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Hi Folks, Julie & BaWS I'm sure you'll be happy to hear I confessed everything to my wife.... and she made me make mozarella first :( so.. We got to making and in our little adventure we panicked on the first batch thinking it wasn't working and ended up dumping out perfectly good curds. Then...

Hi Folks, I want to make a nice red wine batch and I know there are a tonne & a half of kits available. I just wonder if there are any good alternatives to forking out for a high quality kit wine, I've seen things on the YouTube of people using Welch's would anyone reconmend it? I...

Hi Folks, Wine & Cheese are my two little luxuries in life :D I've already made a good start on the wine production and I am about to begin cheese. I'm being ambitous and attempting a blue cheese to begin with, as soon as my culture gets here in a few days I'll be getting the starter ready and...

Hi Folks, I had someone give me a good stack of frozen rhubarb ready for wine so I prepped my must, inverted my sugar and set of sailing. Start PA @ 14% apprx. SG .105. It started fermenting well and before I knew it 2 days in I was at .030.. I decided I better rack but had to get some...

Hi, I really want to start up a batch of strawberry wine next but someone has told me it doesn't keep very well. I assume they mean it will spoil with age (sour?) Can anyone else back this up or dismiss it? I'm still going to make some but it will determine whether or not I make enough...

Hi Folks, So my apple wine has now settled at 0.998 but is still fizzing away gently. it's already looking quite clear! Should I degas it first (will this stir everything up and mean I have to wait for it to clear again?) or should I add cam, meta etc first to stabalize it. I'm not too...

Hi, I'm just on my first batch but the experience so far has given me a real itch to get creative. It's such a great learning experience and theres still so many dynamics I'm trying to undertand I really want to experiment and make as many different wines as possible and quite importantly...

Hi Folks, Just started on my wine making ventures after deciding to put my old beer brewing started kit to good use. I'm trying to make 25L of Apple Wine. So far I've created my must, sugared (straight table sugar & 1kg inverted), BUT I've gone and put my mixture straight into demijohns...