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    Help with a fruit wine recipe

    No it's what I need! Thank you! I have a plum wine ready to bottle at the weekend! I've read you can drink it young? so I'm looking forward to that! I think I'll try and get more elderberries, I found a recipe for elderberry and BlackBerry wine. The recipes called for 5kg of elderberries and...
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    Help with a fruit wine recipe

    Hello thanks for you reply! I can probably pick another kg or more of elderberries and buy more plums. I'm just unsure how much i actually need. The bottles are 1L of pure red grape juice not from concentrate. I was going to boil the elderberries, thanks for letting me know not to boil the plums!
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    Help with a fruit wine recipe

    Hello! So I've been out and picked 1.3kg of elderberries and I have 2kg of plums sliced and deseeded! I want to make a 25L batch with the two fruits I have. I also have red grape juice from asda I have 6 bottles and 2 bottles of blueberry. I was going to boil the fruit in water but I was just...
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    Plum wine recipe

    Hello! I stumbled across what i think to be a plum tree! I'm going to pick some this week at some point! Was wondering if anyone has a recipe as im struggling to find an interesting recipe for a gallon or 2? Has anyome made plum wine? How would I go about it? Thanks in advance Tori
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    Cheap kit

    Yeah it's finished fermenting. Just want to try and salvage the horrible taste by putting juice in. So if I add juice do I add k meta and then bottle? Can I add a Campden tablet? Is that the same sort of thing? Thanks
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    Cheap kit

    My first kit I made a belvino. It's nasty. Plain and simple. Could i now add 100%grape juice to the bucket its in to make it taste better? Thanks in advance!
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    Abv help

    Hi thank you for all the replies! This particular kit cost 25 UK pounds. So quite cheap bit the reviews were great! A bag is a kg yes sorry I should of specified! Tori
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    Abv help

    Hello. Here's the instructions! I followed them. I also read adding a little sugar can improve taste and alcohol volume! But I guess I can't test that theory now! Never mind! Thanks for your reply!
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    Abv help

    Hello! I'm new here and onto my second kit. And in the excitement I forgot to take a hydrometer reading!! It's been formenting for 5 days now and it too late! It's a Solomon and Grundy shiraz. Recipe called for 4 bags of sugar but I put 4.5 in. 5 litres of boiling water then the juice. Then...
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    Newbie making belvino Australian red

    Thank you that helps a lot! I got the belvino kit with the equiptment. I was thinking going for a Solomon Grundy next As for the wine im making now.. ive heated it up to 26 degrees and poured it from tub to tub as thats how the instruction said to do it. And it's still fizzy!
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    Newbie making belvino Australian red

    Thank you for your help! Do you have any red wine kits you would recommend? :)
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    Newbie making belvino Australian red

    Its not tasting good at the moment! I'm losing the will to live stirring it! How could I increase the temp? Thank you!
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    Newbie making belvino Australian red

    Thank you for your reply! How can I tell if my wine is degassed? Cheers
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    Newbie making belvino Australian red

    Ive got a long plastic spoon on the end if drill at the monent!ive been stirring but the intructions are vague!
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