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Favourite Elderberry Wine Recipe (13% ABV) 22.5L Carboy 5L Red Grape Juice 5Kg Fresh Elderberries or 1Kg Dried & 4.4Kg Sugar GV2 Yeast & Nutrient. Add Late: 2.5Kg Raspberries / Blueberries / Cherries / Forest Fruits 1 US Gallon 830ml Red Grape Juice 830g Fresh Elderberries or...

Versatile Grapple Wine Recipe (11% ABV) I like using grape juice with apple juice. I think the two create a synergy which is better than either a grape juice wine or an apple juice wine alone. Here is a Versatile Recipe which I always stick to when making wine, it gives almost unlimited...

Has anyone else had any issues getting white grape juice in the UK lately? Sainsburys stopped selling it at the beginning of the year, and Asda have just stopped selling it too. I have had a look around all the supermarkets (apart from Netto), and it is only still supplied by Waitrose, where...

Hi Guys, After frustration with a lot of useless recipes which seem to be out there, I have put together a list of recipes, which I like and I believe should be reliable. I have also given the processes I use, and other information I find useful! I have provided a few links to books on Amazon...

Has anyone had any good results with making wine from dried elderberries? I made some once and it came out terribly, then made some with fresh and it was fantastic! It may have been down to me method: I boiler 250g and 1.25Kg sugar in water for a bit, cooled and pulp fermented for 10...

Hi guys, I do love red wine, but at present, it seems like I can only make it at the end of summer when there are black and elder berries on trees. Using frozen fruit turns out so expensive. Has anyone had any success making red wine from juices? I was wondering about 3L red grape juice...

I love the idea of oaking up a red wine with smoked chips. I made a plum wine, which I was planning on coming out as a red, and I added 7g of smoked oak "chips" (although they were more like a dust?). The wine didn't actually come out like a red, and much more like a rose. Unfortunately...

The elderberries are almost now in season, and I managed to buy a cheap 2nd hand steamer juice extractor, which some people swear by. I am just wondering about how good these are compared to just bringing the berries to the boil to kill germs for a second, giving them a quick mash, then...

"Making Award Winning Wines at Home" by Bill Smith is such a great wine making book. I am currently making a gallon of the following base wine, which can then be used to make 6 different wines: Base Wine (Chiltern Masters / Bill Smith) ~15.5% 1.5L White Grape Juice or 368ml White Grape...

So far I have been maturing my wine in 5 litre plastic water bottles. I mentioned this to a wine judge, and he said that the plastic is oxygen permeable and therefore not good for maturing wine in. Surely cork in wine bottles and oak barrels are also oxygen permeable. When opening the plastic...

Ive attached a copy of my country wine recipe designer here. I produced it after looking at recipes from every country wine book I could find, and after fermenting 20 different fruit wines and trialling different blends to establish which seemed to "work" together. It forms a simple guide...

I have just uploaded my favourite wine recipe (and step by step photos of how to make it) to the site, which can be found at https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/demijohn-must-produce-pics-454015/index2.html I have also put it on my own site, which can be viewed at...

Theres now a thread for finished off beautiful bottled wine pics. How about a thread for pics for every other stage of the process. I love seeing the ingredients, the must, the must in primary, discarded pulp, the different stages of secondary, maturing, before finings, after finings...

Are there any brewers from Liverpool on here?! Id love it if there was a wine circle here! Ive started a Facebook page for it too! /www.facebook.com/HomeBrewBottleSwap

I really don't understand why commercial wine (in the main) has to be made from grapes! I live in the UK (where we don't have many vineyards and much wine making), but I have been making rhubarb wine (often with other fruit / juices) added, and they are absolutely great! As we all know here...

I made 4.5L of some really nice apple wine (500g rhubarb, 500ml white grape juice & 3Kg Cox Apples). As I used Cox, the wine is at SG 1.000 but has a really sweet taste. I therefore think that it would be really nice making it into a champagne, but once the fermentation had finished (about a...

Hi guys, Does anyone have any opinion on the Gervin Yeasts for use with wine please as I have just bought a load (as well as a few other brands)?! I asked WineWorks what the quality of Gervin yeast was in comparison to their tubs of general wine purpose yeast as I have just bought a tub...

I haven't yet experimented with the various yeasts on the market. I know many wine makers would say that yeast is the most important ingredient for fermentation, but does it really make that much difference to flavour, especially in wine making?! (I know that certain types will allow a higher...

What are peoples favourite and worst wines they have made / tried! I know this is totally subjective, but I think thee will be quite a few people agree on certain wines! Mine favourites are: Whites: Rhubarb & Grape / Rosehip / Raisin Cranberry & Raisin Champagne Lavender & Orange...

Prosecco (4.5L) 1.5Kg Rhubarb 750ml White Grape Juice 850g Sugar GV3 or Lalvin EC-118 Yeast (Optional 3 large Elderflower heads / 28g dried flowers - One gallon with, one without) Leave for 6 weeks, then: 40g Sugar Bottle for 2 weeks Rhubarb, Cranberry & Red Grape (4.5L - 6 Bottles)...