Quarantine Wine

[Mike J]

12 hours ago, insite said:

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[jimeve]

Just bottled my ginger beer, not enough beer bottles so had to improvise.  mas sarap. 

Edited June 22, 2020 by jimeve

[insite]

Are those flip tops attaching to regular beer bottles and holding OK ?

The Cran Apple is nor responding very well despite some additional sugar and yeast - this is day 4 and as yet there is very little fermentation by comparison to the apple juice - the bottle says artificial preservative free

[jimeve]

10 minutes ago, insite said:

Are those flip tops attaching to regular beer bottles and holding OK ?

Yeah, they fit perfectly, just a bit fiddly to put on. Need to take them apart and place them on the bottle neck then put the small bolt through and place the tiny screw on.

Wife had to do it for me, kept losing patience.

[Tommy T.]

1 hour ago, insite said:

The Cran Apple is nor responding very well despite some additional sugar and yeast - this is day 4 and as yet there is very little fermentation by comparison to the apple juice - the bottle says artificial preservative free

If that is truly preservative free, it almost sounds like some other contamination problem? Or - scary thought - maybe something leaching from the plastic bottle? 

[insite]

3 hours ago, Tommy T. said:

If that is truly preservative free, it almost sounds like some other contamination problem? Or - scary thought - maybe something leaching from the plastic bottle? 

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I would be hesitant to think it something leaching off the plastic.

It says on the bottle it is free of artificial preservative but perhaps there is some other form of natural preservative that is inhibiting the fermentation.

I have just now returned from SR and today there is no apple juice as the 3.9 L Tree Top - just the Cran Apple which we are discussing.

I ran into my mate who introduced me to this earlier - he said he used a juice he found in GMall that gave him the best results - he could not remember the name off the top of hos head but said he will pass it on as soon as he finds it and I in turn will post it here.

 

 

 

 

[insite]

I believe this may be available but I did not notice it - it comes in 1.5L containers

[insite]

This is it now - I will buy some Wednesday if available to test

[jimeve]

15 hours ago, insite said:

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I would be hesitant to think it something leaching off the plastic.

It says on the bottle it is free of artificial preservative but perhaps there is some other form of natural preservative that is inhibiting the fermentation.

I have just now returned from SR and today there is no apple juice as the 3.9 L Tree Top - just the Cran Apple which we are discussing.

I ran into my mate who introduced me to this earlier - he said he used a juice he found in GMall that gave him the best results - he could not remember the name off the top of hos head but said he will pass it on as soon as he finds it and I in turn will post it here.

 

 

 

 

I used Mott's apple juice, fermented out no problems when I made some apple wine, but could only find 1.9 liter bottles.

[insite]

Finally starting to ferment well - will leave it till Sat to decant and that will be 8 days.