Recent content by petes

Most certainly can be put to good alcoholic use but topic forbidden here!

Yer rushin' it. Bottled one after 14 months - 2ndary rack at 6 months with campden, fined at 13 months. Bloody excellent; onya Joe!

I don't really understand what you are saying when you say bottle after two months and sweeten with wine stabilizer.... Can only suggest time will lessen tart. I have a gooseberry that was absolutely astringent right from day one. Just stripped all moisture from tongue, mouth, throat all the...

Suggestion - try searching. I have seen posts that claim preservatives used in such products can be negated by boiling. Or heating. FWIW.

On another forum I've seen frequent references to boiling (for 15 minutes or so) whatever has preservative contained, cool then use. I've tried it, no problem. What puzzles me is I don't ever recall seeing the process advocated here?

Being south of the border I can't, in my wildest dreams, equate the two....must be different ingredients or some such. Gewurz is one of my favourites. Apfel was, well, an interesting experiment. FWIW, maybe my fantasy factors are lacking.

No PET soft drink bottles 'round your place?

I've racked 4 times. Is a very clear, golden colour. Some lees have dropped yet - may or may not rack again. Presently not in a hurry; four years, right? :)

I'd been thinking fig wine or mead for a while, looked around the net for recipes, but most tended towards dried fruit which didn't suit me. At a farmers market over the weekend - fresh figs, extremely tasty and multiflora honey. All at the right price so bought on the spur. Conjured up a mead...

Put a 4 gall Joe's down on 14th, followed it with 2 gall Malkore's on 16th. Malkore's is going gangbusters presently, probably 'cause I used 71B - can't get the designers yeast here unfortunately, but it's looking a whole lot more promising then my last attempt.

flyweed, yeah I'm sure I didn't mix those two. I know that Joe's is far from everyone's ideal. I just haven't found anything wrong with it tastewise. Along with jmulligan, your responses are enough for me to give Malkore's another shot, my taste problem I'll put down to the yeast so just have...

I made up a batch of each concurrently; my second for Joe's and first for Malkores. Both had their problems for some reason. I posted re Malkore's and gained some wisdom from Hightest; Joe's just would not clear after fruit drop so I eventually hit it with bentonite which did the job...

Purchased one of these along with a Sanitary Siphon from MoreBeer; the sanitary job was what I was primarily after but took one of the others for bucket transfers. Problem; the Easy-Siphon won't. Anyone out there have probs with theirs please? Using it on wine racking, liquid just recedes...

Going back to the #2 post; I would've thought something like the addition of potassium carbonate would come to light here as a means of increasing a low pH and getting things going :confused: Reasonable or not?

Third rack today at 5 months. SG unchanged at 1003 so guess that's that; but the main event is drop-dead gorgeous. Vanilla and honey nose, vanilla throughout palate with honey tones at back. Great mouth feel, dry, no heat. Thinking can only get better, gunna be a long wait. ;)