Hi Guys!
Well, for the first time since my student days, I've started my first batch of homebrew wine! We had a taste of a fellow plotholder's Rhubarb Wine a few weeks ago at the plot BBQ, and both decided that perhaps the time was now right for us to renew our interest in homebrewing, but also as a way of using some of our surplus crops!
We recently picked up some freecycle and ebay equipment, and after a trip to the local homebrew shop for some supplies to start a batch of Elderberry Wine and a batch of Mead, we came away with an Elderflower Wine Kit and some dried elderflowers!
The kit wine was started today, and is now gently fizzing away, with the airlock bubbling nicely, the dried elderflower wine will be started tomorrow, once I pick up some lemons that CJ Berry suggests we use in his recipe (its a very old copy I've got, Ive had it for 25 years+), then once I've gotten some Elderberries picked that will be started soon after!
The Mead will be made using the honey that we get from the cappings and a couple of jars that have granulated, thats going in a 5 Gallon fermentation vessel, so we should have plenty of alcofrol on its way in the coming year!
Well, for the first time since my student days, I've started my first batch of homebrew wine! We had a taste of a fellow plotholder's Rhubarb Wine a few weeks ago at the plot BBQ, and both decided that perhaps the time was now right for us to renew our interest in homebrewing, but also as a way of using some of our surplus crops!
We recently picked up some freecycle and ebay equipment, and after a trip to the local homebrew shop for some supplies to start a batch of Elderberry Wine and a batch of Mead, we came away with an Elderflower Wine Kit and some dried elderflowers!
The kit wine was started today, and is now gently fizzing away, with the airlock bubbling nicely, the dried elderflower wine will be started tomorrow, once I pick up some lemons that CJ Berry suggests we use in his recipe (its a very old copy I've got, Ive had it for 25 years+), then once I've gotten some Elderberries picked that will be started soon after!
The Mead will be made using the honey that we get from the cappings and a couple of jars that have granulated, thats going in a 5 Gallon fermentation vessel, so we should have plenty of alcofrol on its way in the coming year!
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