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Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Watery wine - Help
« Reply #30 on: July 06, 2015, 05:24:25 pm »
Right, I have sampled and its quite dry already. I wouldn't  like it any drier so I guess its campden tablet time.
Need to get another demijohn out and sterlise it first.
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Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Watery wine - Help
« Reply #31 on: September 09, 2015, 12:48:06 pm »
Just bottled it and it isn't half bad.
Thanks Dans  :thumbsup:
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Dans

  • Joined Jun 2012
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Re: Watery wine - Help
« Reply #32 on: November 26, 2015, 01:05:52 am »
So glad it worked for you Sally.

Had an utter baby brain moment after moving and being confronted with liafs of windfall fruit. I made 3 batches of wine with the lower sugar. 15 gallons of wine (plum, apple and pear) that all taste watery!  Hopefully will sweeten up snd hopefully it will stick in my mind now.  8 gallons of spiced apple on the go the old way.

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cloddopper

  • Joined Jun 2013
  • South Wales .Carmarthenshire. SA18
Re: Watery wine - Help
« Reply #33 on: November 28, 2015, 12:17:14 am »
So glad it worked for you Sally.

Had an utter baby brain moment after moving and being confronted with liafs of windfall fruit. I made 3 batches of wine with the lower sugar. 15 gallons of wine (plum, apple and pear) that all taste watery!  Hopefully will sweeten up snd hopefully it will stick in my mind now.  8 gallons of spiced apple on the go the old way.

Dans

Sweet plum or strawberry wine tends to start to develop a sulphurous taste if it is over 30 months old .. so don't go  laying it down as a long term vintage .

 Most other sweet wine also go the same way  ..if you fully ferment them out to as dry as possible , they can often be OK five or so years later if you can leave them alone that long .
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Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Watery wine - Help
« Reply #34 on: November 28, 2015, 09:29:46 am »
I don't think it will last longer than christmas clodhopper  ;)
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Dans

  • Joined Jun 2012
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Re: Watery wine - Help
« Reply #35 on: November 30, 2015, 01:00:07 am »
Most of our wines we drink within a year. Only one that has aged well for us is the elderberry. When we first started brewing we would try keeping a bottle to age but never worked. Now our philosophy is: If it's good drink it up, if it's not then we leave it for a few months and test, do that a few times and if still no good then it's slug bait!

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