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Evening All. Thanks sgx2 for weighing in with a tweaked recipe - look forward to hearing how that develops - and in particular how it tastes this time next year! I made some from Becks the Elder's recipe in March 2013 - I'm not really prolific, and a bit of a procrastinator hence my delayed...

Thanks all!

Cheapskate question: am about to make some elderberry wine, and the recipe suggests doing a proper acid test during the process, and adding tartaric acid as needed. I don't have any, but I have citric acid - is this good enough, or should I be diligent, and less cheapskate?

Many thanks - that helps!

Many thanks - that helps!

Many thanks - that helps!

Quite a few recipes suggest that if you lose some of your batch to the air you should 'top it up' but not too many suggest what with... Surely if you were to top it up with water that would dilute the wine and negatively affect the alcohol content?

At the end of the summer I intend to have another go at elderberry wine as I'm hoping for a bumper crop this year. In the recipes I've looked at, a few suggest that once you've made the initial must, you should initially cover it - very closely to the top of the mixture to stop the air...

After the 1st proper summer the UK has seen in years, the elderberry crop looks like it'll be excellent for a change, so it's time to have another go! I've had a couple of goes at this previously and the results haven't been bad, but I'd now like to understand what I'm doing. If you search...

So is there no way to rescue what I have (I can't just bang in some more yeast??)

Hi Team, Thanks for your help so far. I should have asked: is there any way to resurrect what I've done? Can I add something else to make sure it's fermented properly, or have I failed utterly on this occasion?

Hope someone can offer me some guidance on this one - I followed the ginger wine recipe (above) as accurately as I could (so far minus the whisky), and as per one of the suggestions I added 1lb sugar first week, then second week same, 1lb honey the third week. After less than 4 weeks however...

Hi chaps, this is not a useful comment except to say I've thoroughly enjoyed reading your creative additions to what sounded like a fairly standard recipe to start with. I think you're all quite mad, but I can't wait to have a go ;-)

Fantastic! If we can beat customs control, perhaps we should ;-)