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  • #16
    I've been making Elderflower Champagne for more years than I care to remember! I use champagne bottles recycled from local wedding venue plus corks and wire cages from Home Brew supplier. Two points to emphasise:
    (i) if you bottle too early, even the champagne bottles cannot contain the pressure - I keep my bottles covered with tarpaulin!
    (ii) Elderflower Champagne encourages flatulence - great with baked beans!

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    • #17
      Originally posted by amandaandherveg View Post
      Did anyone else give the HFW recipe a try and how did it go?l
      I followed the HFW recipe to the letter.
      My brew inflated several plastic fizzy drinks bottles to balloon-proportions (I put them in a strong cardboard box in the garage after reading about this on here)
      Tasted it again today and it was disgusting....
      As a keen brewer I don't pour stuff away lightly, but it's gone down the sink

      May try again next year with less sugar. It also gave me severe heartburn seconds after I drank it, which is not a good thing.

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      • #18
        Sorry to hear that Twinkle. I put in half the sugar as quite a few people had mentioned that the recipe was too sweet, I also added some yeast. Woohooooo! Very tasty and ever so strong with the extra yeast.

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