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By *aravancouple OP   Man
over a year ago

A Secret Hideaway In the caravan of love

I learning to make wine.

Anyone else here make their own wine or beer.

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By *G LanaTV/TS
over a year ago

Gosport

Wine, country wine, beer, cider and mead. Some from kits some from scratch. Results range from lovely to not even usable as sink cleaner.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I made some 45 proof Limoncello.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nice, I'd love to make my own. And sell it out my shed lol

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By *rumCoupleCouple
over a year ago

birmingham


"I learning to make wine.

Anyone else here make their own wine or beer. "

Wine, beer, and 40% alcohol for spirits. Not only do you (a) know what's going into it and (b) avoid paying excise duty, but (c) no hangovers.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I learning to make wine.

Anyone else here make their own wine or beer.

Wine, beer, and 40% alcohol for spirits. Not only do you (a) know what's going into it and (b) avoid paying excise duty, but (c) no hangovers."

Please tell me more about the no hangover part. What essential headfucking ingredient is missing when you make your own? Please dont say antifreeze lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

my mates gran used to make a super potent elderberry wine, you never realised how strong it was until you tried to walk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have helped make homemade wine, taste better or as good as a bottle costing £6 or so. If you do a basic wine, so results are great, so much cheaper to do. And it's fun to know you made it I did a gallon at a time before may get into it again

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Have been brewing ma own bitter, cider & lager for years. It's quite an easy process and you can buy many different kits

Only had one disaster about 4 yrs ago when I added too much sugar and me & the ex fucked off to Yarmouth for the weekend.....I had to buy a new pressure barrel

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Got a kit at Christmas and still not made any

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By *ucsparkMan
over a year ago

dudley

Family been making cider for ever, plum, damson and elderberry on go now and starting porter for Christmas this weekend

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By *az1312Woman
over a year ago

Somewhere near Coventry

Sounds really interesting this. Are the wine kits easy to use/follow.

Really fancy having a go at it.

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By *heMusketeersMan
over a year ago

Most West Mids Towns

i used to make a very nice wine from fallen rose petals,all i paid for was the sugar and the yeast and i had gallons of a very palatable ros'e wine.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love wine & have been thinking about this for some time. I thought I might go to one of those DIY wineries bf I give it a go at home.

Mrs

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By *nnejohnCouple
over a year ago

warrington


"I learning to make wine.

Anyone else here make their own wine or beer.

Wine, beer, and 40% alcohol for spirits. Not only do you (a) know what's going into it and (b) avoid paying excise duty, but (c) no hangovers."

yeast only ferments to about 18/20%.to get 40% is difficult without distilling, which is illegal and potentially very dangerous

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've been meaning to start making my own spirits. The kits I've looked at will make vodka at about 25-30% and take about 4 weeks start to finish.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I made some pomegranate champagne once!

It was tricky and kept popping the corks but eventually it was finished. A bright pink fizzy drink which had too much sugar to be alcoholic but it was nice chilled.

Penny

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Used to make wine and beer years ago.

One if the most potent was dandelion.

Went into a nearby field and picked as many dandelions as I could added the water, sugar etc and waited.

De-canted from Demi-John into another and waited another 4 weeks until it looked an smelt just fine.

Tasted pretty good too but very potent.

Trick with beer, if kit states 40 pints. Make 30 pints and ferment twice ie let it ferment for the 14 days or whatever it states on the label . Then siphon into another 30 pint container and do the same again. Only this time place a slice of toast on the surface for the last week

Very strong

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By *nnejohnCouple
over a year ago

warrington

hate to be repetitive,but worked for years with fermentation and if you're very lucky you might get a 20% brew.there are ways to fortify without distilling but it involves lots of messing about with freezing and skimming,which gets more difficult as the product gets stronger.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I learning to make wine.

Anyone else here make their own wine or beer. "

so what are you doing with your surplus stock

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By *aughtystuffCouple
over a year ago

wakefield

We got 2 Apple trees full of apples...Would love to know how to make a Cider press.. DiY set....Xx

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By *issmekate xxxWoman
over a year ago

Non Vanilla Land

I used to make loads when I was at college ... decades ago ... used to buy the kits from Boots ... I was renowned for it ... had many a good night on it too !!!

Made rhubarb wine once, with my granddads rhubarb, took ages, remember leaving it to ferment in the cellar, was very potent ... remember it taking varnish off a table !!!

It's worth a go I guess !!!

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By *ucsparkMan
over a year ago

dudley


"We got 2 Apple trees full of apples...Would love to know how to make a Cider press.. DiY set....Xx"

Pm me and I give you ideas

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By *ucsparkMan
over a year ago

dudley


"hate to be repetitive,but worked for years with fermentation and if you're very lucky you might get a 20% brew.there are ways to fortify without distilling but it involves lots of messing about with freezing and skimming,which gets more difficult as the product gets stronger."

I was led to believe freeze distilling was still illegal and subject to custom duty due to PBV total

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By *nnejohnCouple
over a year ago

warrington

probably,but it does remove the risk of producing bottles with a dangerous concentration of methanol,which is the risk with distillation

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We got 2 Apple trees full of apples...Would love to know how to make a Cider press.. DiY set....Xx"

hmmmmmmmmm cideeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

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By *rumCoupleCouple
over a year ago

birmingham


"I learning to make wine.

Anyone else here make their own wine or beer.

Wine, beer, and 40% alcohol for spirits. Not only do you (a) know what's going into it and (b) avoid paying excise duty, but (c) no hangovers.

yeast only ferments to about 18/20%.to get 40% is difficult without distilling, which is illegal and potentially very dangerous"

Only if you don't know what you are doing.

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By *rumCoupleCouple
over a year ago

birmingham


"hate to be repetitive,but worked for years with fermentation and if you're very lucky you might get a 20% brew.there are ways to fortify without distilling but it involves lots of messing about with freezing and skimming,which gets more difficult as the product gets stronger.

I was led to believe freeze distilling was still illegal and subject to custom duty due to PBV total"

Unlawful without a license (as opposed to illegal). But since you can easily buy a proper still ...

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By *rumCoupleCouple
over a year ago

birmingham


"I learning to make wine.

Anyone else here make their own wine or beer.

Wine, beer, and 40% alcohol for spirits. Not only do you (a) know what's going into it and (b) avoid paying excise duty, but (c) no hangovers.

Please tell me more about the no hangover part. What essential headfucking ingredient is missing when you make your own? Please dont say antifreeze lol"

I think it's mainly sulphites, which are used commercially as preservatives.

Funny how people get sniffy about homebrew, yet will happily glug a bottle of wine they have *no* idea what has been added.

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By *izz37Couple
over a year ago

stoke on trent

I'm making rhubarb vodka at the moment n starting some damson this weekend!! Mmmm!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I learning to make wine.

Anyone else here make their own wine or beer.

Wine, beer, and 40% alcohol for spirits. Not only do you (a) know what's going into it and (b) avoid paying excise duty, but (c) no hangovers.

Please tell me more about the no hangover part. What essential headfucking ingredient is missing when you make your own? Please dont say antifreeze lol

I think it's mainly sulphites, which are used commercially as preservatives.

Funny how people get sniffy about homebrew, yet will happily glug a bottle of wine they have *no* idea what has been added."

I dont know why I didnt think of that, thanks. Damn sulphites!

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