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jema
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 20 10:50 am    Post subject: Banana wine Reply with quote
    

I picked up some cheap bananas some weeks ago and have just racked about 2.5 gallons of banana wine into demijons, looks like it will take a while to clear but tastes pretty good.
My last large batch of banana wine lasted probably about 15 years and was still improving
A resolution for next year is to get back into some decent batches of Country wines.
We also at the moment have some grapes fermenting, though I think we have a stuck batch of white grapes

sean
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 20 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Haven't made any wine for ages. We've done some Beech Leaf Noyau and Creme de Mures this year. I should get organised and make some of Gil's nettle wine next spring.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 20 6:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Finally managed to get back into making wine this year with a couple of gallons of blackberry.

Several gallons of mead is also on the go and I could do with making some more but it seems to take ages to finish fermenting.

tahir



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 20 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bloody hell TD, how the blinking hell are you and Bugs?

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 20 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Both well, busy doing not much in a quiet corner of the country. You? Got your veg garden sorted yet?

tahir



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 25, 20 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

No chance trees keep us busy

jema
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 20 6:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Welcome back TD

Woke up this morning and our white grapes are bubbling away as if just started, very odd, they had been dead for a week, opened the barrel yesterday and it looked active though, resealed and no bubbles though until this morning.
So does not fit with a poor seal, and why so active now?

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 20 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

cool temp so it took a while for yeast numbers to build up?

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