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sean
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Got a bit of a way to go to catch you up though. |
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sean
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Bottled the still cider 'cos I'm running out of demijohns. Starting two gallons of Gil's pomegranate wine. The pomegranates were down to 15p each, so it would have been rude not to. |
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gil
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18, 07 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| sean wrote: |
| Starting two gallons of Gil's pomegranate wine. The pomegranates were down to 15p each, so it would have been rude not to. |
You won't regret it....  |
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Penny
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I have some eldeberry made last year and left in the cupboard. (I forgot it was there  ) On de-cluttering day, I rescued it, but I'm a bit worried that it may be bad or something. It was just left to ferment, nothing added or anything, has not been taken off the lees - should I just have a taste and see? Is there any harm it can do? |
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gil
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If it smells OK, have a taste. If it tastes OK, rack it off the lees into a sterile demijohn. Then get it bottled. Should do you for Xmas.  |
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sean
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Pomegranate into demijohns. Enzyme added to gooseberry. Racking the mystery damson/bullace/whatever it is next. |
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alisjs
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don't know how you find the time to drink all that booze! |
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sean
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I'm very dedicated.
Racked the bramble, if it ends up as good as gil's I'll be extremely happy. The gooseberry seems to be responding to its dose of pectolase. Mystery Fruit is clearing of its own accord. Ginger mead nearly ready to rack but one of the demijohns doesn't seem quite sure whether it's stopped fermenting or not so I'll give them both a bit longer. |
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sean
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Bottled the bramble. Racked the ginger mead. Pear wine still actively fermenting, it's starting to scare me a bit. |
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gil
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| sean wrote: |
| Pear wine still actively fermenting, it's starting to scare me a bit. |
What's the SG ? Have you got a hydrometer ? |
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sean
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Yep I have. It's nowhere near down to the odd bubble though, there's a steady stream of bubbles rising through the must and regular blips through the fermentation lock. |
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sean
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Maybe cab described it as 'liquid pant remover' because it dissolves fabric. Or he left the 'i' out. |
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gil
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Ok, nearly four months since you started the pear. TD's fermentations can take a while too, because of ambient temperature. Where have you been keeping it ? Warm, cool, hot, cold ?
I'd be tempted to take a reading just out of curiosity, and to have some idea of how much longer it might take.
I've noticed that some wines will carry on fermenting for ages, but very little happens to the SG towards the end. i.e. they can sit bubbling for a month or so, and the SG reading might drop by 1 in that time.
If it's below 995, I'd put it somewhere cold for a couple of weeks to stop the yeast going (garage would be good in this weather), then rack it off the sediment. I doubt it would start up again. |
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sean
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Fairly warm. I'll drop the hydrometer in it tomorrow and see what it says. |
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sean
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Bottled the ginger mead. Moved the gooseberry into the spare bedroom because it's annoying me. Gazed with deep suspicion at the pear, apple and mystery damson/bullace/thingy wines. I need to stick a hydrometer in the pear and apple ones and shove some pectinase into the mystery fruit one I think. Pomegranate is slowing down now, but difficult to see what's going on 'cos it's in brown glass demijohns. |
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