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giraffe

Joined: 07 Oct 2005
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Location: Nottingham

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 12:15 pm Post subject: what brews do you have on at the moment?
I have: 1 gallon coffee wine, 1 gallon grape wine, 1 gallon ribena wine, 1 gallon plum jam wine and 5 and a half gallons of bitter. Got some demijohns left so might put some more on in a couple of weeks - thinking rice and raisin, tinned fruit, and tea. What's everyone else got on?

jema
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 12:31 pm Post subject:
25 gallons Elderberry 5 gallons Rice and Raisen 5 Gallons Shiraz kit 4 Gallons Banana 5 Gallons Sloe That's the fermenting stuff...

giraffe

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Location: Nottingham

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 2:42 pm Post subject:
flippin 'eck that's a lot of elderberry!

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 2:51 pm Post subject:
I can vouch for J's elderberry - seriously good stuff 3 gallons easy cider 2 gallons red (kit ) Hoping to do more this weekend

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 2:57 pm Post subject:
Errm... about eight or nine assorted at the moment. Metheglin, apple and spearmint, elderflower still maturing, etc. Can't rightly remember!

katie

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Location: midlands

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 3:00 pm Post subject:
I've got 1 gallon rosehip 1 gallon plum 1 gallon apple 1 gallon 'easy' apple. Thinking of making some ginger next and I might get a kit to get something ready for Christmas. we've just drunk the rhubarb and it was very good. I'll definitely make more than one gallon next year!

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 3:32 pm Post subject:

Just bottled two gallons of this years Rhubarb and a gallon of this years Dandelion.

Waiting to be bottled:

1 gallon Rose petal
1 gallon Sage flower
1 gallon Mixed Mint (mainly water mint with some other garden mints)

Almost waiting to be bottled:

1 gallon wild Raspberry

Fermenting:

1 gallon Blackberry.
1 gallon Damson
1 gallon Summer Berry

All but the Damson and Summer Berry are made from ingredients from our back garden.

To go on a gallon of slightly less easy easy cider, I'll add some extra apples to the fruit juice. Possibly a gallon of wheat wine and a gallon of bitter when I get time.

Rachel

Joined: 26 Aug 2005
Posts: 27
Location: Northampton

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 4:41 pm Post subject: What brews do you have on at the moment?
5 gallons of apple, which usually turns into pommery (is that how it is spelt?) at about 17 % alcohol. Best drunk young and absolutely lethal!!!

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 5:27 pm Post subject:
1 demi john of elderberry - my first ever home brew

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 7:38 pm Post subject:

About to go on (all from the freezer):
3 galls damson
5 galls plum
2 galls blackcurrant

When there's space, it's time I did another 5 gall batch of (kit) beer : Scottish Export

In full ferment :
2 galls blackberry
3 galls sloe
1 gall All Souls (crab apple + pomegranate)

Slowing to a finish :
4 galls plum
1 gall damson 2003 (and about time too)

Recently racked and maturing :
1.5 galls damson 2003
1.5 galls plum
3 galls rowan
2 galls nettle
1 gall quince
1 gall pear
3 galls blackcurrant

Caplan

Joined: 30 Aug 2005
Posts: 90

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 9:24 pm Post subject:
Not enough is my honest answer to the question! About 15 Gallons of various bits at the moment. Although i do have various frozen berries in the freezer waiting for me to start. I just need to bottle a couple of gallons to free up a demijohn or two. I'm looking forward to the long christmas break to enjoy a few glasses of my own efforts and plan the next few brews!

Mat S

Joined: 07 Nov 2004
Posts: 282
Location: Leicester

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 9:47 pm Post subject:
5 gallons elderberry, few gal elderflower (some with, some without rasins, different recipes), one gal cherry. About half of them seem to be stuck ferments at any one time - also considering an pH testing kit. Might get a ginger wine on when I've freed up a demijohn or two.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 05 11:17 pm Post subject:
Flaming hell. We obviously don't drink enough in our house

gil
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 05 12:58 am Post subject:
I thought we were talking about making wine, not drinking it My excuse is I'm laying down a cellar, and have lots to give other folk. Haven't bought supermarket wine for months. It just doesn't taste right any more.

giraffe

Joined: 07 Oct 2005
Posts: 272
Location: Nottingham

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 05 9:39 am Post subject:
I was just thinking - crikey how much must you lot drink

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