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Hazel at the Hill · #36 (**permalink**) 10-02-2008, 07:31 PM

Oh! Forgot to say - SG down to 1006 from 1096 at the mo.

Flummery · #37 (**permalink**) 11-02-2008, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Brewer-again

Hi! Hazel, Shirl and friends. I have read through the whole thread as I have helped in this area before but it looks like you are there at the end of the thread.
I will try to find my previous post which relates to this discussion.

I don't wish to be adverserial but Flummery it depends on your definition of wine.

I realise that most continental wine is made from the 'vine' ( maybe the connection ??) but if you consider beer/lager as 4-7% alchohol, and wines as 10-14% then you get into dark country. What about Barley wines 8-10%.

If I make a wine from blackberries have I made a wine ?
If I make wine from gooseberries have I made a wine ?
Damsons, apples or pears, what have I made?

One thing I have made is a really nice drink which is about 10-14% alchohol.

I love country wines, I celebrate country wines. So carry on, some will not brew out as you want, but then save these to mix with others.

Many of the 'best' wineries mix different years produce to give a taste that is acceptable.

Have fun.

I would just say I define wine as pleasant. I've drunk lots of veg wines that weren't.

Hazel at the Hill · #38 (**permalink**) 13-02-2008, 07:55 PM

Now hands up all grapes who thought that demijohns were all the same size? Yep, me too. And guess wot - we'd be wrong.

Celery wine has been fizzin' away in a brown dj, and now that I've racked the parsnip wine off, it leaves me with a free clear dj, so I using a funnel I whizzed the celery-brown-dj into the clear dj. The plan is that I can see what the celery wine gets up to, and how it's clearing.

Brown dj = big, clear dj = small.

All I can say is that it's a bloody good job that I was pouring the wine into the funnel in the dj in the sink.

shirlthegirl43 · #39 (**permalink**) 13-02-2008, 07:57 PM

Oh bugger, how much of a difference Hazel? You could put the leftover wine into a sterilised bottle and stick a wad of cotton wool in the top. Then you can use the stuff in the bottle to top up after racking off the lees later. Hope that makes sense.

scarey55 · #40 (**permalink**) 13-02-2008, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Hazel at the Hill

Now hands up all grapes who thought that demijohns were all the same size? Yep, me too. And guess wot - we'd be wrong.

* holds hand up.

I thought they were all the same size - and I've been on this wine making caper for a while now, thanks for the heads up. Bet you were madder 'n ell

Hazel at the Hill · #41 (**permalink**) 13-02-2008, 08:00 PM

Yep - it makes sense to me, but I'm not sure of the difference (it can't be THAT much) as all the loverly celery wine which overflowed went down the plug 'ole.

Ah - live and learn.

I'll measure and label the djs now - I suspect they are metric/imperial differences or something?

Flummery · #42 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 10:34 AM

How can you metricate a gallon of wine? It makes 6 bottles! They haven't changed the size of a bottle of wine for heaven's sake. Press on kid!

shirlthegirl43 · #43 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 10:46 AM

It could be that somehow you have landed up with a US gallon demijohn, that would be a little smaller than ours.

Hazel at the Hill · #44 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 12:30 PM

And now that the celery wine is in the clear dj, I can see what's going on.

It's still bubbling a bit - it'll be interesting to see how long it takes to clear compared to the parsnip wine which was only at the 'emulsion paint' stage for about a week.

wellie · #45 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 01:22 PM

Wow! that looks very profesh Haze. Watching with interest still, and I'm learning a lot here.....
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shirlthegirl43 · #46 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 01:26 PM

Looking good Hazel. I bet you didn't sample that as you transferred it

Hazel at the Hill · #47 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by shirlthegirl43

Looking good Hazel. I bet you didn't sample that as you transferred it

Haha! You're right there! Even in the interests of reseach you have to draw the line!

smallblueplanet · #48 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 02:10 PM

Hey all you brewers, I thought I fancied a go at brewing beer.....but well the idea was better than the actuality.

Anyway, I bought one of those old 'beermakers thermostatic heaters' off ebay - would anyone care to swop it for some seeds? I'm not sure it works, but if no-one wants it I'm gonna throw it away?

Hazel at the Hill · #49 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by smallblueplanet

Hey all you brewers, I thought I fancied a go at brewing beer.....but well the idea was better than the actuality.

Anyway, I bought one of those old 'beermakers thermostatic heaters' off ebay - would anyone care to swop it for some seeds? I'm not sure it works, but if no-one wants it I'm gonna throw it away?

Oh! Is that like a heater thingy that you stick in the bucket (got something like that in the fish tank!) or a jacket thing that you put round the bucket or something?

smallblueplanet · #50 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 02:21 PM

Its the heater thingy you stick in a bucket.

Edit - just pm'ed you.

Hazel at the Hill · #51 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 02:27 PM

No worries!

Hazel at the Hill · #52 (**permalink**) 20-02-2008, 03:16 PM

Nearly a week in the clear dj, and the celery wine is still looking somewhat opaque.

Better than it did, tho'...