Recent content by estubur

Hi all, Added more yeast & some nutrient and we are fermenting again!!! /stuart

I just got recipe out of old wine making book, as i say i am new to this having done this only with my grandfather 118 years ago when i was 15 Just used a normal fruit wine yeast nothing special, no backing yeast, removed fruit as i had made a nice must over a week, and have not got a clue...

OK:- took 6lb cherries, destoned mashed added 6 pints of water boiling and campden tablet, left for 7 days. strained through muslin into demijohn, added 3lb sugar, some yeast applied airlock and watched This is all, was all going fine until it stopped. Left for 3 days same situation...

OK so bought hydrometer, dropped it in demijohn and cant get it out . . . Only joking took reading and it says 1.024 is this ok? :a1

OK... it does taste alcoholic and slightly cherry :-)

Tasting now . . .

:-) So instead of meta-K can i use campden tablet? Should I try hrdrometer first? I was really expecting it to take 3 months to ferment. By Racking do you mean syphoning off into clean demijohn then replacing airlock for a while?

Ok, dont have hydrometer, will get one tomorrow and post the gravity of it, so far I have not done any racking, but you are correct it has started to clear a little. Yesterday I removed airloack and replaced it, was this a bad thing to do...?

HI I have just started making fruit wine i used to make as child with grandad and thought i would try again. I started with a cherry wine made must from 6lb de-stoned cherries, funneled into demijohn with 3lb sugar and yeast, job done fementation took off all was happy :-) Then all of a...