How many wine makers do we have here?

[kuntrygirl]

really? I'm not bias i have made wine with it before and it can be used if its fresh enough I'm guessing
but you need to be careful with bread yeast and making wine, cause it can grow some dangerous things..


i made some Ribenna [like vimto] wine once lol i used 1 ltr of juice cordial and 1kg sugar and bread yeast, took weeks to finish fermenting..

it was ok when finished look nice.. i couldn't of drank more than a mouthful of it not my thing, but I'm guessing the guys when i went filming didn't complain..

it tasted clean.. but just a little..... yeasty? 

not like the special stuff at all. don't think it were any where Near 2% vol  but when i make any wine now i use nice yeast for specific jobs,
that's what its bread for lol {no pun intended}

 
yeast eat sugar, burps co2, and poops Alcohol but Alcohol kills yeast when it gets to a high of a concentration,
normally around 9-11% it starts killing it off... that's if its a genuine brewing yeast & bread yeast wont get past 3% that's if your super lucky.

but you can also get super tolerant yeast that can hold out to 21%+ if feed enough nutriants..
xox
site is nrly finshed  here

can some please add 1 of everything to a basket for me and see if it works?
i cant get to add anything as its my paypal account.
it add 1st thing then boots me out and shows my account page?
xox

Did the same thing to me.

 

[IanJones]

My strawberry wine made lastnight

I'm putting in a 40 pint barrel of yellow plum & a 5 lt rose today

Update
Well there all fermenting now. Taken me ages to perp18 kg of plums hands are sore now!

I dont belive they used yeast for bread in biblical times? Hence the reason for unlevaned bread like chapattie and flat bread? We only started using dried yeast a few hundreds years ago.
The makers of beer an wine used natural yeast in the air and on the unwashed fruit or sprouted wheat & barley so not needing extra yeast. but their process where much longer so us adding yeast speeds this procces up by weeks rather than months.


People found diffrenty strains of yeast and grew itfor cooler months when the natural yeast were harder to find in the air.

 

[Kassaundra]

I'm still gathering my supplies, but hope to have everything in place by the time my raspberries are due to harvest (another two ish months.)

 

[kuntrygirl]

My strawberry wine made lastnight

I'm putting in a 40 pint barrel of yellow plum & a 5 lt rose today

Update
Well there all fermenting now. Taken me ages to perp18 kg of plums hands are sore now!

I dont belive they used yeast for bread in biblical times? Hence the reason for unlevaned bread like chapattie and flat bread? We only started using dried yeast a few hundreds years ago.
The makers of beer an wine used natural yeast in the air and on the unwashed fruit or sprouted wheat & barley so not needing extra yeast. but their process where much longer so us adding yeast speeds this procces up by weeks rather than months.


People found diffrenty strains of yeast and grew itfor cooler months when the natural yeast were harder to find in the air.

Looking good.

I will be picking up some wine yeast today. I want to use that in my strawberry wine. I was able to score a flat of strawberries for only $10.00. Was my lucky day when I walked into the fruit stand.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I'm still gathering my supplies, but hope to have everything in place by the time my raspberries are due to harvest (another two ish months.)

I'm excited for you.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Hey, I have another question for conversation. Let's talk about storing your wine. Where do you store it? How do you store it? What temps are best for storage? Can you store in the fridge until forever? Does wine ever go bad? If so, what causes wine to go bad?

 

[kuntrygirl]

Oh and I bought the wine yeast. So, I'll use this from here on out. It's called Lalvin (GMO and Gluten Free) K1-V1116. I went in the store and he asked me what kind of wine I was making and I told him Strawberry, so he went to the back and got this particular yeast. Do you use different types of wine yeast depending on what type of wine you are making? Now I'm REALLY confused.

http://www.lalvinyeast.com/strains.asp

 

[Kassaundra]

From the reading I have done it seems so, different yeasts for different wines and there are LOTS of yeast strains.

Okay I had a thought today while planting some new plants. I have read where people make wines out of green plants and flowers, so as I was planting my new chocolate mint plant and smelling the strong york pepermint patty smell I was thinking I wonder if this would make a good tasting wine .............................................................. no good can come from this chocolate mint wine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol lol lol

 

[kuntrygirl]

From the reading I have done it seems so, different yeasts for different wines and there are LOTS of yeast strains.

Okay I had a thought today while planting some new plants.  I have read where people make wines out of green plants and flowers, so as I was planting my new chocolate mint plant and smelling the strong york pepermint patty smell I was thinking I wonder if this would make a good tasting wine .............................................................. no good can come from this chocolate mint wine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    lol lol lol

 

[ladyrsanti]

I unearthed my dandelion wine today, that I started last April. It's interesting, I'll say that. It's clear, fairly dry and VERY strong. Someone said wine can't go above 18%. This has to be 50%, lol. It's tasty though and has lingering notes of herbs. I'll have to mix it with something because I simply can't drink wine that strong. It's a sipper. I can't even drink what's in that glass straight, maybe with an ice cube.