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Again, sorry for all the questions. I'd have put them all in one post, but I din't know more were going to come up. So, I like quite a lot of citric in my elderflower wine. I just read that you should wait until after primary fermentation is complete, or the yeast converts it to acetic acid...

Sorry for all the questions I'm posting today. I'm familiar with how oak barrels affect the flavour of wine, but...everywhere I've looked so far, they are recommending buying this type or that type, or just saying that you can buy them. I know oak chips don't grow on trees, but... Waiiit...

For one thing, glass demijohns are getting costly, and I'd need to get a lot of them, since I rarely make a batch of less than 50 liters at once. I just rack into a spare fermentation bin for secondary. I can't really see any great advantage of a demijohn except, maybe the narrow neck means the...

Okay, so I often make my own wine, and I'm not overly concerned about the taste. It's just something to get me plastered cheaply. Anyway, my last batch, I decided to try making sparkling wine. I won't go into too much detail cus I started a thread detailing what went wrong at the time. I'll try...

So, I make elderflower wine each year, mostly to save money on drink, so I'm not hugely fussy about the taste. This year, I decided at the last minute to have a go at making sparkling wine with one batch. However, the yeast just settled right to the bottom and there is no fizz at all. I only...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bITUjh6pWkc I jumped out of my skin when it exploded.

Hi, I usually only make elderflower and blackberry wines, and I always let them ferment fully before bottling...partly because I had no suitable bottles for anything else, partly to get drunk without going to the toilet as much. But, now I'd like to make some sparkling elderflower wine...