Homemade wine

craftynutters

thanks everyone thats great will start at weekend :j LOOKING FOREWARD TO (sorry it's that word) CHRISTMAS:D

Hapless_2

If you can pick up the winemaking book by C.J.Berry it's a classic

curlywurlygirly

If the idea of making a 'fruit wine' is a bit daunting - test your skills using a kit - you can get some really good 'ceap' ones, and it works out at about 50p a bottle when you've made it - including the necessary sugar!

kethry

Hapless wrote: »

If you can pick up the winemaking book by C.J.Berry it's a classic

Beansprout's blog also rates C.J.Berry's book on winemaking.. she's included a few links on one entry on winemaking (there are a few).

And yes, you can make wine from veg, apparently. And i quote (again, from her blog):

Beansprouts wrote:

"I think my all time top success was a 5 gallon batch of "everything the greengrocer was chucking out on Saturday afternoon", which resulted in a fabulous wine very like a good Cabernet Sauvignon. Sadly I never wrote down the proportions and so the recipe was unrepeatable. But then again Berry advised me to always keep scrupulous records for this very reason, so the fault lies with the student, not the master."

so there we go!

keth
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thriftmonster

CJJ Berry also does a book on winemaking with canned fruit and from experience -this is usually pretty good. I have made peach (value peaches) and fruit cocktail (ditto) and both are good and drinkable in about 3 months, though 6 is better. As far as I remeber it's 3 tins of fruit, 1kg sugar, and 1 tsp of everything else - yeast, nutrient, pectic enzyme, citric acid and tannin. I also made value grapefruit which was much better than you would think - nice and dry.

craftynutters

thanks everyone First batch underway:beer:

GooeyBlob

Here's one really simple recipe I've used hundreds of times and it never goes wrong:

Dissolve a 1 kilo bag of sugar in water, then allow to cool. Pour 1 litre of value orange juice (Netto, Teco, Aldi... the cheap stuff from concentrate is fine) into demi-john, add yeast and 1 tsp of pectolase. Add cooled sugar solution, top up with tap water and leave for 6-8 weeks.

The result should be a very nice white wine that costs next-to-nothing and takes very little time to make.

GooeyBlob

Has anyone else noticed that this year's blackberries are unusually large? It must have been the perfect summer for them.

I've picked loads this year, and have several gallons of blackberry wine fermenting away already. I pick about 3lb of fruit and use 1 kilo of sugar to make a gallon, and this usually makes a nice red wine for about 15p per bottle.

rockie4

I've got loads in the freezer ready for making jam, they are huge this year.*remembering the huge hangover from blackberry wine*

tiff

I would love to make wine, we did once do it from a kit. The 6 bottles turned out fine but we never bothered since. Anyone fancy listing the equipment needed and a beginners guide? I'm more interested in country wines rather than kits.