I'm making wine

[Jim]

Stabiliser and finings added yesterday, swirled around a bit for the last 24 hours (as per instructions), now it's in the cool settling.

[thedeckking]

Looking forward to your review Jim. I've got a Wilko's right next to where I work and the new homebrew section has been catching my attention

[Jim]

In the bottles today. The sixth one is only 2/3 full, so it looks like I'll be sampling that one tonight (after all, you can't be too carefull can you?)!

[Andy]

Quality control is an important part of the process Jim!

Looking good

Interested to hear how this turns out.

[sbond10]

I believe the magic grabbing you refer to is the stabiliser converts the rubbish to a nutral charge then the finings it's negatively or positively charged so the rubbish is attracted to it and sucks it to the bottom.thats my understanding anyway

[Jim]

Here it is: -



It has crystal clear glow to it, which I tried unsuccessfuly to catch on camera.

This stuff smells like wine, tastes like wine and to be honest I was quite impressed by it and though there's a certain roughness about the flavour, that might even out after a bit of maturation; after all this is very, very young wine!

It's certainly head and shoulders above anything I made with Boots kits in the seventies - they were like flavoured water with alcohol in them, whereas this stuff is like proper wine.

I'll leave the last words to swmbo: "I can taste blackcurrants.......I like this better than a lot of the stuff we buy at the supermarket!"

[sbond10]

Was it a pure juice kit with added water or like the youngs added water sugar and a tiny amount of grape juice?

[Jim]

It was this one - link.

There was no sugar to add, just water. The can was about the size of a one can 40 pint beer kit.

[Laripu]

Uh-oh.... JWK?

[sbond10]

It was this one - link.

There was no sugar to add, just water. The can was about the size of a one can 40 pint beer kit.

Ah looks very similar to house of beaverdale similar price to