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Hi, I made some wine recently (2/3 gooseberry, 1/3 strawberry) using a simple sounding recipe from a book. There was too much for the demijohn so I put the rest in a bottle, I made a hole in the lid and fitted a trap. A week later you can`t see through it and the trap is bubbling about once...

Hi. I have a Hinomaki gooseberry bush that produces red gooseberries. Does anyone have a good reliable recipe for a beginner to make wine from them? I live in Scotland.Thanks for any help. Terry

Hi, after bottling my gooseberry wine I tested it and found it hadn`t even started to turn alcoholic. I posted a thread about it last week - non alcoholic wine- and it was suggested that I test the PH, which according to my test strip seemed to be about 6.4. Is this batch of wine retrievable or...

Hi, I made some gooseberry wine in the summer using a recipe found on the Home Brew Answers website. I have just put it into bottles and tested it using a newly aqquired hydrometer. It shows a reading between 80 and 90 which surely means there is no alcohol in it. Can I rescue it or will I have...

I have just filled a demijohn with wine that has been fermenting two weeks. It is sealed with bung and airlock. There is about an inch and a half of cloudy material at the bottom. Do I need to do anything else to it and how to store for the next four months before bottling? Thanks for any help...

Hi I have started my first batch of wine last week, it has been in a fermenting bucket for a week. The instructions did not mention what to do with the hole in the lid. Should I have inserted an airlock, have I ruined the wine by letting air in? The airlock supplied came with a cap on the top...