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Phil L wrote:
:: Mike Lyle wrote: ::::: ::::: If you add a spoonfull of yeast it will also make a decent wine! ::::: (if you take away 7lbs of the sugar!) :::: :::: Are you KIDDING? 90, read "ninety", like dude you mean, XC, :::: figures nine-uh zero I say again nine-uh zero, naw deg, neunzig, :::: quatre-vingts-dix, novanta, heads of elderflowers for two gallons :::: of wine? That will smell like three years' worth of cat pee :::: soaked into the carpet. About a pint of stripped elderflowers :::: will flavour and aromatise a gallon of strong sweet white wine :::: for dessert use enough to blow your socks off; I'd use max two When you say stripped, how do you get to use *just* the tiny white petals? I've only ever made it once and it was many moons ago, IIRC the recipe book said to freeze the heads in a poly bag overnight and then shake the petals off the following day, you're not using the little stalks too are you? - I'm sure I ended up with about a pint from a carrier bag full, but white petals only - no greenery! :::: heads for a gallon of ordinary grape, whitecurrant, or :::: gooseberry wine, and I wouldn't leave them in very long, either. :::: You don't apply the flowers till _after_ the primary :::: fermentation, whose bubbling would blow away most of the aroma: :::: pop them in there in a nylon stocking with a handful of :::: sterilized marbles (I know mine are.) :::: And your stockings? :::: And modern preserving sugar is, indeed, inadvisable: the stuff :::: contains not so much citric acid as, if me soaked old grey cells :::: do not deceive me, pectin -- a sore destroyer of your wine's :::: clarity, and general irrelevancy to the domestic booze process. It's good for jam though, pectin helps the setting of preserves, making it next to useless for brewing. :::: Use plain old granulated cheapest: it's pure unwholesome :::: C6H22O11 or something. Check out my surname: we know this kind :::: of shit in our family.. ....Hmmm! My mate's last name is Armstrong but he hasn't been to the moon. :-p -- If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs. |
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