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I fermented with skins on the grapes and plums. It's all starting toile sense now. Does anyone know where I can get wine grapes in uk? London :-)

Hi I'm a complete novice, but I thought my wine wasn't bubbling until I realised that the co2 was escaping around the cork! You could try Vaseline around the bung?

I followed this guys advice in the "all by myself section": http://ingeb.org/junk/wine.html I guess this is not the way!

Ok I followed a dubious online recipe for "simple" wine. It was as follows: 5kg fruit 5kg sugar 4 gallons water Wine yeast 1 satchet/gallon Ferment one week in a 5gallon bucket then into demijohns for one month then bottle. The wine tastes great even at this stage. But it's pink :-) I am...

I used 1/3 wine grape from my allotment, 1/3 Grape from the market, 1/3 plum from the market. Didn't use any sulphites except in sterilising. It's bubbling away in demijohns so is still alive :-)

Made some grape and plum wine. It's my first ever batch. It's pink not red as I expected sitting in the demijohns. Any one got any suggestions?

Hi there. I make no bones about being an absolute beginner, but have the passion of a seasoned brewer! I've just finished the first stage (5 gallon bucket stage) of a Grape and Plum mix must. I used 1/3 wine grape from my allotment, 1/3 plum from market and 1/3 eating grape. Yesterday I...