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oldwolf

  • Joined Sep 2010
  • Livingston
Brewing like mad!
« on: September 20, 2010, 09:28:57 pm »
Had a busy week so far currently still fermenting on the must I have two gallons of mead and two gallons of elderflower (from dried flowers) and after some foraging over the last couple of days two gallons each of bramble and elderberry wine, happy days, well not for a while yet.
I have also got the promise of a couple of stone of Damsons next saturday in return for a couple of bottles when ready. Yesterday I bottled five gallons of cider.
Sound like a right Jake! ;D ;D ;D ;D
'And the crowd called out for more'

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Brewing like mad!
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2010, 07:55:42 am »
Where's the party? ;D ;D ;D

dizzy1pig

  • Joined Jan 2010
  • Leuchars, Fife
Re: Brewing like mad!
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2010, 09:20:03 am »
Hey your place sounds almost as good as mine...
ijust bottled raspberry and plum wine.
and have fermenting 5 gall cider, plum, beetroot apple and rosehip wine.
have my sloes in the gin and damsons to brambles in a good malt yummy
Then today off to get more sloes some elderberry and anything else can lay my mitts on...
 :wave: ::)

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Brewing like mad!
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2010, 04:58:17 pm »
Do you make this stuff as gifts or for yourselves? I'd love o have a proper go at this but we don't drink very much and, to be honest, we don't have that many friends to give it to. Maybe if we made it, we'd have more friends, though

dizzy1pig

  • Joined Jan 2010
  • Leuchars, Fife
Re: Brewing like mad!
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2010, 07:29:35 pm »
well mine will be be for gifts ..if drinkable..as i do not drink
this is my first go at it so fingers crossed.
and i am trying to use stuff up out of the garden...

oldwolf

  • Joined Sep 2010
  • Livingston
Re: Brewing like mad!
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2010, 11:52:11 am »
 :( :( :( :( My bramble and the elderberry have been infected by the fruit fly and have gone to vinegar,  never mind lots of exotic salad dressings. ;D
The mead and the elderflower are ok.  I'll have to 'clean' the next lot with a campden tablet solution. hey ho
'And the crowd called out for more'

 

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