goonmaster
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For starters its my first time brewing anything.
I had recently bought a self-sufficiency book and it talked about brewing etc so I bought my first demijohn last week!
Having decided to make wine by badly following a recipe in the book here I am.
4.5 litres of water
3 oranges
3 lemons
3 quarters of a litre of gorse flowers
a small cup of black tea made with 4 teabags
1kg white sugar
brewing yeast
All this was warmed a tiny bit
blended with one of those hand blenders
and it stewed in the demijohn for a day
It ran into some problems - too much pectin
it was syrupy as fu*k
After about the second day I filtered the solids out
and it sat there for about 5 days
did some research and bought some pectolase
it worked a charm!
everything sank to the bottom and it cleared up to simply slightly murky orange clear.
then just yesterday (its been a week since it all began) I racked off the gunk that sank down and now ive about half a gallon in total left
its still bubbling lots in the evenings when the heat comes on in the house
also note every time i closed it i used one of those kitchen lighters to burn up all the oxygen before putting the air lock back on
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My question is:
should i have left that stuff in it?
was it the yeast or glucose or sugar or something?
Will it be safe to drink?
When will i know when its ready?
images:
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http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p34/goonmaster/21022008004.jpg?t=1204141403
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p34/goonmaster/24022008.jpg?t=1204141404
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p34/goonmaster/27022008.jpg?t=1204141446
I had recently bought a self-sufficiency book and it talked about brewing etc so I bought my first demijohn last week!
Having decided to make wine by badly following a recipe in the book here I am.
4.5 litres of water
3 oranges
3 lemons
3 quarters of a litre of gorse flowers
a small cup of black tea made with 4 teabags
1kg white sugar
brewing yeast
All this was warmed a tiny bit
blended with one of those hand blenders
and it stewed in the demijohn for a day
It ran into some problems - too much pectin
it was syrupy as fu*k
After about the second day I filtered the solids out
and it sat there for about 5 days
did some research and bought some pectolase
it worked a charm!
everything sank to the bottom and it cleared up to simply slightly murky orange clear.
then just yesterday (its been a week since it all began) I racked off the gunk that sank down and now ive about half a gallon in total left
its still bubbling lots in the evenings when the heat comes on in the house
also note every time i closed it i used one of those kitchen lighters to burn up all the oxygen before putting the air lock back on
************************
My question is:
should i have left that stuff in it?
was it the yeast or glucose or sugar or something?
Will it be safe to drink?
When will i know when its ready?
images:
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p34/goonmaster/19022008015.jpg?t=1204141401
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p34/goonmaster/21022008004.jpg?t=1204141403
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p34/goonmaster/24022008.jpg?t=1204141404
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p34/goonmaster/27022008.jpg?t=1204141446