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Another earthquake has hit Christchurch today at around midday and the central city is a disaster zone. 65 deaths so far and still more being pulled from the rubble. I cannot contact my friend and her family. There has been many after shocks since the september earthquake, none as high in...

Hi All! Anyone ever made tamarillo wine. I have just thawed 6 kg of pulp, added campden and I'm gonna wing it through the next stages. Any hints, recipies? Thanks from sunny tropical fabulous NZ !!!!!!!

Ok, so I'm gonna try this one out. Maybe it will be the first skeeter Down Under?? I have questions though. Do you have to use lees from previous batch of wine or is making a fresh starter ok? If so, which yeast is best? Also, i have hundreds of fresh lemons to squeeze, i assume this is ok...

Lets write a story, add your bit on and the only rule is that each entry has to contain the word 'wine'.... I'll Start: Once apon a time there was an ol timer called Jimbo and his ginger tom cat called SnoopDog. One day they were on their porch enjoying a glass of skeeter pee (snoopdog had...

Ever been so tired your eyeballs feel like they are on fire? Hot rocks. Mine are like that right now, need wine

The one (and probably only) disadvantage to living in this time zone is that every time I log on to this site all you guys are sleeping!!! No one on line! LOL Probably sleeping off a wine drinking session! I'm just about to start mine!!! Kiwifruit wine mmmmmm Sweet Dreams all!

Well, I've been away from here for a while and boy have I missed a fair bit by the looks!!! Anyhoo, I've recently bottled a divine grapefruit andd tangelo wine (thanks Allie for the inspiration for that one!), about to finish another 30 bottles of kiwifruit and don't know what to try next...

my ginger wine appears to have finished at 1.100. Been this way for a month. It has great flavour but is too sweet. If I started a dry wine would I add the ginger wine to the must (I havent added sorbbate or campden yet) of the new wine or wait till the new wine is finished and blend the two?

Hi all, me again just finishing my second batch of apple wine and it smells of rotten eggs. I know there are already threads on this but I have added campden and sorbate so would it be ok to splash rack or just leave it and pray???

Hi all! I've just started a kit choc raspberry port. The ol' guy at the home brew shop said that although it only makes 11 litres it will be ok in a 23 litre secondary. I'm worried about this. I only have the 23 litre or several 5 litres to split it into. What's the best way to go. He said the...

went out to a BBQ last night and started talking about winemaking (as ya do) the host's father jumped up and hurried inside, returning with a round of shot glasses filled with what looked like golden sherry. It was an orange wine that he had made in 1995 and he didn't like it so he threw it into...

I experimented with 2 unusual recipes that I found in an old book. Parsnip & Pineapple with smells divine and tastes like burnt toffee. The other one is Potato & Onion which smells like poo and tastes fab! Ahh well, I had to try these ones. They've only just finished fermenting so maybe...

Hi all, I have 4 litres of 'drinking' dark grape juice with no additives (except vitamin c) (store bought) and I have an old recipe book that has a very simple recipe for grape and mixed berry wine, I'm keen to give it a go and would also like to try using oak chips in this one. When and how do...

Ok, I still consider myself a beginner so I'm posting here. I just bottled the BEST kiwifruit wine (that's kiwifruit, not kiwi, kiwis are birds and don't make great wine LOL). 23 litres of bottled poetry, yahoo! what to make next...hmmm....

Hi all, I'm very excited to be ready to stabilise and bottle my kiwifruit wine. I feel it needs sweetening and I'm unsure how to begin. Do I stabilise first? and how many campden tabs (23litres), how much potasium sorbate? do I need both? It has clarified and stopped fizzing naturally but...

Hi all, My kiwifruit wine has been doing very nicely in a 23litre carboy. I racked it off the lees yesterday and topped up with water, replaced airlock. Before racking it was bubbling away nicely and I got an sg reading of 0.999. Today, no activity at all. Should I assume finished and degass...

Hi All! My coffee wine is having trouble clarifying and also degassing. I'm pretty sure it is because of the temperature, things are warming up here and my little shed just isn't cool enough anymore. I was wondering if it would be worth putting into the chiller at work for a couple of days or...

Ok, so I found my recipe in a really old CJJ Berry book. Bruised root ginger and tea and sugar with yeast and nutrients. however, there is no mention of pectolaise or campden tabs at the beginning.Should I do this as a matter of course? All the other wines I have made have started with campden...

I bought some of this for clearing. however I suspect it may be quite old as I cant find any info about it and it has little white lumps floating around in it....should I use it? Actually I have had really great results using banana gravy so maybe I'll just stick to that

Hey, thanks for letting me join you lot! My good friend Boozehag is my informant and we've been making wine for a few months now, Boozehag a bit longer than me. we've started a club that meets whenever we want to try out our brews and troubleshoot etc. Loads of fun! I've just bottled Apple wine...