Re: Wine kit woes
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:15 pm
Which annual lecture is this?MKG wrote:I can see I'm going to have to do my annual lecture againBrewtrog wrote:... It's a mix of metabisulphate and potassium sorbate - the sulphate kills most the yeast, the sorbate stops the rest from reproducing....
Too true. IIRC in "ye olde days" dodgy merchants on our side of the channel used to cut imported French wine with elderberry, to make it cheaper and better tasting. As a side note I've heard someone call the elderberry the English grape.MKG wrote:Maggie, a good elderberry can hold its head up to any wine at all.