Oooooh yeah man 🤙

[Satoshi]

New here, I've just run through a boxed wine as a sacrificial run, it tastes awful

I was searching for info about methanol and found you guys, thanks for being here

There's a banana wine fermenting in the airing cupboard, I've got 4.5lt of that, if it turns well. If so, I'll be putting a few litres through to see what I get. I'll be doing another wine run before that though, I'm hooked

 

[fluketamer]

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/supermarket-juice-wine-how-to-guide-and-recipes.49462/
some really good recipes here and process spelled out


my favorite is
2 liters of bilberry juice (wild eastern european blueberries)
1 liter of white grape juice ( red grape juice makes this dark black white grape juice makes it a beautiful bluish purple)
500 to 700 grams of table sugar
1 tsp of pectolase
1 tsp of yeast nutrient
2-3 black tea bags in 1 cup of hot water
juice of 1/2 a lemon
brought to 1 gallon

ive used montrachet and it works good and ive used k1v1116 both work very well

this is highly drinkable

semi sweet to dry ish but not too dry

( after racking to another demijohn for clearing i pour 1 gallon of apple juice straight onto the leftover lees and let it go for 4 weeks it makes the best blueberry apple cider ever (with a pinkish lavender hue))

 

[Satoshi]

I've read that the first run can be awful, I have done a fair few water runs, the left over wine I've left to cool with the lid on, so the still will be emptied in the morning.

I didn't separate any foreshots, heads, hearts or tails because I thought I shouldn't need to with having used a wine. Any thoughts??

 

[fluketamer]

sorry i didint realize you were distilling i thought only fermenting wines . i dont know anything about distilling but welcome to the forum

 

[El Whedo]

No cuts? Headache juice...

 

[Satoshi]

No cuts? Headache juice...

Yeah, thought it might be OK because it's come from wine. First pint burns clear flame, the next ¼ doesn't take a flame. So I shut it down to cool, hoping for advice on how to salvage a product