Recent content by Boozehag

Hey Dan i havent caught up with St Allie for a while but will look her up and mention you asked after her....oh and what is skittle wine???? Glad to hear everyone is enjoying their winemaking, i doubt ill ever give it up, it gives great pride to say I made it and a huge sense of achievement...

Hey guys and gals, big :hug for those i know, its been a while since I've been on here. Life has taken a whole new direction in general, I've changed careers and had all sorts going on with kids leaving home etc etc. As for my winemaking its slowed down a bit as I have learnt that I should...

Well youre all going to slap me, I didnt take a hydrometer reading at the beginning, couldnt get enough of a sample and was too lazy to filter some off (was late at night!:re Anyway so far it looks great and is fermenting well, its definitely a red although not terribly dark, apparently half...

Great stuff, thanks all of you for your help! I have saved that link Wade for conversions, much needed i think!!! ;-) Going to give the grape wine a go from today. Our feijoa trees are producing massive amounts of fruit so there will be an abundance of feijoa wine happening in this part of...

Duhhhh Im not good with these measurement things, I did mean 5 litres or the 1 gallon jar, it took me ages to find a receipe that would say how many kilos to use for what as most were in litres or ounces etc and as you can see maths is not my fortay. i did realsie i could only get about 6...

Well had to try it sometime, making a wine from actual grapes. I usually make fruit wines like feijoa or blueberry but someone gave me 8kg of grapes to play with. I know NOTHING about making grape wine, from what I have read on here, its a little more complex than other fruits so any help and...

Update - Allie isnt able to log in at present, her tweeneagers have used up all her broadband so she will back as soon as thats sorted! Yay!!!!:bt

I had that happen once, cat knocked it off and it was actually fine!

I like the second one better myself. Very cool labels, do you paint them yourself?

St llie is probably away on her island where she doesnt have internet! Thats where she usually is at Christmas time!

How do you put it on tap Wade? Im presuming you mean in a keg? Would no idea where to start with finding something suitable to put it into???

One of my New Years resolutions is to try new things and first up on the list is sparkling wine. I plan to make an apple base for this and add an fpack at the end of a strawberry base so it turns out something like Lindauer Fraise which has a strawberry flavour as thats my fav wine in a...

Why thank you!

My photo of my cat Pablo with his heart shaped spot must be on my other computer so Ill hunt that down.....but heres my painting I did of him called 'Mousecatcher' Hes named after Pablo Picasso because of my obvious art career, but surprising enough he actually takes a huge interest in my art...

Hahah thats funny, gag reflex! How true though, you do have to think about that sort of thing at times dont you! Regardless if its wine, baking, dinner or whatever, how clean is that person, did they use quality ingredients or scrimp and save etc etc!?!? Its important to me to use good quality...