Have you ever made homebrew?!
Answers: i made supposedly red mine with one of those boots kits it tested like sherry!
I'll never be sure what I produced from fermented gooseberries but a bottle shared with a girlfriend on a picnic put me on another planet, driving back and stuck in heavy traffic she lept from the car to run back to a shop to buy a handag she'd spotted ! The traffic moved on and it took me about an hour to find a place to park,as I could barely stand it took even longer to crawl 3/4 mile back to the bag shop, then identify my wench . Later I had no recollection of where I'd actually parked! The good news is, she bought the bag but sadly the remaining 2gallons of gooseberry wine was lost due to a mysterious explosion in my kitchen cupboard!
P.S. I've still got Granny's receipe for this which dates back to the time when 12 was a ripe old age though now that foxes are protected I doubt you'd be able to recreate the original.
This is often what happens
I used to make lager with the boots kit. i had to give up. Was turning into a bloody alco
I have made beer - ok, technically Ale. It was great - the wine is more difficult to make something good I hear....
Yeah I gave a Boots kit a go.......tasted like turpentine and was flat as a supermodel, but still got you wrecked quickly enough :o
No as you can get a decent bottle of red for under ￡5 and couldn't be bothered with all the faffing about!hehe I quite like a sherry...if it doesn't take up too much time, I might give it a go, as it wouldn't go to waste=]
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never tried wine but im going to try making cider soon :)
Never made wine, but I'm an avid homebrewer of beer. I've got bottles currently of my "Nut King Cole Imperial Chestnut Porter," a 9.1% imperial Porter brewed with brown sugar and 4 lbs of freshly roasted chestnuts. I've also got my "Bada Bing Cherry Weizenbock" in the bottling bucket right now, clarifying before I bottle it - high gravity German dark wheat beer with fresh Bing cherries and orange zest.
Got a vanilla-butterscotch flavored Bitter in my primary as we speak, and a Mountain Dew Saison is up next on the schedule.
I'll be doing wine for the first time this spring, although it will be a dandelion wine to start.
Cheers!
I've got the stuff but never got round to it. Brewing poteen that's an interesting challenge.
Your wine had unfermented sugars in it.
This can be for several reasons:
1: you fermented too hot and the yeast died.
2: you fermented too cold and the yeast stopped
3: you added the stabaliser too early and killed the yeast
4: you added some sugars
Get a hydrometer and use it to judge the alchohol content. Also get a heat tray so you can keep it at a constant 20-25 degrees C
Modern wine kits work very well, don't be put off by this attempt.
Try some kits from a homebrew shop rather than boots.
Some good brands to look out for are Beaverdale, Soloman Grundy and Grande Maison
If you don't have a local shop ( there is one in most large towns ) you can try here:
http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/
I've made beer, wine and liqueurs. Some turn out well, some, not so well. Don't be discouraged. Berry has some decent instruction books on winemaking. Try one of his recipes. I especially like his carrot wine and his lemon wine.
Not yet, but I'm going to!
Did it years ago.
My Uncle had a home brew shop in Motherwell and my speciality was the Ravenscraig lager.
Another drink in Scotland made from girders !