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bingo

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 12:40 pm Post subject: Can you make elderflower ...............
..............Champange in a metal pot?

dpack

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 12:48 pm Post subject:
stainless steel or unchipped enamel are ok for brewing avoid aluminium ,cast iron ,copper etc

bingo

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 1:47 pm Post subject:
O.K.

gil
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 1:53 pm Post subject:
what kind of elderflower champagne do you mean, Bingo ? The sort that is slightly fizzy, not very alcoholic, or the methode champenoise version with a secondary fermentation of the wine in a champagne bottle ?

bingo

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 1:57 pm Post subject:
The easy one

gil
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 2:02 pm Post subject:
You could make that in a food-grade plastic bucket with a lid

bingo

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 5:41 pm Post subject:
Will do, got some wild strawberries if I add them will it muff it up?

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 5:54 pm Post subject:
Can't see why it would. Sounds rather nice to me.

bingo

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 8:16 pm Post subject:
got it on the go without the stawbs. keeping it simple as it's my first go at homebrew. will let you know.

drunk_nik

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 08 11:56 pm Post subject:

bingo wrote:

got it on the go without the stawbs.

keeping it simple as it's my first go at homebrew.

will let you know.

Let us know. Love experimentation, will be glad to hear how you get on, and then maybe try myself.

bingo

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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 08 7:49 am Post subject:
I'm just using the recipe off River Cottage Spring.

cab

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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 08 2:10 pm Post subject:
Strawberries should make it good. I've fermented strawberry jam and water to make strawberryade in the past.

bingo

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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 08 8:22 am Post subject:
The lids of the plasic bottles I decanted my champange into keep popping off.......If i leave the topps off will my drink go flat?

cab

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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 08 8:25 am Post subject:

bingo wrote:

The lids of the plasic bottles I decanted my champange into keep popping off.......If i leave the topps off will my drink go flat?

I'm baffled by that... You used plastic pop bottles, like the ones mass market pop comes in? And they pop off? Are they screwed down?

Generally with the sort of weak alcohol drinks I let some of the fizz out a few times, usually when you ping the bottle with a fingernail and it 'pings' then its time to let a little carbon dioxide out. As long as you eventually leave the bottle top screwed down it'll hold in plenty of fizz.

bingo

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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 08 8:27 am Post subject:
I put it in a 5L water bottle. This is probably why.......

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