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Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
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Location: Dordogne

Posted: Fri Jun 05, 15 3:07 pm Post subject:
Well, Ive started the elderflower cordial, and Ive just made Elderflower champagne. Ill be bottling it into screw top glass wine bottles, so hopefully, this will be successful.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9887
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sat Jun 06, 15 12:04 pm Post subject:
I'd never bottle elderflower champagne in glass bottles.

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
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Location: Dordogne

Posted: Sat Jun 06, 15 2:03 pm Post subject:
In case of explosions?

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sat Jun 06, 15 3:55 pm Post subject:

Lorrainelovesplants wrote:

In case of explosions?

absolutely - it isn't that nice if a plastic bottle goes.. glass is lethal

and you can feel how tight a plastic bottle is and move it to the fridge/ let some pressure off before explosions

seriously, I wouldn't use glass

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
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Location: Dordogne

Posted: Sat Jun 06, 15 5:24 pm Post subject:
No, I know. Im being flippant. Ive started bottle conditioning my cider in glass bottles. It took a lot of experimentation before we got bombproof!

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8950
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 20 9:36 am Post subject:
I have just made a batch of Elderflower cordial using Nicky CiG 's recipe this time..for me I found it sweeter than I expected..I must have used a scaled down version of Minamoo's recipe before. Looking at all the recipes I could see online, the sugar/water proportions vary greatly. What do others use?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 20 10:32 am Post subject:
Still got loads from last year so haven’t made any. I really need to settle on a recipe

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46245
Location: yes

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 20 1:42 pm Post subject:
re glass and fermenting a chum of mine took out his room at cambridge with several demijohns of beer double first but no sense

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8950
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 20 4:11 pm Post subject:

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Mon Jun 08, 20 7:15 am Post subject:
My MIL managed to 'repaint' the inside of a cupboard with bramble wine she had plugged lightly with cotton wool instead of an air lock as she didn't have a spare one. Not as bad, but it went off in the middle of the night, so her and FIL had to spend half the night clearing up.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 20 9:50 am Post subject:

gz wrote:

I have just made a batch of Elderflower cordial using Nicky CiG 's recipe this time..for me I found it sweeter than I expected..I must have used a scaled down version of Minamoo's recipe before.
Looking at all the recipes I could see online, the sugar/water proportions vary greatly.
What do others use?

I find that generally with cordial recipes, Rhubarb is the same and you risk losing the unique flavour and ending up with a generic sweet syrup.

Personally its elderflower champagne all the way for me, the alcohol content is pretty low so I can have it with breakfast, whilst driving, operating machinery, or give it to kids etc.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 20 9:54 am Post subject:
Do the kids drive or operate machinery once they've had it?

Jonnyboy

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Location: under some rain.

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 20 9:59 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Do the kids drive or operate machinery once they've had it?

well, they think they can.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 20 10:08 am Post subject:
Excellent, I've always found confidence is key when driving or operating machinery

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8950
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 20 11:03 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

gz wrote:

I have done the maths, compared all the recipes' sugar:water ratios and included the HMSO recipes..I have just started an Elderflower and Rose cordial, with reference to the Minamoo and River Cottage recipes. Hopefully this will retain the flavour over the sweetness

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