Xmas Pudding wine

[Brengirl]

Yes really! I found the recipe on another website and have started the brew off today. The result should be a dessert wine of about 18%.
Has anyone else made this. If so, advice would be appreciated.

[rustylady]

Haven't tried it Bren, but sounds good. Could you post the recipe or the link please?

[Brengirl]

Hope this works....

Wine Number 4 Dessert Wine. - Wines at home

[rustylady]

Link works fine thanks Bren.

[Alison]

Interesting although am not sure I'd want a full demijohn worth of it

[Brengirl]

Truly Allison this recipe is so very messy and time consuming I am disappointed that it only makes a demijohn. If it turns out ok I would feel very honoured if you would accept a bottle.

[Alison]

Truly Allison this recipe is so very messy and time consuming I am disappointed that it only makes a demijohn. If it turns out ok I would feel very honoured if you would accept a bottle.

Lol - I now have an image of you up to your elbows in Christmas puddings

Keep thinking of giving wine making another try but never quite get around to it - tried years ago and ended up with some very palatable (but non-alcoholic) elderberry wine and some very alcoholic but very unpleasant (think cheap sherry) apricot wine. The first got drunk as a mixer and the second had a bottle opened about every six months in case it had improved (it hadn't!) and then thrown down the sink. Not my finest hour

[rustylady]

Keep thinking of giving wine making another try but never quite get around to it - tried years ago and ended up with some very palatable (but non-alcoholic) elderberry wine and some very alcoholic but very unpleasant (think cheap sherry) apricot wine. The first got drunk as a mixer and the second had a bottle opened about every six months in case it had improved (it hadn't!) and then thrown down the sink. Not my finest hour

Oh go on Alison. I haven't made any for years, but I did get some decent brews - blackberry was one of my best. I have recently started again (very recently so no results yet), but it doesn't cost a lot and doesn't take up too much room. I was intrigued by the Xmas pudding recips (didn't realise it actually needed a Xmas pudding) - sounds really messy

[Polly Fouracre]

I made it a good few years ago. One glass was more than enough and I poured the rest down the sink a couple of years later. Too sweet and sickly!!
Nothing much lost by trying it though.

[mrdinkle]

I have an xmas pudding wine fermenting at the moment. It is, as Brengirl says, the most messiest wine making experience ever. Xmas puddings are full of fat/lard and as you have to stir it a couple of times a day for a week you soon realise why it clogs arteries

There are some great recipes on that website, the wine number 1 variations (gooseberry and lychee) are superb if you want to make reliable trouble free cheap white table wine.

[Hilary B]

Wine goes sherryish if air gets in (OH drinks it anyway, but I don't). Some of it improves (if the sherry flavour is slight) but it's never the same.
Try a kit, and if that works OK, then you read some of the recipes on here and get going!

[Brengirl]

I have an xmas pudding wine fermenting at the moment. It is, as Brengirl says, the most messiest wine making experience ever. Xmas puddings are full of fat/lard and as you have to stir it a couple of times a day for a week you soon realise why it clogs arteries

There are some great recipes on that website, the wine number 1 variations (gooseberry and lychee) are superb if you want to make reliable trouble free cheap white table wine.

btw I love your name. My batch is now bubbling away on it's 3rd day. There is loads of sugar in it so I am hoping, with care, the yeast will devour the lot and give me some rib tickling juice for xmas 2010/11.