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gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 07 11:39 pm Post subject: What's brewing at yours ?
I've just started 1 gall Broom Flower champagne In fermentation 2 galls plum (ex freezer) 2 more galls nettle champagne Racking/maturing : 2.5 galls gorse flower 6 galls damson/sloe mix 1 gall Quince ('Lite' - second run) 1 gall Nettle champagne 2 galls Birch Sap Just bottled 2 galls rosehip 1 gall ginger (dry)

Sarah D

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 2584

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 07 7:11 am Post subject:
3 gallons of elderflower in the demi-johns 1 gallon pink flowered elderflower 1 gallon elderflower champagne 1 gallon of pea pod to go into demi-john today 1 gallon of rose petal ditto 1 gallon of grapefruit bbbling nicely 5 gallons of cranberry ditto 1 gallon of beer just bottled, more in the bucket today, I hope

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 07 7:35 am Post subject:
2 gals rhubarb 2 gals elderberry, blackberry, & raisin 2 gals elderberry and blackberry 1 gal tea wine 1 gal pot luck (dregs from rhubarb and elderberry mixed up with some grape juice) Would like to start off more but I've no further room on the worktop photo taken a couple of weeks ago when some of the demijohns were a bit over active

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 07 9:21 am Post subject:
absolutly nothing because I still forgot to defrost the rowan berries I have in the freezer... I meant to do that months ago

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11405

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 07 10:37 am Post subject:
Only 3 galls of elderflower (clearing) and two galls of blueberry (long steady fermentation been going on for weeks now). I need more demi johns but have no spare cash

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35056
Location: Devon

Posted: Thu Jun 07, 07 1:31 pm Post subject:

Frewen wrote:

Only 3 galls of elderflower (clearing) and two galls of blueberry (long steady fermentation been going on for weeks now). I need more demi johns but have no spare cash

We picked up a load at the tip (sorry recycling centre), and they are often on freecycle.

Kitchenwitch

Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 25
Location: Devon

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 07 1:52 pm Post subject:

6 demijohns of sloe, clearing after second racking (yes, they're late. No, I don't care.)
4 demijohns of plum (one of which smells a tad... odd)
1 demijohn of lemonbalm (waiting to be bottled)
2 demijohns of white ginger (ditto)
2 demijohns of rosehip, clearing and awaiting bottling
2 2-litre bottles of elderflower champagne, ever so fizzy and utterly gorgeous

Hoping to try making some beer for the first time shortly - anyone got any recipes to pass on? We've been reliably informed that we can sidestep the need for a pressurised thingy, and just sling it in a bucket...

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 07 2:44 pm Post subject:
Can't remember - they were last seen at the back of the cloakroom... At least they haven't exploded or spilled over or anything but who knows

KatP

Joined: 19 May 2006
Posts: 79
Location: Aberdeenshire

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 07 3:22 pm Post subject:
Not much! Moving house not conducive to demijohns really (especially with the way the blokes hoiked boxes around ) About to start some clover off though, bucket sterilising as we speak. Probably about due for some more mead, maybe a metheglin this time. Any suggestions for something speedy to boost the stocks?

Sarah D

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 2584

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 07 6:34 am Post subject:

Just racked off the rose petal wine; starting some parsnip (very last of the English parshnips here, bought very cheaply in the shop) and some chilli wine today, and another 4 gallons of simple beer.
Also want to go out and pick honeysuckle - that made a very lovely wine, and there is a lot of it this year. Lots bubbling away in the cupboard, and we found some bottles of forgotten dandelion last night, so made a small inroad into that - quite good.

Soon time for the elderberries, so need to get racking to make sure there are enough free demijohns for the wine and port. My white elder is promising to produce a lot of fruit this year, so white elderberry should be on the cards.
Lastly, I need to clear out the jam cupboard, and leftovers will go into another bucket.

Kitchenwitch

Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 25
Location: Devon

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 07 11:24 am Post subject:
Like the idea of the honeysuckle, Sarah - would you have a recipe you could share? Likewise the chilli - we're growing chillis this year as if they're going out of fashion, so I quite like the idea of wine -- !

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