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just started 1 gallon of cherry and cinnamon tea
going to add some marmite and vits to see if this one will be any quicker than my last one

1 gallon of orange
1 gallon of red citrus tea
2 gallon of plum and blackberry


clearing 1 gallon of apple and 1 gallon of mixed fruit juice

just bottled up a few from summer
apircot, plum, rose, cherry, strawberry and very inpressed with my self as all taste pretty ok
not bad for my first lot of wine making
so had a few empty demi johns
so had a clear out of my freezer
so put
yellow cherry plum
apircot
green gage
and freezer bottom wine sloes, huckleberry, and blackberry
all bubbling away nicely
just hope as good as summer lot

I was plannng to rack of the Merlot today, but it looks like I will be fixing the weather station - again :-(

bottled 1 gallon of orange today and enough left for a taste yum yum
racked 1 gallon of mixed fruit

Two more gallons of ASDA orange,peach & passion fruit juice wine
it's fermenting all ready

spice plum
hoping that be good for next christmas

One gallon of fruit teabag, but this time with a litre of supermarket grape juice thrown in as well, which may or may not turn it into something a little better.
One gallon of supermarket apple juice wine (not merely supermarket, but past-its-sell-by-date apple juice at a pound for 5 litres). We'll see.
One high-content peach and grape with an overload of sugar in an attempt to approach a strong, sweet wine.

Oh, and all with the Vit. B1 overdose.

Mike

How many gallons of wine is everyone brewing per week? I am aiming at a gallon a week! Is this excessive? pbf.

prison break fan wrote:How many gallons of wine is everyone brewing per week? I am aiming at a gallon a week! Is this excessive? pbf.

Not at all. Drinking a gallon a week is what does the damage

Mike

EDIT: But seriously, I don't think (along with the entire French nation) that a bottle a day is excessive. Some people, though, would be scandalised.

Mike, I'm certainly not scandalised, but I do share the bottle with my daughter! pbf.

I assumed that, pbf. And I share my bottle with any wine drinker who happens to be around when I open it.

We get very few visitors these days. Shame.

Mike

MKG wrote:One gallon of fruit teabag, but this time with a litre of supermarket grape juice thrown in as well, which may or may not turn it into something a little better.
One gallon of supermarket apple juice wine (not merely supermarket, but past-its-sell-by-date apple juice at a pound for 5 litres). We'll see.
One high-content peach and grape with an overload of sugar in an attempt to approach a strong, sweet wine.

Oh, and all with the Vit. B1 overdose.

Mike

Mike,
I've a batch of Cranberry & Raspberry juice wine on the go. Got 4 litres from the daughter-in-law. It's dated BBE May 08
I'm trying it using a no sugar recipe, starting off with 2 litres and yeast, then, when bubbling slows, add another litre then same again.
It's now had the last litre added and is still going like wildfire
Quite what it'll turn out like, who knows

Barry.

We've got orange on the go and I just put parsnip wine in the demi-john today. Got a long list of more to make

bottled up me crab apple today
tasting very very good

Penny Lane wrote:We've got orange on the go and I just put parsnip wine in the demi-john today. Got a long list of more to make

Gosh, that reminds me....MANY, MANY years ago I did a wine using parsnips and (orange)??? It's name was Westcott Schnapps I think. It had a HELLUVA punch.
Anyone got any recollections or ideas as to a recipe??
I've a load of softening parsnips just crying out to be used!!
Barry.