Wine Making

[gettin2dizzy]

Another G2D boozey thread I'm afraid.


Just added the stabiliser & finings to a youngs cabernet kit. Tested it of course; and it tasted like very weak vodka and juice, what the hell?!

[dizzyblonde]

So, did you not do it the traditional way then?
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hope you washed your feet:-)

[gettin2dizzy]

Wow! That looks fun!

I will try it properly one day - i promise :) It's my first batch though.

[Ed]

Nothing's wrong, it's just very very young. You need to leave it a while! Don't be impatient!!!

[Paws]

:drink::smt030

[gettin2dizzy]

Nothing's wrong, it's just very very young. You need to leave it a while! Don't be impatient!!!
I'm very very young too. That means I'm undeniably impatient! ;)

[Welsh_Wizard]

just go in the nectar wine club like me.. they send 12 bottles every 3months for £35, loads of free gifts and other bumff too. Well worth it..

[dizzyblonde]

just be careful with the homebrew stuff, it can be very bad for your health. great at the time, and very enjoyable.

My godfather, I recall, from when I was younger, always had the old homebrew on the go. but always suffered from kidney stones for years. It came up in conversation once, perhaps with a doctor or whatever, and they found the reason why he was always ill....it was the brew!!

[jimmy__riddle]

just be careful with the homebrew stuff, it can be very bad for your health. great at the time, and very enjoyable.

My godfather, I recall, from when I was younger, always had the old homebrew on the go. but always suffered from kidney stones for years. It came up in conversation once, perhaps with a doctor or whatever, and they found the reason why he was always ill....it was the brew!!

how did they know it was the brew?

I dont see what can be so bad about drinking homebrew, its just fermented fruit. its things which have had lots of stuff added to it like preservatives i'd be worried about.

[dizzyblonde]

Because he stopped making loads of homebrew, and would you know it, the stones went too

[gettin2dizzy]

Kidney stones are normally the result of dehydration. Perhaps he wasn't drinking enough ;)

[jimmy__riddle]

i was told it helps get rid of kidney stones.

[gettin2dizzy]

i was told it helps get rid of kidney stones.I'm taking this as gospel :thumbsup:

[Tim in Belgium]

just be careful with the homebrew stuff, it can be very bad for your health. great at the time, and very enjoyable.

My godfather, I recall, from when I was younger, always had the old homebrew on the go. but always suffered from kidney stones for years. It came up in conversation once, perhaps with a doctor or whatever, and they found the reason why he was always ill....it was the brew!!

My Grandpa used to have a pint of home brew for lunch, and another in the evening every day and is still going strong at 89! He's just given away the home brew kit to my cousin because he's about to move and won't have room for it. He's still driving, and has just had laser eye surgery so he doesn't wear glasses anymore. Go for it Grandad!

PS My he's still having his two pints a day, although sometimes it's a glass of red wine in the evening. And he's full of great stories, including making his own motorbike in WWII from two different ones (I think a big sidevalve engine into an italian chassis) and then coming under fire from the germans whilst on it returning from the dentist (somewhere in Italy or northern Africa).

[dizzyblonde]

Oh, I ain't dissin the old homebrew, my dad used to make Jeddah gin, he wroked in saudi for many years and became rather a good secret brewer of almost fatal brews:smt077
Jeddha gin...lol 5 of everything if i remember
Potatoes
Grapefruit
limes
lemons
oranges etc etc

It was fooooookin lethal;)

I only say what I've known, my godfather wasn't the only one I've known to have unhealthy effects of long years of homebrew( it could be just that they drank in latge quantities)....apart from hangovers;)

[Tim in Belgium]

So how did your dad distill the Jeddah? Sounds like a homebrew adventure.

[dizzyblonde]

So how did your dad distill the Jeddah? Sounds like a homebrew adventure.

I remember him ( I was quite young) sitting in front of the gas fire with a giant vat of bubbly swamp type stuff for a while, and after that, it used to sit next to the boiler, in the kitchen, where he could keep an eye, and my mum would do her nut!!!! with a flexi pipe into a milk bottle of water....it used to bubble like hell:smt023When the whole process was done it came out clear as a bell.
I'd have to ask him properly for his secret, but apparently, if you worked in saudi at that time or for the years that followed, it wasn't that secret:wink:, and all those that know how its done say its absolute rocket fuel
We found some that was in the garage for a few years and I remember my dad and grandad getting absolutly trollied one afternoon on it:cool: