After letting the juice rest for around 20h I added the yeast. I’ve used this stuff before and it gave good results. It’s a high alcohol tolerance strain, so will tend to ferment to a higher ABV than I want. I’ll check in a few more days and stop the fermentation at 8% ABV or …
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Making Perry – Part 1
I had access to a tree full of pears for a weekend. With the help of Meagen, we picked two large bags of pears of various ripeness – around 25kg I’d later come to know. I don’t actually like pears as a fruit, so I’d already panned to make perry from them. I’ve done this …
X-Ray Monday
Now that the X-Ray systems are working well in the lab,, I can take X-Ray images of various things. I’ve been posting a few to twitter over the last few months with #hashtags like #xraymylunch #xraysaremagic and xraystuffinmylab for people to try to identify. This is the first I’ve posted here. The answer is under …
Oak Leaf Wine. Part Two
Oak Leaf wine fermenting. It’ll sit and bubble and froth like this for about 4-6 weeks, before it is siphoned off into a clean demijohn to clear and mature.
Oak leaf wine. Part one.
I’m not quite sure where I can upon the idea of Oak Leaf wine, but after the success last year with Dandelion wine, it seemed a fun idea to brew with oak leaves. There are a few recipes floating around the ‘net and published in wine making books, I decided to use this “young oak leaf” …