Home made wine

[Lord Potts]

I have 3 grape vines but not much of a harvest this time of year. I ended up with 40lbs of rhubarb and theres only so many crumbles i can eat

I suppose that the other advantage of rhubarb wine is that it keeps you regular.

Having lived in that London for 40 years I have just moved to a part of the country where rhubarb grows as well as it does in the North East. I could never grow it in my garden in London but it used to grow like a weed in me mam's garden when I was a kid.
Rhubarb cumbles were great. but so was rhubarb fool and rhubarb and ginger jam.

 

[Bad_mother]

I've made rhubarb wine very successfully for several years... Slicing and freezing it first gives a better result.
Add in some white grape juice or concentrate to add some tannins, but other than that, water, sugar, yeast and some acid blend. Enjoy !

 

[the boot]

Recipe here for you.

rice and raisin wine get's second.

It’s going on today mate. Been waiting for amylase to come as I ran out. I will let ya know how it goes.

 

[pillars of hercules]

It’s going on today mate. Been waiting for amylase to come as I ran out. I will let ya know how it goes.

Did you make your rice and raisin?

After I did the rhubarb I've made elderflower then blackcurrant. I'm going to set some raspberry wine away today with the bags of it I've got in the freezer.

I didn't realise how good the elderflower wine would taste. I'm trying to let it mature but it's difficult to leave it alone .

 

[the boot]

Did you make your rice and raisin?

After I did the rhubarb I've made elderflower then blackcurrant. I'm going to set some raspberry wine away today with the bags of it I've got in the freezer.

I didn't realise how good the elderflower wine would taste. I'm trying to let it mature but it's difficult to leave it alone .

I did and a gooseberry. Like you say hard to leave alone, mind the rice and raisin is rank. But been told to leave both now till next year. So I suppose when I do next years I will open them both then carry on. Got a red about ready to be bottled just made with grape juice (the last one looked like cherryade) but was gorgeous, the wine I’ve done tbf.
The niece is getting married next year and wants a rhubarb wine doing in the grolsh type litre bottles with fancy labels so I will have to get that sorted.
It’s the same when I go fishing people ask for fish then they want it filleting and skinning!!! I’m out now in our lasses back garden with a stout I did in the sunshine. Nowt better.

 

[pillars of hercules]

I did and a gooseberry. Like you say hard to leave alone, mind the rice and raisin is rank. But been told to leave both now till next year. So I suppose when I do next years I will open them both then carry on. Got a red about ready to be bottled just made with grape juice (the last one looked like cherryade) but was gorgeous, the wine I’ve done tbf.
The niece is getting married next year and wants a rhubarb wine doing in the grolsh type litre bottles with fancy labels so I will have to get that sorted.
It’s the same when I go fishing people ask for fish then they want it filleting and skinning!!! I’m out now in our lasses back garden with a stout I did in the sunshine. Nowt better.

I split my gooseberry plants and they've grown great but no fruit so will be next year.

Cheeky gits wanting the fish filleted. I bet they want you to take it round for them anarl

 

[Cheesy Feet]

Bloke on my estate gave me a bottle of his homemade wine after his granddaughter hit my car..fkn shite..I poured it on an ants nest..worked like cos the nest's gone.

 

[pillars of hercules]

Bloke on my estate gave me a bottle of his homemade wine after his granddaughter hit my car..fkn shite..I poured it on an ants nest..worked like cos the nest's gone.

He's not going to give you the good stuff is he .
Probably the bit at the bottom with all the dregs of sediment in it. Not surprised the ants fucked off.

 

[Wilfy]

I did and a gooseberry. Like you say hard to leave alone, mind the rice and raisin is rank. But been told to leave both now till next year. So I suppose when I do next years I will open them both then carry on. Got a red about ready to be bottled just made with grape juice (the last one looked like cherryade) but was gorgeous, the wine I’ve done tbf.
The niece is getting married next year and wants a rhubarb wine doing in the grolsh type litre bottles with fancy labels so I will have to get that sorted.
It’s the same when I go fishing people ask for fish then they want it filleting and skinning!!! I’m out now in our lasses back garden with a stout I did in the sunshine. Nowt better.

Kit stout or all grain?

 

[pillars of hercules]

I'm going to make some cider out of apples I've got on a contaminated land. Ill have to wash the asbestos dust off them first

 

[The Raven]

A lad i know has been making home made wine for some for years and every batch that I have tasted has been utterly rank.

 

[pillars of hercules]

First year batches made:

• Rhubarb
• Mixed berries
• Elderflower
• Rasberry
• Blackcurrant
• Blackberry
• Damson
• Apple and BlackBerry
• Pumpkin
• Elderberry

Some actually taste like proper wine

 

[pillars of hercules]

First year batches made:

• Rhubarb
• Mixed berries
• Elderflower
• Rasberry
• Blackcurrant
• Blackberry
• Damson
• Apple and BlackBerry
• Pumpkin
• Elderberry

Some actually taste like proper wine

Tried my damson wine from last November. It tasted like shit to be honest when I first made it. I've left it in my garage for almost a year and it tastes great now. Better than most red wines I've bought

 

[yamar1]

I'm making some for the first time. I've got loads of rhubarb so it's rhubarb wine.

Any good suggestions that anyone has made? I've heard elderflower is nice.

it tastes like vinegar at the best of times, so good luck.

 

[pillars of hercules]

it tastes like vinegar at the best of times, so good luck.

Well if you're going to be a dick you can go fuck yourself

 

[yamar1]

Well if you're going to be a dick you can go fuck yourself

Now now dear.

 

[pillars of hercules]

Now now dear.

 

[Wilfy]

Tried my damson wine from last November. It tasted like shit to be honest when I first made it. I've left it in my garage for almost a year and it tastes great now. Better than most red wines I've bought

Home made wines do benefit from being left for a year or two.

 

[pillars of hercules]

Home made wines do benefit from being left for a year or two.

Tbh I only started making them early last year and most of them were rank. Tasting them now and what a difference

 

[Deleted member 45261]

Home made wines do benefit from being left for a year or two.

how would that work?