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Hi its about 2 years since I brewed my lilac wine, its not bad but I would say an acquired taste. It has strong flavour and it is very 'perfumy alcohol' as you'd expect from flowers, if you keep in mind the smell of lilac as you drink it you can really tell where it's come from. But I'd say this...

well there was no movement on the bubbles etc, but thought it was time to rack it off and get rid of the sludge, so i did that and filtered it with a vin brite on the way through. Had a little taste and it doesn't taste great yet, its just about drinkable but obviously very early days, you...

Thanks Lorena, I'll keep waiting then, maybe speed it up by filtering, I hate waiting and not knowing if it tastes any good :-), I'll have a sip at the first racking though! I'm going to stop worrying about bubbles too, from what you say its just a case of waiting, whether its in the demi...

Hi all, My initial fermentation of this rather rare wine went very fast, fizzed away and smelt of a 'fruity alcoholic drink', which I guess it is, initial hydrometer reading was a high 1.7 or 1.8 (blue section) it went down to 0.9 or less in 4 days, so quite fast, and well into the 'bottle...

Good to see some other people are getting some weird smells, I have poured boiling water over my lilacs and it smells a bit sulfurous, like eggs I'll persevere but I guess any flower that has been soaked in water for two days isn't going to smell as it did before it went in... all green stuff...