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we've got:

damson wine on its 3rd rack from last october
elderflower wine started last week with dried elderflowers
gorse wine which was picked yesterday and has just had yeast added this morning

How did the nettle beer turn out?

Also, does anyone know when is nettle season? I'd heard there are two per year...

We've made a brew from both a kit and similar to the simple beer recipe, although we got our recipe from a CJJ Berry homebrewing beer book.

The simple beer recipe was infinitely tastier than the kit!

Cheers - just gotta get out there then!

Thanks for the link, checking it now...

Anyone any experience finding this?

I know it's a largish green leaf and to look near bluebells but that's about it!!!

It's really good with fish and in soups...

Made this last night - but only used broccoli and baby spinach as the greens and didn't use coconut cream, just a bit of extra coconut milk... I reckon next time i'd blanch/quickly steam, for at least couple of minutes, the broccoli before wokking it! Maybe not chinese but definitely oriental. http:...

We've a few flavoured vodkas/gins on the go at home... For blueberries i reckon they should be pricked with a pin, for cherries and raspberries we just halved them, for strawberries we quartered them We then combined the fruit and spirit (used a bit of sugar with the gin) into swingtop bottles (we u...

Had a quick search of the forum but couldn't see anything to do with this...

Has anyone given it a go or would it end up a disaster?

Going to give the apple scrumpy a go today but was already thinking towards the next project!

Thanks

ina wrote:Hiya Sub, and welcome! Is your brother one of the Ishers, too?

Nah don't think so - i'll ask him though...

Hi - just joined.

Was recommended to the website by my brother. Been reading articles on it for a couple of months and noticed that "i'll be glad if i visit the forum" so came on for some more reading!