25-08-2018, 11:40 PM
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Home made wine
I have only tried to make wine once, it was in the 1990's.I forgot to clear some of it, and my babysitter drank it
I think I used a kit from Boots.
But, in the past, I have drunk the proper homemade stuff.
I remember drinking Bannnana wine, actually, I only remember the name and nothing else.
So have you made wine?
Or do you have stories of trying it?
26-08-2018, 12:00 AM
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I remember my aunt and uncle making wine when I stayed with them one summer as a child. They had these massive glass jar things with a little valve in the top that would release a bubble every so often. It was fascinating to watch this live experiment and I could hear the bubbles pop when I was falling asleep in the next room. Goodness knows what they were making it from, I think it was something like redcurrants or some similar berry that they had grown oodles of on their allotment. I never got to taste it but I wasn't too curious at that age.26-08-2018, 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by AnnieS
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I remember my aunt and uncle making wine when I stayed with them one summer as a child. They had these massive glass jar things with a little valve in the top that would release a bubble every so often. It was fascinating to watch this live experiment and I could hear the bubbles pop when I was falling asleep in the next room. Goodness knows what they were making it from, I think it was something like redcurrants or some similar berry that they had grown oodles of on their allotment. I never got to taste it but I wasn't too curious at that age.
26-08-2018, 08:06 AM
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When my wife & I got married in 1970. My new father in law who was a builder, through a contact of his, wangled us a rent free caretakers job in a large house on the East London/Essex borders that was due for demolition. At the back of the house was a large conservatory dominated by just one huge ‘thing’ growing out of one corner! This thing turned out to be a grape vine, which at the appropriate time produced an almighty bumper crop of lovely dark red grapes. By today’s prices, about £300-£400 worth! I had never made wine before although my mother had done so for years. So I split the harvest with her and bought several demijohns and all the other stuff from Boots the chemists and went into production.My mother never bothered with all the paraphernalia and still made some amazing wine. My first attempt I think was a reasonable success, and I have dabbled every now & again since.
It seems that Boots no longer sell wine making equipment, but Wilkos appear to have taken over with abundant enthusiasm!
I have made elder flower and elderberry wine. But my greatest success was a claret from a concentrate. It was absolutely spot on with taste & bouquet.
26-08-2018, 09:19 AM
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I used to make 'country wines'. I still have hundreds of recipes for them all. The most potent one I made was from Parsnip - that was absolutely lethal !!!On the day of the 'total eclipse' in 1999 everyone was sitting on the grass by the old roman camp above Brighton waiting and watching for the eclipse. I, on the other hand, plastic bucket in hand was rummaging through the bushes picking blackberries to make both blackberry wine and blackberry gin. Both went down very well with my friends at the next party I was invited to.
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