Recent content by wyon

thanks for your help. I will try a different recipe next time that doesnt leave the parsnips in after boiling etc. By the way what is your view on brewing wine without the use of camden tablets and other chemicals - I would like to be able to do it because I dont like the dire warnings on the...

Thanks for your help and advice. A few hours later I abandoned the project due to rank and developing smell of vinegar:drunk: :drunk: ah well you win some and lose some. ... but I dont really know what I did wrong- everything was sterilised carefully.......

What did they do in the olden days then before sulphites and other chemicals were available? Surely it must be possible to make good brews without mixing them with chemicals that have dire warnings on the side of the packet? Any advice on how to do this would be much appreciated.

The recipe as requested: 4 lb parsnips, 6pts water, 1.5 oz ginger, 3 lb sugar, 4oz raisins, 8oz pearl barley, juice of 1 lemon and 1 orange. yeast. pour boiling water over diced parsnips. leave 4 days. Add other ingredients and leave in a warm place to ferment- that it where I have got up to...

Hello, I have been making some parsnip wine for about a week now. It smells a little odd but the thing that is really worrying me is that I added the yeast yesterday and there are VAST quantities of slimy bubbles rolling over the side of my five gallon container (only two gallons brewing). This...