many near misses and big misses too. I was happy with the result i got from the linked recipe, but i have since tweaked it (only slightly) and now i have the recipe that i won't tweak again.
Should you give it a go the best advice i can give is be oh so careful with how you treat those roots. everything else is standard wine-making with additions/proportions to your tastes. Leave out the 'snips and you'll have a much easier wine to make, that'll be good too, but keep them in and it's a worthwhile and rewarding challenge if you have the time.
To most people solutions mean answers. To chemists solutions are things that are mixed up.
A fine wine is a fine wine, 1st time may be by accident, 2nd time is by design - that's why you keep notes.
Thanks ms67, I do grow parsnips, but I like mine roasted or as crisps. I don't know if I am ready to make it into wine just yet. Maybe next year or, if I happen upon lots of cheap parsnips.....
Thanks ms67, I do grow parsnips, but I like mine roasted or as crisps. I don't know if I am ready to make it into wine just yet. Maybe next year or, if I happen upon lots of cheap parsnips.....
Thanks for the link - appreciated.
YW; i roast them after making a brew with them.
parsnip chips mmmmm the business
To most people solutions mean answers. To chemists solutions are things that are mixed up.
A fine wine is a fine wine, 1st time may be by accident, 2nd time is by design - that's why you keep notes.
Been a busy day, up a 5am drove to 160 miles to Hampshire, visited my mum, spied some nice elderflowers and grabbed some (wow, Hampshire is just like elderflower central right now). Jumped in the car and drove 160 miles back. Nice cup of tea, some dinner, few glasses of plan de dieu and just been catching up:
Stabilised beaverdale kit
Did first racking on wine #1 - sneaked a glug (lovely)
Stirred up my sloe wine (from last years frozen)
Now adding elderflowers to my first wine #1 variation (batch 2)
Picked a heap of elderflowers, pollen all over our hands, wonderful smell in the car now.
To most people solutions mean answers. To chemists solutions are things that are mixed up.
A fine wine is a fine wine, 1st time may be by accident, 2nd time is by design - that's why you keep notes.
processed all the elderflower sprays, ended up with 5 litres of flowers. So I have 2 very different Elderflower wines on the go (different juices, OGs, acids, yeasts, flower addition timings and one with tannin). So no easy comparisons. Batch 1; 5 gallons. Batch 2; 3 gallons. Still plenty flowers out there so i reckon i'll do another 2-3 gallon brew yet.
To most people solutions mean answers. To chemists solutions are things that are mixed up.
A fine wine is a fine wine, 1st time may be by accident, 2nd time is by design - that's why you keep notes.
A bit grumpy today - last Thursday my elderflowers hadn't quite flowered. Got back after a week away and the flowers had come and gone . I'll have to get my boots on tomorrow and go searching.
Apart from that, just an SG check or two today.
Pete the Instructor
It looks like Phil Donahue throwing up into a tuba
A bit grumpy today - last Thursday my elderflowers hadn't quite flowered. Got back after a week away and the flowers had come and gone . I'll have to get my boots on tomorrow and go searching.
Apart from that, just an SG check or two today.
Are you sure your tea consumption is tip top Pete ??
There are loads and loads of elderflowers here...
But I'm affraid I can't get my head into flowery things
Anyway, filtered my pineapple number one wine...
One of the sister in laws was here at the time, and went away with a bottle, so no doubt the rest of the family will turn up, soon, for some.
They all love it.... I can't keep up with them, almost
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