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Bring it on Tom, be good to hear how you go. I will do the potato one soon.

I’m running behind but will start batch soon, told my girl about it and she insists this is next. Think I will add some star anise to some finished tea wine as well, just to see what happens. Please keep us updated.

Thanks for the answer. I have passed it on. My friend has started searching websites for a better delivery system to help out his partner. While medical marijuana has just been legalised here, apparently getting a prescription for anything is ridiculously impossible. This is truly an amazing...

This is a quick question for the folks living in California, Colorado and Canada, have you ever tried making Marijuana Wine? The reason for the question is that a friend, whose wife is about to undergo chemo asked me if it was possible, with the thought of helping her with nausea and appetite...

Hey Tom and Red, Apparently no stuff up in the end, recently had a crack at Tea Wine and made more than a few errors in that one too, but amazingly it looks like being ok as well, going to run out of luck sooner or later. The neighbours? Oh well I’ve got a lot more of them. Here is what...

Finishing off my attempt at Tea Wine, as usual made a few mistakes along the way. Mainly misjudged sugar quantity and had to split the batch and add more tea solution to the must to bring it down to something manageable. 10 litres of it had rosella and Granny Smith apple juice added and was...

..and just when you thought the story was finished!! Took some of the wine down to the local HBS as they had been subjected to my previous failures. The wine ended up with rave reviews, one chap who tasted it asked why I hadn’t entered it in the local agricultural show, as he thought it may have...

I did some more reading on an Aussie brew site and there was talk about adding an enzyme to break down the starch to usable sugars, other advice was around time and this occurring naturally. Again if I can find the link, I will share it. It is really interesting what you are doing and learning...

I know that I am taking the micky a little, however, seeing the wine is made essentially with porridge and bananas could you safely label this as a breakfast wine??

I will wait with baited breath.

Thanks for being so gentle with me, it is my first time using the stuff and quite frankly there us nothing else available in my local stores. One store said they only keep this clearing agent because it is vegan friendly. I would kill for something like sparkaloid

My lord that was funny, thankfully my hugs and kisses would kill me if I ever tried to use her NutriBullet like that otherwise that could well have been me dodging boiling clay. Thanks for sharing.

Has anyone mixed bentonite before it was needed? I have pushed cling wrap on to the surface to seal out air and put it in the fridge. Can I still use it after I mix some wine into it from and ready for the batch.

Is it just the citrus note that makes it different?

Is the Worcester Sauce smell still there?

Hopefully it will add that creaminess that the whiskey makers talk about and take your banana wine to a different place.

Ok I did the final sg tonight and I believe the ferment has finally stopped. I did however use DAF to rekick the ferment a few days ago. I am now worried about nasties kicking in and buggering up what is there. However, I added a sprinkle of tartaric acid to the wine used to check the sg...

Thanks for the input, i believe there is way forward from here. I will have to split the remaining batch again, it is 28 litres and i did a stupid thing, trying to help the yeast keep processing. The end result is the sg has started moving down again. So hopefully the residual sugar will drop...

I’ve got a couple of versions of sweet iced tea wine going at the moment and one looks like it will finish with residual sweetness, ie EC118 just can’t process anymore sugar. It tastes like it needs acid to balance it out some, what would the likely outcome be if I add a bottle of lemon juice...

This should be interesting, made some stuff ups but will soldier on to see what happens.