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Beginners thread, build your skills over a series of wines, a step by step guide, to better winemaking
My first try at wine making is a California Connoisseur 6 bottle kit that has now been bubbling away quite happily for the last few weeks and is almost done.
The black treacle, raisin and demerara sugar wine has now slowed and is nearly complete, will check the SG when I rack it next.
The blackberry has now stopped all signs of fermentation so tonight's job is to rack it and stabilise it as long as the hydrometer tells me it's done, otherwise I will be back on asking questions about how to get it finished!
The apple is still slowly making it's way down the scale and the apple and blackberry is still going strong bubbling away.
I got given a bag of apples at work last week and that came out at about 3 litres of juice once pulped and put through my straining bags. I added a little sugar solution bring up the SG a little and started that off last night with the yeast with an aim to have a 6% cider in couple of weeks. I am hoping to see some action in there when I get home tonight.
Sieved 1 gallon Gooseberry (recipe origin unknown)
Sieved 2 gallons Lychee (thanks for the tip)
Racked 1 gallon Ribena (recipe courtesy 0f CJJB)
Filtered 1 gallon Peach (recipe coutesy of CJJB)
Put two part finings in 2 gallons dried Elderberry and Dried Bilberry (recipe an amalgamation from various sources)
Drinking a rather nice Blackcurrant (my own recipe)
Bottling 2 gallons of quickie Elderflower wine, slightly different but only in a single aspect. Love my comparative brews.
Bottling 1 gallon of Blueberry and Cranberry quickie too.
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.
Got 27(ish) litres out of 5 boxes(!) and about 2 L of sediment. Didn't really have to sqeeze them much either. Didn't other doing a first running though.
Utterly fantastic batch of grapes. Many thanks to Rich for letting me use his Grape Press.
Also racked 2 Gallons of 'Elderberry Disaster Juice' which I cobbled together as the Elderberries were gettin a bit lively on onday due to my poor handling.
Dutch Gunderson: Who are you and how did you get in here?
Frank Drebin: I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith. -Police Squad
Just racked the Merlot of the sludge. Then I weighed the 'Fermentation Vessel' (because calling it a fuel can would lower the tone) and the results are in.
Fuel can = 500g
Merlot + Fuel can =27900g
Merlot = 27400g
Merloy SG= 1.000 (ish)
Merlot Volume - 27.4L
Merlot Volume for the elderly - 6.02 Gallons.
And there is still some more in a DJ to be racked of the remaining sludge.
I'd be intersted to see how it compares with everyone elses results. Especially those who wern't able to blag some Trenolin Rouge from Rich
Dutch Gunderson: Who are you and how did you get in here?
Frank Drebin: I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith. -Police Squad
I think my reds are going to be ready for racking Mon/Tue/Wed. Problem is, I'm away Tuesday! I need to decide when to start the starters for the 2nd runs (I'm using K1V in an attempt to overpower the yeasts in the grape skins) - actually not so much starters, more like 'most of the wine'.
Pete the Instructor
It looks like Phil Donahue throwing up into a tuba
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