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Hi guys, I do love red wine, but at present, it seems like I can only make it at the end of summer when there are black and elder berries on trees. Using frozen fruit turns out so expensive. Has anyone had any success making red wine from juices? I was wondering about 3L red grape juice...

Great comment! That makes perfect sense! Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I agree bud. I bought an aluminium one second hand for £6 but it looks now like more bother than its worth! I have just picked a load of blackberries today, I have carefully placed them in water with a little campden. Ill then strain them and freeze them. Ive got the grape and sugar bubbling...

I love the idea of oaking up a red wine with smoked chips. I made a plum wine, which I was planning on coming out as a red, and I added 7g of smoked oak "chips" (although they were more like a dust?). The wine didn't actually come out like a red, and much more like a rose. Unfortunately...

The elderberries are almost now in season, and I managed to buy a cheap 2nd hand steamer juice extractor, which some people swear by. I am just wondering about how good these are compared to just bringing the berries to the boil to kill germs for a second, giving them a quick mash, then...

"Making Award Winning Wines at Home" by Bill Smith is such a great wine making book. I am currently making a gallon of the following base wine, which can then be used to make 6 different wines: Base Wine (Chiltern Masters / Bill Smith) ~15.5% 1.5L White Grape Juice or 368ml White Grape...

Thank you Arpolis. that was really informative and helpful. I have heard that "bulk maturing" is better, although again I have heard this is an old wives tale! I am going to bottle my wines and mature in glass bottles from now on. OK I may not benefit from bulk maturing (if it works)...

So far I have been maturing my wine in 5 litre plastic water bottles. I mentioned this to a wine judge, and he said that the plastic is oxygen permeable and therefore not good for maturing wine in. Surely cork in wine bottles and oak barrels are also oxygen permeable. When opening the plastic...

plum wine and plum and sloe wine. Ready for maturing Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

Blackberry wine. Lovely sweet red but bit as nice as fresh elderberry which is unbeatable! Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

I just realised you can upload pdfs here as well! Ive therefore attached it as a PDF! Enjoy!

Beautiful! And drinking straight out the demijohn - good man!!!

Plum Wine & Plum & Sloe Wine, just gone into secondary fermentation as well as the plums they came from.

Ive attached a copy of my country wine recipe designer here. I produced it after looking at recipes from every country wine book I could find, and after fermenting 20 different fruit wines and trialling different blends to establish which seemed to "work" together. It forms a simple guide...

I love the quantities you guys brew in! You must be much more confident in your recipes than I am!

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Also check out my produce, must, brewing, straining racking, bottling etc pics!!! https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/demijohn-must-produce-pics-454015/

Multi post away! Its always a pleasure to see the same pics more than once, and good to do so if it makes people see them who may have missed out!

Hi T Baggins, yesterday I saw your thread https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/few-pics-various-progressions-441685/ and realised I then started off the same one as you! I logged on this morning to paste your link under mine and see that you have copied across all your pics, so thank you and sorry...

I should though learn how to stick the labels on straight!