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I just scored 5, 4.5 L demijohns for NZ$40 - $8 each is a wicked cool bargain! Additionally one of them is dark brown glass so i can brew Gooze-beet wine or similar and not have to worry about loosing colour

My fig wine smell beautiful - like a desert wine made from botrisized grapes(noble rot)- MKG you say fig wine no good? did yours smell like petrol as well as taste like it?

My peach wine has turned into cloudy rocket fuel - i probably should have actually sterilized it after brewing my carrot whisky (pushed up to around the 20% mark according to my hydrometer and a wash calculator) I think the beach will end up tasting like brandy(ish) once it has mellowed a bit.

I am racking my Pyder (perry cider mix) into a demi-john today - i want to knock this one on its head soon and keep the booze content low for a change!

This will empty my large stainless primary again so i will kick off a load of black berry and elderberry wine!

Yehaaaa - i love the sound of my 'johns bubbling away - i'll have to tune each one to a different note

Well, I did comment on fig wine. Perhaps it would be better to say that MY fig wine was no good - although I can't see, really, how I could improve it. Maybe the Italians know what they're doing when they turn it into grappa.

It did smell very hydrocarbon-ish, yes. It all turned out a really unappetising colour and was, basically, rough as old boots. Maybe if I'd had a very sweet and pale over-flavoured wine to spare, it would have blended well.

So, I hope yours turns out well - if it does, let me into the secret, please

Mike

No worries mike, I gave mine a chemical kick to the head yeasterday and racked it into one of the new johns - I didn't want it getting too insanely high in alcohol. I'll keep you posted of developments on this thread

Oh well - I have to ask. I was hoping someone else would ask.

What's a wee skite? (Well, I already know wee ...)

Mike

In NZ it means to boast or brag(in the nicest possible way of course) to sing ones own praises.
Everywhere else in the world in means summat else But this is NZ and a law unto itself when it come the the English language

Dear Frozen .....

If you want to keep red wines colour but have only clear demijohns, wrap them in a couple of largish, brown, paper bags or keep them in a dark cupboard until they're ready. You probably aready know this but .... just in case .....

Love and Peace
Jim

frozenthunderbolt wrote: Yehaaaa - i love the sound of my 'johns bubbling away - i'll have to tune each one to a different note

So relaxing to just sit and watch them too