Jim's Beer Kit

Ah cheers, didn't realise that re. the nut.

Good point re. laying them down too, need to get a cheap wine rack!

Yeah I've only had a few sips, but it tastes pretty good to me. Will probably open a not entirely full
bottle later.

I think it should be ~12%

Just bottled the damson wine today, was crystal clear



The automatic bottle filler seemed to work pretty well too, to switch between bottles

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1518633685964271616 Sounds like the beer is freeze distilled, kegged and then the pub uses somthing to mix the freeze distilled beer with water during dispense I think. Just noticed this too - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/concentrated-beer-cutting-...

I found it from this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OPneDvloUk he seemed to say it was pretty good

(the Buon Vino Super Automatic Bottle Filler)

Just ordered some green bottles, corks and a corker

Planning on bottling soon I think.

I also got a fancy little device that auto-stops filling the bottle via a siphon.

Very cool project! I'm curious how much the wooden barrels of say the Marston's burton union system affect the taste of pedigree. Been a little while since I've had pedigree now. You might find this interesting - https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/IdBjsaZjWz/ the firestone union thing doesn't rea...

What size batches are you making with that? It's 25l right?

I've got an Atago PAL-1 digital refractometer I bought from fleabay. And just calibrate with distilled
water.

That aliexpress one looks very interesting esp. price wise.

Yeah still wine corks. In batches of 100 or so.

I haven't found anywhere so far selling different grades of natural corks, such as
some overseas sites like - https://www.widgetco.com/natural-wine-corks

Can anyone recommend any places that sell natural corks in small
quantities, in different grades in the UK?

It sounds like there are different grades, ranging to 'flor' quality I think?

I'm just wondering when to remove the damsons, the wine is still at 1.050 after approx 7 days, I think I should probably leave them in till it gets closer to 1.000?

Edit : https://www.winemakingtalk.com/threads/ ... ust.15302/ kind of confirms that, they say 1.025

Pretty good, the blow off tube is making the water in a pan bubble around every few seconds or so. I just had a little taste, definitely alcoholic now, but with lots of sweetness left. Gonna try and swirl it more often, to impart more colour/flavour from the must. (Not exactly sure what colour damso...

Ah didn't know that re. clearing heh, I added 2tsp of pectolase / gal iirc. Fingers crossed it helps!

I'm preparing to do lots of transferring to different demijohns after fermentation too.

The stones can make it very bitter apparently and almond like. I think because they've
got cyanide compounds in

I'm following this recipe - https://homebrewanswers.com/damson-wine-recipe/ I picked around 5kg of damsons, the OG was 1.090 with the sugar, which I assume the damsons will boost up a little. https://www.anfractuosity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_8489-scaled.jpg I just bought some demijohns to...