Fast(ish) wine making?

Haize · Fast(ish) wine making?

Hohum, I know nothing at all about wine making, but the searches I've done in the last few minutes seem to imply that it needs to be aged for quite a while. Does anybody know how to make something that would be drinkable by Christmas? Rolling Eyes

Our main ingredient would be blackberries, though anything for a little fun would be nice.

Kathy

The only way I've found to make a quick wine is by using a kit. I used CWE country classic, apple, also gooseberry. It takes about 6 weeks but I left mine for longer. I also didn't use any Campden tablets, stabiliser or fining gel in it as per instructions. Didn't like the thought of all the additives and the fining gel is not vegetarian. I also used double the amount of sugar as the chap in the home brew shop said it was a bit "watery". The other modification I made was to replace 1 ltre of the water with pure grapejuice for extra body. This was my first attempt at winemaking and worked rather well, its all drunk now! Laughing

I'm not sure if theres a quick ferment way just using berries but if you want to try a kit for the first time you can get the CWE kits online. Let me know if you need anymore info. Smile

mrutty

I say go with kits for a year. They are lots of brewing/wine making recipes that I wouldn't pee in. Worth talking to a Ali as she's thinking of having a brewing/wine making weekend and I'm sure that whilst it's illegal to sell the end product without the right paperwork there could well be a lot of free samples.

Haize

Ooh, this wasn't marked as having a new message, so I missed Kathy's response till now.

Anyway, thanks both, will consult OH, he's the nominated alcohol production manager of our house Laughing

mrutty

http://www.homebrewshop.co.uk/ In case you need stuff