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Guest

Posted: Tue May 17, 05 9:47 pm Post subject: This is My Cellar, Shows Me Yours ...

Current stock of ale to day, Tuesday 17 May 2005...

7.5 gallons of bitter in cask (maturation another 2+ months min)
9 gallons of bitter in cask (maturation another 2+ months min)

3 gallons bitter in keg under co2

conditioning in secondary ...
4.5 gallons of stout with a belgian yeast
3 gallons of stout with fuller's 1845 yeast
... hope to bottle these, are there aren't enough stout fans to justify keggin or casking it.

in primary...
9 gallons of lager

in bottles...
around 25 pint bottles of strong belgian ale
25 pint bottles of strong bitter
(maturation on these i'm guessing at 4 months+, but hope
to keep until christmas).

2 gallons of plum melomel in demijohn and a gallon of rice and raisin. not prize winning brews. a couple of bottles of wine bottled
up and labelled.

oh, and 1 gallon of vinegar with a lovely film of mother working away on it

now how's about showing your cellar !

jema
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Posted: Tue May 17, 05 9:51 pm Post subject:
Bottled wine, quite a lot elderberrys, kit reds, orange blossom carrot whisky. Awaiting bottling. 5 gallons of Shiraz, 3.5 gallons orange blossom 4 gallons carrot whisky 4 gallons Sloe 5 Gallons Banana 9 gallons second pulp fermetnations of elderberry 2.5 gallons rice & raisen 1 gallon rotse petal 12 gallons or so Elderberry

Guest

Posted: Tue May 17, 05 10:19 pm Post subject:
That's a fine collection of wine you have there, you could open a wine shop with that What type of wine yeasts do you use for the wines you make ?

jema
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Posted: Wed May 18, 05 12:26 am Post subject:
I am currently using a dried yeast from arkwrights. https://www.arkwrightshomebrew.com/ Not been back in the wine game long enough to comment on it though.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Wed May 18, 05 8:26 am Post subject:

Currently 'on' in demi-jons, all are 1 gallng batches, many awaiting bottling, some still plopping:

Damson
Mostly elderberry
redcurrant
'black stuff from the freezer'
coltsfoot metheglin
cyser (apple mead)
orange blossom
water mint
Something else I can't identify... Oh, well, I'll taste it later.
Japaneseknotweed (Yaaay!)

Bottled and ready: Oh, all sorts of stuff.

To go on presently:
Watermint
Oak and elderflower
Weedings (it's an idea that I think has merit)

Blacksmith

Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 5025
Location: Berkshire

Posted: Wed May 18, 05 8:30 am Post subject:
At chateau Blacksmith..................... 4 gallons of "Dog-bolter" fermenting in bin. 2 gallons "easy cider" 16 bottles of nettle beer. 2 gallons of oak leaf wine, fermenting in bin. 5 gallons of Vin ordiaire in dj 3 gallons of rice and raisin in dj 1 gallon of gorse in dj 22 bottles of country wine. 8 demi johns awaiting use. Dave

cab

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Posted: Wed May 18, 05 8:32 am Post subject:
Oh, yeah, and there's one of 'kit' cherry too.

Blacksmith

Joined: 25 Jan 2005
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Location: Berkshire

Posted: Wed May 18, 05 8:43 am Post subject:
I dare you to say "kit cherry" after you have drunk a few glasses of it !

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed May 18, 05 9:07 am Post subject:

We have:
2 gallons of blackberry and apple ready to be sorted out for bottling.
2 gallons apple and our own grape than need to be racked. (I think this will age well as it has some cabernet sauvignon grapes in so has a hint of sharpness).
2 gallons of rhubarb fermenting
1 gallon Dandelion fermenting
1 gallon Easy Cider coming to the end of its ferment.

2 gallons of bitter fermenting (first attempt at mashing my own malt).

Some bottles of blackberry and apple, blackberry, blackberry port and nettle beer.

Planned:

Mint wine, Raspberry, something else quick and light, a couple of meads, something sweet and ageable, then more bitter with my own hops when they flower.

So guest, what do you do with all that bitter? I would like to here some more about what you do. Would you be interested in writing an article for the site?

ButteryHOLsomeness

Joined: 03 Apr 2005
Posts: 770

Posted: Wed May 18, 05 9:25 am Post subject:
i'm most impressed with everyone's stash of liquid goodies... one question though, where do you get all your bottles and corks? can you get these at the brew stores as well and are they expensive? i'm considering giving home brewing a go but i would like to have an idea of the total outlay before i do it.

jema
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Posted: Wed May 18, 05 9:43 am Post subject:

ButteryHOLsomeness wrote:

i'm most impressed with everyone's stash of liquid goodies... one question though, where do you get all your bottles and corks? can you get these at the brew stores as well and are they expensive? i'm considering giving home brewing a go but i would like to have an idea of the total outlay before i do it.

Corks are cheap from places like:

Arkwrights

Bottles can be had free, from hotels, bottle banks, or evgen by drinking some bought bottles

Blacksmith

Joined: 25 Jan 2005
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Location: Berkshire

Posted: Wed May 18, 05 9:44 am Post subject:
I think someone sugested it on here, I asked the land lady of a pub near my allotment if i could have any unwanted wine bottles, she gave me 4 straight away and is saving all the others for collection next Sunday! Corks i buy from local home brew shop, Dave

Guest

Posted: Wed May 18, 05 11:58 am Post subject:

ButteryHOLsomeness wrote:

I get most of my beer bottles and wine bottles from family. Demijohns from second hand shops or people giving up the hobby.

A lot of publicans will give you beer bottles (the ones with crown caps) for nothing. The flip-top bottles (eg. Grolsch) are usually kept by pubs because they come with a deposit.

For beer, don't forget you can use ordinary PET pop bottles. Very useful for checking the pressure on your beer, but the beer won't last as long compared to using glass bottles.

Recycling this way takes a little longer, but it's cheaper and oh so better for the environment

Corks shouldn't cost you more than a few pennies each, well worth buying a decent cork if you're investing a lot of time making a good bottle of wine.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Wed May 18, 05 1:56 pm Post subject:
Um, ashamed to say, at least on this site... 800 bottles of Stella. 24 bottles of Hoegaarden 30 litres of Merlot 20 litres of Chardonnay about 200 bottles of wine, of various sorts... And some salamis. These, at least, are homemade!

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Wed May 18, 05 2:38 pm Post subject: cellar
not as bad as me i'm afraid half a bottle of "Old Git" 4 cans of carlings

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