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I think the pectin may have something to do with it. When i took my initial hydrometer reading, it was actually a fair bit higher than the amount of sugar in the jam should have caused it to go to, not quite 20 marks more, but certainly at least 10.

Hey everyone! I just came back from a 2 week visit to my parents to my strawberry jam wine. It's had some ups and downs and troubles with online calculators but it's finally ready to bottle. I took a sample and taste tested it, rather dry. Here's the thing, the hydrometer reads 1.020...

Where's my arm gone?!?

Well... just had my very first homebrew disaster... Used a recipe i have done many a time before - a very simple strawberry wine made from cheap supermarket jam. Before i get into the gory details here was my method: In a large bowl, scoop out 6 jars of the cheapest strawberry jam you can...

PS - if any more veteran winemakers would like to look at my recipe and maybe refine it or just explain it in better terms, maybe correct a few mistakes a may have made, it would probably be better for beginners to use :D

now, a few recipes i have used/seen: Grapefruit and Pineapple (1l of each) Prune (1l prune, 1l red grape) Cherry (500ml + 1500ml water boiled in pan) of cherry concentrate - 2tsp nutrient) elderflower (500ml of elderflower cordial + 1500ml water) - 3tsp nutrient Tropical (2l of cartons of...

Having started winemaking a while ago, i have settled on (for now) using a very basic recipe which makes nice if simple wines. i have given it to friends and family who have used it with different juices and they have all (apart from one - which i will explain later) been a great success...

Actually tasted a bit of the prune while i was racking it. Oddly enough tastes like a Cream Sherry, very nice! If you want to give it a go, it was 1 litre of Prune juice, and 1 litre of red grape. Boil the juice with 1kg of sugar and a couple of teabags instead of tannin (Tea flavor is actually...

Hey there! I have been making a bunch of "unusual" wines recently. These are the flavors I have on the go: Banana Kiwi Cherry Prune Elderflower Tropical Now - before racking, 2 of these wines were amazingly clear - the Banana and Kiwi, You could just about read print through them. So...