Recent content by rmck1

Yes that answers my question. Thank You. What I meant by champagne facilities was the bottles corks and such since they are different to standard wine bottles / corks / corkers... Might bottle some of my next batch in about 4-5 beer bottles with priming sugar and see what happens!!!

Does this also give you the opportunity to make sparkling wine without the facilities for champagne bottles?

I'm only a beginner myself so I can't really help but from what I've read in the past there should be a blanket of CO2 over the wine because it is denser than air. This would help prevent oxidising. The shape of the air lock could prevent contamination and probably did because it was for such a...

Its a Carafe 21 Medium dry white. Anybody have any experience with this brand?

I'll bring in the the instructions tommorrow and give the full details. Thanks

I got a 5 gallon wine kit for christmas and it calls for the addition of 3.5kg white sugar to the concentrate. I've only done a 1 gallon kit previously and that called for no additional sugar. Do you think I should go ahead with the method outlined in the instructions or is there an alternative?

Would a ginger wine be an interesting base for a type of mulled wine at christmas?

I've a question... Nearly eight months on... You got any left and if so how well has it aged?

Mixing causes them to release Sulphur Dioxide (which is the thing that does the sanatizing). This isn't nice stuff and you should try not to breath it...

I only drove down that way myself a week and half ago. Beautiful drive. Glad you enjoyed it. I'm guessing that you don't have much of that mountainous landscape around where you're from...

From Limerick, Ireland. Not too many Irish forums. Good job the internet makes the world such a small place!

I was wondering if anyone has gone to the effort of building a hotbox of some kind. I know the classic is to take a broken fridge (which is ideally insulated) add a 100W light-bulb and a thermostat and use this to store fermenting primaries. I've done the calculations and a 100W light-bulb won't...

I recently bought a small 1 gallon wine kit to have a go and make some wine. I decided to get the smaller kit as a test and sort of as a trial run. My plan was to run it as the kit instructions said and then if it turned out ok buy the larger kit (maybe later I'll move onto more adventurous...