my 'other' lockdown hobby

Ooh err looks good
 
What is it exactly, guessing some form of alcoholic beverage? Would have thought wine but ... orange and pink? :D
 
Cagey75 said:
What is it exactly, guessing some form of alcoholic beverage? Would have thought wine but ... orange and pink? :D.......
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started making wines made from frozen fruit (Tesco etc)
the initial fermentation takes on the colour of the fruit, the it settles down to a 'coloured' Rosé

the best so far is a recipe using 1.4kg of Blueberry and Red Grape concentrate ...drinking one as we speak.... (y)

cost ...£1.50
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Yardbent said:
started making wines made from frozen fruit (Tesco etc)
the initial fermentation takes on the colour of the fruit, the it settles down to a 'coloured' Rosé

the best so far is a recipe using 1.4kg of Blueberry and Red Grape concentrate ...drinking one as we speak.... (y)

cost ...£1.50
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Nice, is it really that cheap though? don't you need a shed load of sugar too?
 
Cagey75 said:
Nice, is it really that cheap though? don't you need a shed load of sugar too?
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think most recipes call for about 1kg sugar per recipe ( for a demijohn) so only about 70p from a supermarket.
 
must stop - must stop - must stop
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Cagey75 said:
Nice, is it really that cheap though? don't you need a shed load of sugar too?...........
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the frozen fruit contains sugar, the red grape wine enhancer contains sugar so actually I only add 600gm or 800gm according to the recipe
and that's for 5L batch ie about 6 bottles
 
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Ooh are we allowed to make this into an open thread?
I’ve tried my hand at cheese making and have a batch of 8 Camemberts that are approaching maturity!
 
My dad used to brew cider at home, until one night there was a large bang and the power went out. Some dads cider had exploded and cut through the electric cable. We had recently had the house rewired and dad was due to recess the cable that weekend. If that wasn't bad enough a few days later a stain appeared a stain appeared on the kitchen ceiling from the cider that had seeped through the carpet and into what turned out to be a peculier void space as the house had been extended.
 
Munch's story reminded me of a similar incident, but on a grander scale. On my grandad's farm there was an orchard, and every year they would prepare a barrel of cider for the use of the temporary help during haymaking and hop-picking (when those activities were less mechanised). Well, one night in 1971, a barrel that had been slowly fermenting for years (because the mechanisation started in the 60's so the cider wasn't drunk so much), a 250-gallon barrel exploded. It probably wasn't full, but there was apparently cider all over the place and the hens, who were in coops not far away, got a fright and a few died (roast chicken for a few days thereafter), and the living ones when let out in the morning proceeded to get falling-over drunk!
 
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