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jema
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 05 12:29 pm    Post subject: 150 green bottles Reply with quote
    

150 green bottles sitting in the wine cellar

and if one green bottle were to be accidently drunk,

there would still be 149 green bottles sitting in the cellar

jema

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 05 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

what are all the flavours then.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 05 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

alison wrote:
what are all the flavours then.


So far Shiraz, Chardonet, Elderberry, Vieux Chateau Du Roi, Cabernet Soavignon, plus some bought wine.

I have another 90 odd bottles of various on the go.

When I started brewing again I decided I wanted to hit the 150 bottle level, at which point I think a core cellar is there and I can get more experimental. Some Carrot whiskey is going on today

Hence a lot of the bottled wine is beaverdale wine kits, rather than Country wines.

jema

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 05 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Will you be putting some country wines down this year.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 05 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

alison wrote:
Will you be putting some country wines down this year.


Put on 3 gallons of Carrot Whiskey today

jema

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 05 7:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Lundy's dad used to make a lot of carrot whiskey - if my memory serves me right I've drank it once - that night's a blur!!!!

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 05 7:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Gertie wrote:
Lundy's dad used to make a lot of carrot whiskey - if my memory serves me right I've drank it once - that night's a blur!!!!


It's meant to be a 2 year mature to get to the drinkable stage! hence the desire to lay down drinkable stock in the short term.

jema

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 05 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Fourty bottles of assorted coloured bottles sitting under the stairs...

And another sixty-ish bottles worth sitting in demi-jons at various stages of development...

Jema, don't you find it easier to store some of that wine in bulk than to bottle it all?

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 05 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Cab wrote:
Fourty bottles of assorted coloured bottles sitting under the stairs...

And another sixty-ish bottles worth sitting in demi-jons at various stages of development...

Jema, don't you find it easier to store some of that wine in bulk than to bottle it all?


I have started farming out storage to my parents garage. I have not hit the limit here, unless I think of somewhere else to stash it.

Not sure on how to bulk store really. Would say demi-jons really save that much space?

jema

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 05 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

jema wrote:

I have started farming out storage to my parents garage. I have not hit the limit here, unless I think of somewhere else to stash it.

Not sure on how to bulk store really. Would say demi-jons really save that much space?


You get a different sort of ageing in bulk. I like to give a 'finished' wine at least three or four months in the demijon before bottling, it seems to mellow the wine out nicely, and it means that any further sediment (there is ALWAYS more to sediment out) can be lost that way. At this time of year I take advantage of the cold weather to put a 'finished' wine, still in the demi-jon, into the coldest part of the house to make it sediment faster (a lot of the harsher acids simply crash out if you do that - not a problem with most wines, but a lot of fruit wines do benefit from it).

But in terms of the space saving, a demi-jon can be bunged on any shelf, in any cupboard, and it seems to save a lot of space over six individual bottles. I bottle when I think I might need some more wine in a month or two.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 05 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hi Jema, where can i find a recipie for carrot whisky ?
Thanks, Dave.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 05 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I used Lowlanders from river cottage:

Quote:


6 lb carrots
1 gallon water
2 oranges
2 lemons
4lb sugar
12 oz raisins or sultanas, chopped
1 lb clean wheat
yeast


Wash carrots, but do not peel, boil them in the water until tender. slice the oranges and lemons into a large bowl or similar and strain on the carrot liquid. Add sugar, stir to dissolve; cool to blood heat, add pre-activated yeast, raisins and wheat. Cover and leave to ferment 12 - 15 days. Skim, syphon into demi-john. Ferment out, then bottle. Best if left at least two years.



More a matter of straining into the fermenter in my view.

I also fancy that this won't be best straight to bottle.

jema

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 05 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thanks for that !...........knew i'd seen the recipie somewhere, kept looking on here
Must be an age thing.........
Dave.
err, dont know where i left my car keys by any chance ? LOL

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 05 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Blacksmith wrote:

err, dont know where i left my car keys by any chance ? LOL


try the fruit bowl!!

I've got one demi-john of tea-wine racked off being a home brew newbie - so what should I try next?

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 07, 05 6:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Fiddlesticks Julie wrote:
Blacksmith wrote:

err, dont know where i left my car keys by any chance ? LOL


try the fruit bowl!!

I've got one demi-john of tea-wine racked off being a home brew newbie - so what should I try next?


Some of the most awful wine I have ever made was tea wine

What do you fancy really? I have gone for the Carrot Whiskey, as it is a good seaonsal one to try now I do not have to worry about getting anythign drinkable fast. It also sounds a fun one.

My dried elderberry is hopefully what you might call a reliable "stock" wine.

The orange blossom is a dead cheapy so what the harm in trying...

jema

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