Homemade wine

Kevie192

Jinny, I would check the temperature of your airing cupboard before you do this. The wine needs to be between 20 and 25ºC for the wine to ferment properly and my guess is that it will be too warm in there.

I use a very simple fridge thermometer to check the temps of my house so I know where's best to ferment

Kevin x

Optimisticpair

I have found this again after a search.

I waited but I haven't been lucky getting any brewing kit from Freecycle and totting up what we spent on OH's wine (which is one of his few treats for being Frugal) I can see I should have thrown caution to the wind and just invested the money on a bin and demijohns etc. instead.

Austin Allegro - Thanks, and that herbal teabag wine recipe sounds very interesting.

New wine-making question - Could I freeze or dry elderflower heads?

jinny

Help! making some wine in a demi-john from a kit and its started to foam up in the air bung should i take some out?

Norman_Bean

jinny wrote: »

Help! making some wine in a demi-john from a kit and its started to foam up in the air bung should i take some out?

yes I would x which kit are you doing?

Just picked some redcurrants from the garden so going to have a go at redcurrant wine - anyone had any success with this? need a recipe too as Molly hasn't got one :eek:

Norm x

jinny

Norman_Bean wrote: »

yes I would x which kit are you doing?

Just picked some redcurrants from the garden so going to have a go at redcurrant wine - anyone had any success with this? need a recipe too as Molly hasn't got one :eek:

Norm x[/QUOTE
Its youngs definitive red from wilkinsons I have taken the air lock out and rinsed it out and it seems ok now but i think i did overfill the jar a bit

jinny

Where would you fill the demi jar upto. Is it up to the bottle neck base or below that just above the shoulders? thanks

jinny

http://www.zen37219.zen.co.uk/recipes.htm#Redcurrant_Wine
found this hope it is useful

Sunnyday

jinny wrote: »

Help! making some wine in a demi-john from a kit and its started to foam up in the air bung should i take some out?

I came home earlier to find what i thought was a spent shotgun cartridge in the living room, i thought that the dog had found it and fetched it in but its actually turned out to be the top of an airlock

My experimental coffee wine (supposed to be like tia maria) has gone all over the place I`ve poured about half a pint away after trying to scoop out the froth a couple of times and it still wasn`t enough.

That demijohn is now standing in an old washing up bowl in case it happens again.

Normanbean - I`ve got Mollys blackcurrant wine bubbling away atm, you could use the same recipe for the redcurrants. I`m starting to do that a lot with different fruit, the plum wine is still at the bucket stage

SD

jinny

Sunnyday wrote: »

I came home earlier to find what i thought was a spent shotgun cartridge in the living room, i thought that the dog had found it and fetched it in but its actually turned out to be the top of an airlock

My experimental coffee wine (supposed to be like tia maria) has gone all over the place I`ve poured about half a pint away after trying to scoop out the froth a couple of times and it still wasn`t enough.



SD

Oh dear what a shock, this wine making is certainly potentially a messy hobby then. I read somewhere else that a lady came into her kitchen one morning to find the "red wine" had splattered all over the place and it looked like an abatoir!:eek:
I'm not put off tho im really getting into this facinating hobby

Sunnyday

It`s not put me off either

It`s done it again :rotfl:

I`m going to put a cloth over the airlock this time so at least i won`t have to search for it.

SD