Home brew

[Chris Sheppard]

out of curiosity, how do you make wine out of birch?

 

Can't remember exact quantities of ingredients but pretty much it's a case of boiling up the sap, dissolving sugar into it, letting it cool, add some generic wine yeast and then sit it in a demijohn for a while. bottle it up once finished fermenting, wait a few weeks and enjoy

 

I did 2 batches of 5 litres and made one with more sugar - ended up with one niceely sweet and the other medium(ish).

 

There's a thread I started on here somewhere. EDIT: Here - http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/lounge/41427-birch-sap-wine.html

[breffni]

I got the London pride kit which turned out alright but I really want to do it from scratch. Just got to clear out the shed and make some space

 

 

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[bobh]

Just started home brewing, mainly to save having to go to the shops all the time for beer.

I drink ale and my O/H drinks lager so we have 2 sets of everything. Did the first brew 4 weeks ago, and another today

The lager is Caxtons, seems to be shaping up nicely, will be leaving it another week or so before we start it.

For the ale I went for Woodfordes Wherry, first brew seemed a bit wishy washy on early tasting so I'm dry hopping this batch to try and get a hoppier flavour. Again will start drinking properly in about a week or so.

Will update this in a few weeks.

[Amelanchier]

Just started home brewing, mainly to save having to go to the shops all the time for beer.

I drink ale and my O/H drinks lager so we have 2 sets of everything. Did the first brew 4 weeks ago, and another today

The lager is Caxtons, seems to be shaping up nicely, will be leaving it another week or so before we start it.

For the ale I went for Woodfordes Wherry, first brew seemed a bit wishy washy on early tasting so I'm dry hopping this batch to try and get a hoppier flavour. Again will start drinking properly in about a week or so.

Will update this in a few weeks.

 

You want to use less water in the Wherry kit and add some extra malt - for some reason the instructions always come up thin (±2% abv).Try the link: this variation is good through to 4% abv; wherry at the pump is 3.8%.

 

Brew UK Forum • View topic - New Brewers Post: Wherry Enhancement

[bobh]

Thanks for that link Tony

Looks like that might be recipe number 3

Tried any other good kits?

[Amelanchier]

Done a few St. Peters but not done any for a while now. Might sort another wherry plus for Christmas but need to look into finings as it always gives me an epic headache!

[Matthew Arnold]

Let the scrumping commence..... hic 15kg of apples (cookers and eaters) and 3.5kg of Pears on tonights haul.

[mendiplogs]

Here is my homebrew that i filtered out for the first time in 5 years. Both bottles are Old Speckled Hen bottles but which one has the homebrew spirit in it.

 

HI MATT thats chain oil mate :thumbup1:thanks jon

[bobh]

Just started drinking my first batch of homebrew. Woodfordes wherry, been in the cask nearly 8 weeks. As above it could have a bit more body to it but all in all I'm quite happy with it.

 

[muttley9050]

Been drinking nettles beer the last few months, can't wait to get the press working, any day now.