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Produce => Drink .... => Topic started by: jethro on October 28, 2003, 14:12:37
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Is it just me doing something right for once or do other peole get the same result? tell me more i hear you cry OK i will. I brew blackberry wine every year, about 4 gallon, if i leave it for a year ( hard to do sometimes ;)) and open it when the mother plant is in flower the wine changes to sparkling wine ??? . Tastes great ;D just like pop but very strong, it also gets you drunk from the feet upwards :-/ not bad till you try to walk :o and fall flat on your face ::) , quite embarasing when you have guests :-[ .
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I'll try my best to leave a gallon of mine to see if the same happens .I've never had it happen before though. I made some RoseHip wine this time have you tried it?
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Hi Budgiebreeeder, tried it ??? i've still got the hangover from last year :-[ :-X . I brew all types of wine ranging from carrot whiskey to oak leaf ;) the house looks like an off licence, must try to get a cellar ??? .I've got a load of books on the subject, one even gives a recipe for birch sap wine :-/ , not tried that one yet as you have to attach the demi john to the tree :-/.
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Hi Jethro.Have you read the book Food for Free it sounds like your type.Dont drink much myself just the odd one (three five seven nine)
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Hi BB, where will you find this book? don't say a book shop pleeeeeeeease ;) . My wife works in one and she needs the author name, etc. she's a demanding woman at times ::) .
Why do you drink in odd numbers? me myself and i drink till we can't feel our legs, body, eyes, brain ( although the last one hasn't got much in it ) silly really me being diabetic and all, wife says i've got a death wish :-/ who me? never.
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just looked on Amazon:
author is Richard Mabey
and ISBN is 0002201593
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Hi rdak, cheers that'll keep the little wife happy ( for once ) ;D.
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Yes thats the one.I think there is another don't know the author or owt as i lent it to someone a few years ago and never got it back.ce la vie.
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Never lend books etc to anyone, unless there family and then just to the ones you know ;D . We have at the last count 5,000 books in the house (looks like a library) and still the wife wants more >:( :-/, will have to build an extension before long.
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I have never had a go at making my own vino. Is it really good? You do hear stories about peoples concoctions (is that how you spell that word ???) Sparkling blackberry champers sounds divine. I have only once gotten drunk from the feet up and that was on rough Turkish gin - not good, not good at all ;)
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Hi EJ, will send you some if it's not gone by then ;D :-[ . You must brew your own, the warm feeling you get from the feet upwards is really funny :D ;) seeing people trying to walk and eventually crawling to the toilet ;D :D ;) is out of this world.
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Pity you didn't collect some sloes and start off with some sloe gin EJ i'm nearly sure the recipe is on the site.Thats about the easiest and good to start you off.Try the car-boots for equipment if you do fancy starting.there is always some there cheap and you have to sterilise anyway.
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Hiya BB, got the sloe gin brewing nicely in the larder. Can I wait until the new year before sampling ;D.
Jethro, I shall look forward to it! ;D
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This is me being thick again ??? but why brew sloe gin when you have to put gin in ??? seems like a waste of time, gin should be drunk in Shanghai on a warm summers evening on the beach with the sun going down ;D, and after a few it will happen to you also, going down i mean.
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Cough........ sloe gin is nectar from the Gods! On a cold winters night, a glass of sloe gin, or 2 or 3.........or 10! Lovely stuff, can't beat it. ;D
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On a recent trip home to Devon I sampled last years sloe gin and last years sloe vodka! Both made in the same way really, but WOW did the Voddy have a kick! Both were divine, come on New Years day, my hairy dog will be a big glug of the stuff! ;D
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I can't wait to open my sloe gin and have a wee sample! If you are ever this way Jethro, bring your blackberry champers and we can sample eachothers brews! :D
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No problemo EJ, but don't blame me if you can't feel your legs for 2 weeks ;D .
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Hi Jethro
Any chance of your recipe for Blackberry wine then? Feel the need to start planning this one now, having read all these comments!
Ta
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another good book is "Wild Food" by Roger Phillips. Many good wine recipes there including Birch Sap wine.
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Oh dear - this thread has just reminded me that there is a demmy john in the cupboard with blackberry wine in it - that we started off in September ....2005!
Does anyone think it will be drinkable? :(
I'm dreading going to look ..... think this is one of those boys jobs for hubby to take care of!
Joolieeee
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Should be lovely after racking ...
good luck
Derek :)
PS were these Sherbourne Fields blackberries ... ?
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Hi Derek
Yes, from sherbourne allotment - as you know us up the top have hedgerows between the plots, and ours is a full row of wonderful fat blackberries
shame though, as it's not as open and friendly as down in your patch!
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Well you are welcome to pop down and say hello, I am plot 108, go down the footpath behind the site shed (by the chippings) until you get to a path to the left. I am second gate on the left ... (with the hedge arch ...)
I am there most Saturday mornings till 12, and other times as convenient.
Derek :)