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VANILLA WINE
A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ORANGE WINE 2020 Ben's Adventures in Wine Making. Damson Wine 2020 - Second Bottle (4), 19th-20th May 2021. Crab Apple Wine 2020 - First Bottle (1), 16th May 2021. Xmas Tutti Fruti 2019 (C2), 15th May 2021. Rhubarb Wine 2021 - The Making Of Strawberry Wine 2018 - Fifth Bottle (3), 14th May 2021. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: QUINCE WINE I started making the wine on the evening of 18th October. Claire helped by cutting up the first 10 quinces for me to grate (using the food processor) before she retired to have a bath. I put these in 4 pints of water, brought it to the boil and boiled it for 15 minutes whilst I cut up the remaining 10 quinces, ready for grating. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: MAGNOLIA PETAL WINE I measured six pints of petals (those in the freezer turned brown on defrosting) and put them in our large pan with the thinly peeled peel of two lemons and an orange. I put in 2 lbs 12 oz of sugar and 7 pints or water, brought this to the boil (a long process) and let it simmer for 20 minutes. Meantime, I squeezed the lemons and orange and put BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: APPLE WINE AND APPLE I washed the apples, cut them into eight pieces each and whizzed them through the food processor on the 'slice' attachment. Next I minced 1 lb of sultanas, again using the food processor, and put all this into the bucket along with 3 lbs sugar. I boiled 6 ½ pints of water and poured this over, filling the kitchen with an apple scent. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: JASMINE TEA WINE It being the end of October and with me not having made any wine so far this month, I started the wine this morning, 29th October. This time I have used 1 ¼ oz of tea (which was 15 tea bags, ripped open and shaken out), 3 oranges (just the juice), 1 lb minced sultanas and 2 ½ lbs of sugar. I boiled 2 ½ pints of water and poured this over the tea in my bucket. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: XMAS TUTTI FRUTI 2019 (C2 This blog is a record of the wine that I make and drink. Each flavour made and each bottle drunk will appear here. You may come to the conclusion that, on the whole, I should be drinking less. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING Rhubarb Wine 2020 - First Bottle (B4), 8 May 2021. The brown sugar I used when making this rhubarb wine has definitely had an effect. There is no hint of pink to this wine - it is instead a golden yellow. Its taste has a burnt element to it, but not in an unpleasant way. This is an unusual rhubarb wine but I think one that is rather good. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL WINE 2017 Rose Petal Wine 2017 - Sixth Bottle (A5), 26th-27th May 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: MAY 2021 I downed this bottle (or more than my fair share of it) on Friday night in a state of existential glumness. Earlier in the day I had seen the doctor who told me to eat more (not a terrible instruction) but there may be a (not particularly serious) internal issue, and he has prescribed me pills (the potential side effects of which sound horrific).I am 50 (soon to be 51).VANILLA WINE
A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ORANGE WINE 2020 Ben's Adventures in Wine Making. Damson Wine 2020 - Second Bottle (4), 19th-20th May 2021. Crab Apple Wine 2020 - First Bottle (1), 16th May 2021. Xmas Tutti Fruti 2019 (C2), 15th May 2021. Rhubarb Wine 2021 - The Making Of Strawberry Wine 2018 - Fifth Bottle (3), 14th May 2021. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: QUINCE WINE I started making the wine on the evening of 18th October. Claire helped by cutting up the first 10 quinces for me to grate (using the food processor) before she retired to have a bath. I put these in 4 pints of water, brought it to the boil and boiled it for 15 minutes whilst I cut up the remaining 10 quinces, ready for grating. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: MAGNOLIA PETAL WINE I measured six pints of petals (those in the freezer turned brown on defrosting) and put them in our large pan with the thinly peeled peel of two lemons and an orange. I put in 2 lbs 12 oz of sugar and 7 pints or water, brought this to the boil (a long process) and let it simmer for 20 minutes. Meantime, I squeezed the lemons and orange and put BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: APPLE WINE AND APPLE I washed the apples, cut them into eight pieces each and whizzed them through the food processor on the 'slice' attachment. Next I minced 1 lb of sultanas, again using the food processor, and put all this into the bucket along with 3 lbs sugar. I boiled 6 ½ pints of water and poured this over, filling the kitchen with an apple scent. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: JASMINE TEA WINE It being the end of October and with me not having made any wine so far this month, I started the wine this morning, 29th October. This time I have used 1 ¼ oz of tea (which was 15 tea bags, ripped open and shaken out), 3 oranges (just the juice), 1 lb minced sultanas and 2 ½ lbs of sugar. I boiled 2 ½ pints of water and poured this over the tea in my bucket. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: XMAS TUTTI FRUTI 2019 (C2 This blog is a record of the wine that I make and drink. Each flavour made and each bottle drunk will appear here. You may come to the conclusion that, on the whole, I should be drinking less. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL WINE 2017 Claire said of this bottle that there is a decent flavour struggling to make its way through. I think this is the very definition of a mid-week bottle: drinkable without being delicious, with a BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: KIWI FRUIT WINE Ben's Adventures in Wine Making. Rose Petal and Orange Wine 2019 - Fourth Bottle (1), 22nd May 2021. Nectarine Wine - Final Bottle (3), December 2020 - 21st May 2021. Orange Wine 2020 - Third Bottle (A6), 21st May 2021. Damson Wine 2020 - Second Bottle (4), 19th-20th May2021.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ORANGE WINE The first task was to thinly peel 12 of the 24 oranges, avoiding as much pith as possible. This was a tedious task and took a little less than an hour and a half. I covered the resultant peel with four pints of boiling water, to be left to one side for about a day. I then squeezed all 24 oranges, which is a sticky process, and put the juicein
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: LEMON & LIME WINE The limes were also good value at five for a pound. Never one to miss a bargain, I snapped them up and used all the lemons and four of the limes for this wine. I began by thinly peeling five of the lemons and two limes, trying to avoid the pith. The peel is now in a bowl and covered with a pint of boiling water and a layer of clingfilm. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: CHERRY WINE Ben's Adventures in Wine Making. Rose Petal and Orange Wine 2019 - Fourth Bottle (1), 22nd May 2021. Nectarine Wine - Final Bottle (3), December 2020 - 21st May 2021. Orange Wine 2020 - Third Bottle (A6), 21st May 2021. Damson Wine 2020 - Second Bottle (4), 19th-20th May2021.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: 2017 The yeast, nutrient and pectolase all went in on Christmas Eve (though several hours before the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols) and I have put this into its two demijohns tonight, 28th December, leaving a large gap in each demijohn (with two 'topping up' bottles prepared) so that the fermentation can die down. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: RHUBARB WINE 2013 When I got home from work on Monday evening, 13th May, I added six pounds of sugar, the yeast and two teaspoons of nutrient. Then on Friday I transferred it all into the demijohns, sieving out the rhubarb while listening to Michael Tippet's First Symphony on Radio 3. This was a long, sticky process but has produced a delightfulcandy-pink liquid.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: SOME TECHNICAL STUFF (FOR I am honoured to have been asked to write a guest blog for the Lovely Greens website. If you haven't come across it, click on the words 'Lovely Greens', and you will be taken there. Where my blog is a one-trick pony, Tanya's is an amalgam of all sorts of useful and interesting information about simple living, making stuff, wildlifeand beyond.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: STRAWBERRY WINE 2012 I started this wine yesterday, Sunday 8th July. It was a rare and welcome sunny day, and we spent it in the south western reaches of North Yorkshire, nosing around some large and extremely posh gardens - including that of Low Hall in Dacre.Before this, however, we stopped off at the 'Pick Your Own' at Wharfedale Grange Farm, and in best gang-master style, I had Claire, Duncan and Rachel BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: MARCH 2019 A fabulous bottle of wine. This is smooth and fruity with an excellent blackberry taste. I chose it because we are now on holiday (a 300 mile drive north tomorrow - BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING Rhubarb Wine 2020 - First Bottle (B4), 8 May 2021. The brown sugar I used when making this rhubarb wine has definitely had an effect. There is no hint of pink to this wine - it is instead a golden yellow. Its taste has a burnt element to it, but not in an unpleasant way. This is an unusual rhubarb wine but I think one that is rather good. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL WINE 2017 Rose Petal Wine 2017 - Sixth Bottle (A5), 26th-27th May 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: QUINCE WINE I started making the wine on the evening of 18th October. Claire helped by cutting up the first 10 quinces for me to grate (using the food processor) before she retired to have a bath. I put these in 4 pints of water, brought it to the boil and boiled it for 15 minutes whilst I cut up the remaining 10 quinces, ready for grating. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL AND ORANGE Lockdown has taken a significant move towards release. We can now visit people indoors and stay over night. Our first visit, therefore, was to York where we spent Saturday night with my parents, the Eurovision Song Contest and this bottle of Rose Petal & Orange which I think everyone enjoyed. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: MAGNOLIA PETAL WINE I measured six pints of petals (those in the freezer turned brown on defrosting) and put them in our large pan with the thinly peeled peel of two lemons and an orange. I put in 2 lbs 12 oz of sugar and 7 pints or water, brought this to the boil (a long process) and let it simmer for 20 minutes. Meantime, I squeezed the lemons and orange and putVANILLA WINE
A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: SOME TECHNICAL STUFF (FOR I am honoured to have been asked to write a guest blog for the Lovely Greens website. If you haven't come across it, click on the words 'Lovely Greens', and you will be taken there. Where my blog is a one-trick pony, Tanya's is an amalgam of all sorts of useful and interesting information about simple living, making stuff, wildlifeand beyond.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: XMAS TUTTI FRUTI 2019 Xmas Tutti Fruti 2019 - Sixth Bottle (C1), 22nd-23rd April 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: GINGER WINE Last time I remember bananas being in the recipe, but I could not find this in any of my books. Those books all require such a pathetically small amount of ginger - 1 oz in the case of C J J Berry, and a quarter of this from Brian Leverett - that I ignored these recipesentirely.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: RHUBARB WINE 2013 When I got home from work on Monday evening, 13th May, I added six pounds of sugar, the yeast and two teaspoons of nutrient. Then on Friday I transferred it all into the demijohns, sieving out the rhubarb while listening to Michael Tippet's First Symphony on Radio 3. This was a long, sticky process but has produced a delightfulcandy-pink liquid.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING Rhubarb Wine 2020 - First Bottle (B4), 8 May 2021. The brown sugar I used when making this rhubarb wine has definitely had an effect. There is no hint of pink to this wine - it is instead a golden yellow. Its taste has a burnt element to it, but not in an unpleasant way. This is an unusual rhubarb wine but I think one that is rather good. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL WINE 2017 Rose Petal Wine 2017 - Sixth Bottle (A5), 26th-27th May 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: QUINCE WINE I started making the wine on the evening of 18th October. Claire helped by cutting up the first 10 quinces for me to grate (using the food processor) before she retired to have a bath. I put these in 4 pints of water, brought it to the boil and boiled it for 15 minutes whilst I cut up the remaining 10 quinces, ready for grating. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL AND ORANGE Lockdown has taken a significant move towards release. We can now visit people indoors and stay over night. Our first visit, therefore, was to York where we spent Saturday night with my parents, the Eurovision Song Contest and this bottle of Rose Petal & Orange which I think everyone enjoyed. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: MAGNOLIA PETAL WINE I measured six pints of petals (those in the freezer turned brown on defrosting) and put them in our large pan with the thinly peeled peel of two lemons and an orange. I put in 2 lbs 12 oz of sugar and 7 pints or water, brought this to the boil (a long process) and let it simmer for 20 minutes. Meantime, I squeezed the lemons and orange and putVANILLA WINE
A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: SOME TECHNICAL STUFF (FOR I am honoured to have been asked to write a guest blog for the Lovely Greens website. If you haven't come across it, click on the words 'Lovely Greens', and you will be taken there. Where my blog is a one-trick pony, Tanya's is an amalgam of all sorts of useful and interesting information about simple living, making stuff, wildlifeand beyond.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: XMAS TUTTI FRUTI 2019 Xmas Tutti Fruti 2019 - Sixth Bottle (C1), 22nd-23rd April 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: GINGER WINE Last time I remember bananas being in the recipe, but I could not find this in any of my books. Those books all require such a pathetically small amount of ginger - 1 oz in the case of C J J Berry, and a quarter of this from Brian Leverett - that I ignored these recipesentirely.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: RHUBARB WINE 2013 When I got home from work on Monday evening, 13th May, I added six pounds of sugar, the yeast and two teaspoons of nutrient. Then on Friday I transferred it all into the demijohns, sieving out the rhubarb while listening to Michael Tippet's First Symphony on Radio 3. This was a long, sticky process but has produced a delightfulcandy-pink liquid.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: VANILLA WINE A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: CHERRY WINE Ben's Adventures in Wine Making. Rose Petal and Orange Wine 2019 - Fourth Bottle (1), 22nd May 2021. Nectarine Wine - Final Bottle (3), December 2020 - 21st May 2021. Orange Wine 2020 - Third Bottle (A6), 21st May 2021. Damson Wine 2020 - Second Bottle (4), 19th-20th May2021.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: KIWI FRUIT WINE Ben's Adventures in Wine Making. Rose Petal and Orange Wine 2019 - Fourth Bottle (1), 22nd May 2021. Nectarine Wine - Final Bottle (3), December 2020 - 21st May 2021. Orange Wine 2020 - Third Bottle (A6), 21st May 2021. Damson Wine 2020 - Second Bottle (4), 19th-20th May2021.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: GINGER WINE Last time I remember bananas being in the recipe, but I could not find this in any of my books. Those books all require such a pathetically small amount of ginger - 1 oz in the case of C J J Berry, and a quarter of this from Brian Leverett - that I ignored these recipesentirely.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: XMAS TUTTI FRUTI 2019 Xmas Tutti Fruti 2019 - Sixth Bottle (C1), 22nd-23rd April 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: JASMINE TEA WINE This time I have used 1 ¼ oz of tea (which was 15 tea bags, ripped open and shaken out), 3 oranges (just the juice), 1 lb minced sultanas and 2 ½ lbs of sugar. I boiled 2 ½ pints of water and poured this over the tea in my bucket. This brewed while I squeezed the oranges and minced the sultanas (in BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ELDERBERRY WINE 2018 Our week's holiday is nearly over and to mark the occasion we drank a bottle of elderberry wine with Toad in the Hole and onion gravy. Earlier in the day we ate sausage sandwiches in Bedale after plantingan apple tree.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: BLACKBERRY WINE 2013 I crushed the fruit in its bucket and poured over 15 ½ pints of boiling water. Later that evening I added 7 ½ lbs sugar, and the next morning I put in the yeast (burgundy) and two teaspoons each of nutrient and pectolase. The blackberries before crushing. On Thursday night, later than I had wanted - mostly due to a large pile of washingup
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: 2018 Blimey, that was a busy day! The sort of day that by the end of it only a take-out pizza and a bottle of rose petal wine will do. It being the last working day of the year, I had 15 house-completions, plus finalising a complicated land deal in Otley. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ORANGE WINE 2014 Claire mentioned the possibility of doing a single batch of orange for 2014. This, of course, is sacrilege and I have done my usual double. I acknowledge that I am running out of both wine bottles and anywhere to put them, but this year could prove to be a poor one for fruit.And orange wine is such a standard that it would be a shame not to have one bottle for every month. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING Rhubarb Wine 2020 - First Bottle (B4), 8 May 2021. The brown sugar I used when making this rhubarb wine has definitely had an effect. There is no hint of pink to this wine - it is instead a golden yellow. Its taste has a burnt element to it, but not in an unpleasant way. This is an unusual rhubarb wine but I think one that is rather good. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL WINE 2017 Rose Petal Wine 2017 - Sixth Bottle (A5), 26th-27th May 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: QUINCE WINE I started making the wine on the evening of 18th October. Claire helped by cutting up the first 10 quinces for me to grate (using the food processor) before she retired to have a bath. I put these in 4 pints of water, brought it to the boil and boiled it for 15 minutes whilst I cut up the remaining 10 quinces, ready for grating. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL AND ORANGE Lockdown has taken a significant move towards release. We can now visit people indoors and stay over night. Our first visit, therefore, was to York where we spent Saturday night with my parents, the Eurovision Song Contest and this bottle of Rose Petal & Orange which I think everyone enjoyed. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: MAGNOLIA PETAL WINE I measured six pints of petals (those in the freezer turned brown on defrosting) and put them in our large pan with the thinly peeled peel of two lemons and an orange. I put in 2 lbs 12 oz of sugar and 7 pints or water, brought this to the boil (a long process) and let it simmer for 20 minutes. Meantime, I squeezed the lemons and orange and putVANILLA WINE
A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: SOME TECHNICAL STUFF (FOR I am honoured to have been asked to write a guest blog for the Lovely Greens website. If you haven't come across it, click on the words 'Lovely Greens', and you will be taken there. Where my blog is a one-trick pony, Tanya's is an amalgam of all sorts of useful and interesting information about simple living, making stuff, wildlifeand beyond.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: XMAS TUTTI FRUTI 2019 Xmas Tutti Fruti 2019 - Sixth Bottle (C1), 22nd-23rd April 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: GINGER WINE Last time I remember bananas being in the recipe, but I could not find this in any of my books. Those books all require such a pathetically small amount of ginger - 1 oz in the case of C J J Berry, and a quarter of this from Brian Leverett - that I ignored these recipesentirely.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: RHUBARB WINE 2013 When I got home from work on Monday evening, 13th May, I added six pounds of sugar, the yeast and two teaspoons of nutrient. Then on Friday I transferred it all into the demijohns, sieving out the rhubarb while listening to Michael Tippet's First Symphony on Radio 3. This was a long, sticky process but has produced a delightfulcandy-pink liquid.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING Rhubarb Wine 2020 - First Bottle (B4), 8 May 2021. The brown sugar I used when making this rhubarb wine has definitely had an effect. There is no hint of pink to this wine - it is instead a golden yellow. Its taste has a burnt element to it, but not in an unpleasant way. This is an unusual rhubarb wine but I think one that is rather good. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL WINE 2017 Rose Petal Wine 2017 - Sixth Bottle (A5), 26th-27th May 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: QUINCE WINE I started making the wine on the evening of 18th October. Claire helped by cutting up the first 10 quinces for me to grate (using the food processor) before she retired to have a bath. I put these in 4 pints of water, brought it to the boil and boiled it for 15 minutes whilst I cut up the remaining 10 quinces, ready for grating. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL AND ORANGE Lockdown has taken a significant move towards release. We can now visit people indoors and stay over night. Our first visit, therefore, was to York where we spent Saturday night with my parents, the Eurovision Song Contest and this bottle of Rose Petal & Orange which I think everyone enjoyed. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: MAGNOLIA PETAL WINE I measured six pints of petals (those in the freezer turned brown on defrosting) and put them in our large pan with the thinly peeled peel of two lemons and an orange. I put in 2 lbs 12 oz of sugar and 7 pints or water, brought this to the boil (a long process) and let it simmer for 20 minutes. Meantime, I squeezed the lemons and orange and putVANILLA WINE
A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: SOME TECHNICAL STUFF (FOR I am honoured to have been asked to write a guest blog for the Lovely Greens website. If you haven't come across it, click on the words 'Lovely Greens', and you will be taken there. Where my blog is a one-trick pony, Tanya's is an amalgam of all sorts of useful and interesting information about simple living, making stuff, wildlifeand beyond.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: XMAS TUTTI FRUTI 2019 Xmas Tutti Fruti 2019 - Sixth Bottle (C1), 22nd-23rd April 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: GINGER WINE Last time I remember bananas being in the recipe, but I could not find this in any of my books. Those books all require such a pathetically small amount of ginger - 1 oz in the case of C J J Berry, and a quarter of this from Brian Leverett - that I ignored these recipesentirely.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: RHUBARB WINE 2013 When I got home from work on Monday evening, 13th May, I added six pounds of sugar, the yeast and two teaspoons of nutrient. Then on Friday I transferred it all into the demijohns, sieving out the rhubarb while listening to Michael Tippet's First Symphony on Radio 3. This was a long, sticky process but has produced a delightfulcandy-pink liquid.
VANILLA WINE
A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: CHERRY WINE Ben's Adventures in Wine Making. Rose Petal and Orange Wine 2019 - Fourth Bottle (1), 22nd May 2021. Nectarine Wine - Final Bottle (3), December 2020 - 21st May 2021. Orange Wine 2020 - Third Bottle (A6), 21st May 2021. Damson Wine 2020 - Second Bottle (4), 19th-20th May2021.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: KIWI FRUIT WINE Ben's Adventures in Wine Making. Rose Petal and Orange Wine 2019 - Fourth Bottle (1), 22nd May 2021. Nectarine Wine - Final Bottle (3), December 2020 - 21st May 2021. Orange Wine 2020 - Third Bottle (A6), 21st May 2021. Damson Wine 2020 - Second Bottle (4), 19th-20th May2021.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: JASMINE TEA WINE It being the end of October and with me not having made any wine so far this month, I started the wine this morning, 29th October. This time I have used 1 ¼ oz of tea (which was 15 tea bags, ripped open and shaken out), 3 oranges (just the juice), 1 lb minced sultanas and 2 ½ lbs of sugar. I boiled 2 ½ pints of water and poured this over the tea in my bucket. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: XMAS TUTTI FRUTI 2019 Xmas Tutti Fruti 2019 - Sixth Bottle (C1), 22nd-23rd April 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: GINGER WINE Last time I remember bananas being in the recipe, but I could not find this in any of my books. Those books all require such a pathetically small amount of ginger - 1 oz in the case of C J J Berry, and a quarter of this from Brian Leverett - that I ignored these recipesentirely.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: CELERY WINE It is now a pale green liquid smelling of soup. . Four pounds of celery in 7.5 pints of water. I put in the yeast and a teaspoon of nutrient on Monday morning. I have not bothered to put in any pectolase as I do not thing celery is a rich source of pectin. During the five days it has been in its bucket I have stirred the wine twicea day and
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: STRAWBERRY WINE 2018 Strawberry Wine 2018 - Fifth Bottle (3), 14th May 2021. I think that this vintage may have improved. Claire described it as at the good end of a midweek bottle, which is definitely a step up. Though the strawberry flavour is subtle, it is present and otherwise this BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: 2018 Blimey, that was a busy day! The sort of day that by the end of it only a take-out pizza and a bottle of rose petal wine will do. It being the last working day of the year, I had 15 house-completions, plus finalising a complicated land deal in Otley. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: BLACKBERRY WINE 2013 I crushed the fruit in its bucket and poured over 15 ½ pints of boiling water. Later that evening I added 7 ½ lbs sugar, and the next morning I put in the yeast (burgundy) and two teaspoons each of nutrient and pectolase. The blackberries before crushing. On Thursday night, later than I had wanted - mostly due to a large pile of washingup
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING Rhubarb Wine 2020 - First Bottle (B4), 8 May 2021. The brown sugar I used when making this rhubarb wine has definitely had an effect. There is no hint of pink to this wine - it is instead a golden yellow. Its taste has a burnt element to it, but not in an unpleasant way. This is an unusual rhubarb wine but I think one that is rather good. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: PRUNE & PARSNIP WINE 2020 I am a weak man. After Saturday's excesses I thought that I would have an evening away from the booze. But then Claire said that she would quite like a bottle opening and I found myself in the cupboard under the stairs fishing out a bottle of Prune & Parsnip.VANILLA WINE
A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ORANGE WINE 2020 Ben's Adventures in Wine Making. Damson Wine 2020 - Second Bottle (4), 19th-20th May 2021. Crab Apple Wine 2020 - First Bottle (1), 16th May 2021. Xmas Tutti Fruti 2019 (C2), 15th May 2021. Rhubarb Wine 2021 - The Making Of Strawberry Wine 2018 - Fifth Bottle (3), 14th May 2021. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: QUINCE WINE I started making the wine on the evening of 18th October. Claire helped by cutting up the first 10 quinces for me to grate (using the food processor) before she retired to have a bath. I put these in 4 pints of water, brought it to the boil and boiled it for 15 minutes whilst I cut up the remaining 10 quinces, ready for grating. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: APPLE WINE AND APPLE I washed the apples, cut them into eight pieces each and whizzed them through the food processor on the 'slice' attachment. Next I minced 1 lb of sultanas, again using the food processor, and put all this into the bucket along with 3 lbs sugar. I boiled 6 ½ pints of water and poured this over, filling the kitchen with an apple scent. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: MAGNOLIA PETAL WINE I measured six pints of petals (those in the freezer turned brown on defrosting) and put them in our large pan with the thinly peeled peel of two lemons and an orange. I put in 2 lbs 12 oz of sugar and 7 pints or water, brought this to the boil (a long process) and let it simmer for 20 minutes. Meantime, I squeezed the lemons and orange and put BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: JASMINE TEA WINE This time I have used 1 ¼ oz of tea (which was 15 tea bags, ripped open and shaken out), 3 oranges (just the juice), 1 lb minced sultanas and 2 ½ lbs of sugar. I boiled 2 ½ pints of water and poured this over the tea in my bucket. This brewed while I squeezed the oranges and minced the sultanas (in BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: XMAS TUTTI FRUTI 2019 Xmas Tutti Fruti 2019 - Sixth Bottle (C1), 22nd-23rd April 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: STRAWBERRY WINE 2018 I think that this vintage may have improved. Claire described it as at the good end of a midweek bottle, which is definitely a step up. Though the strawberry flavour is subtle, it is present and otherwise this felt like a soft white, but with a glorious red colour. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING Rhubarb Wine 2020 - First Bottle (B4), 8 May 2021. The brown sugar I used when making this rhubarb wine has definitely had an effect. There is no hint of pink to this wine - it is instead a golden yellow. Its taste has a burnt element to it, but not in an unpleasant way. This is an unusual rhubarb wine but I think one that is rather good. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: PRUNE & PARSNIP WINE 2020 I am a weak man. After Saturday's excesses I thought that I would have an evening away from the booze. But then Claire said that she would quite like a bottle opening and I found myself in the cupboard under the stairs fishing out a bottle of Prune & Parsnip.VANILLA WINE
A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ORANGE WINE 2020 Ben's Adventures in Wine Making. Damson Wine 2020 - Second Bottle (4), 19th-20th May 2021. Crab Apple Wine 2020 - First Bottle (1), 16th May 2021. Xmas Tutti Fruti 2019 (C2), 15th May 2021. Rhubarb Wine 2021 - The Making Of Strawberry Wine 2018 - Fifth Bottle (3), 14th May 2021. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: QUINCE WINE I started making the wine on the evening of 18th October. Claire helped by cutting up the first 10 quinces for me to grate (using the food processor) before she retired to have a bath. I put these in 4 pints of water, brought it to the boil and boiled it for 15 minutes whilst I cut up the remaining 10 quinces, ready for grating. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: APPLE WINE AND APPLE I washed the apples, cut them into eight pieces each and whizzed them through the food processor on the 'slice' attachment. Next I minced 1 lb of sultanas, again using the food processor, and put all this into the bucket along with 3 lbs sugar. I boiled 6 ½ pints of water and poured this over, filling the kitchen with an apple scent. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: MAGNOLIA PETAL WINE I measured six pints of petals (those in the freezer turned brown on defrosting) and put them in our large pan with the thinly peeled peel of two lemons and an orange. I put in 2 lbs 12 oz of sugar and 7 pints or water, brought this to the boil (a long process) and let it simmer for 20 minutes. Meantime, I squeezed the lemons and orange and put BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: JASMINE TEA WINE This time I have used 1 ¼ oz of tea (which was 15 tea bags, ripped open and shaken out), 3 oranges (just the juice), 1 lb minced sultanas and 2 ½ lbs of sugar. I boiled 2 ½ pints of water and poured this over the tea in my bucket. This brewed while I squeezed the oranges and minced the sultanas (in BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: XMAS TUTTI FRUTI 2019 Xmas Tutti Fruti 2019 - Sixth Bottle (C1), 22nd-23rd April 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: STRAWBERRY WINE 2018 I think that this vintage may have improved. Claire described it as at the good end of a midweek bottle, which is definitely a step up. Though the strawberry flavour is subtle, it is present and otherwise this felt like a soft white, but with a glorious red colour. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ORANGE WINE 2020 Ben's Adventures in Wine Making. Damson Wine 2020 - Second Bottle (4), 19th-20th May 2021. Crab Apple Wine 2020 - First Bottle (1), 16th May 2021. Xmas Tutti Fruti 2019 (C2), 15th May 2021. Rhubarb Wine 2021 - The Making Of Strawberry Wine 2018 - Fifth Bottle (3), 14th May 2021. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL AND ORANGE Lockdown has taken a significant move towards release. We can now visit people indoors and stay over night. Our first visit, therefore, was to York where we spent Saturday night with my parents, the Eurovision Song Contest and this bottle of Rose Petal & Orange which I think everyone enjoyed. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: BLACKCURRANT WINE 2020 Claire required something nice to drink after I had forced her to have two sips of Magnolia Petal Wine. Being the loving and considerate husband that I am, I directed her to the blackcurrant wine and whilst Claire was drinking this, I was drinking the Magnolia Petal. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ORANGE WINE The first task was to thinly peel 12 of the 24 oranges, avoiding as much pith as possible. This was a tedious task and took a little less than an hour and a half. I covered the resultant peel with four pints of boiling water, to be left to one side for about a day. I then squeezed all 24 oranges, which is a sticky process, and put the juicein
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ELDERBERRY WINE 2018 Our week's holiday is nearly over and to mark the occasion we drank a bottle of elderberry wine with Toad in the Hole and onion gravy. Earlier in the day we ate sausage sandwiches in Bedale after plantingan apple tree.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: CHERRY WINE On Tuesday evening, 6th August, I strained the liquid into my biggest pan, throwing out the cherry flesh, skin and stones, and brought this to the boil with the lid off. When it reached violent bubbles I poured the liquid over three pounds of sugar - which is a pound less than dictated by C J J Berry. Four pounds of sugar would be ridiculous. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ZUCCHINI WINE I put this in my bucket, along with the juice of two oranges and 2-and-a-bit ounces of grated ginger. I added 2 lb 12 oz sugar and poured over 6 ½ pints of boiling water. At this stage what I have made is a sweet zucchini soup. The grated zucchini. On Saturday morning I put in two teaspoons of citric acid (the recipe book askedfor four), a
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: 2017 The yeast, nutrient and pectolase all went in on Christmas Eve (though several hours before the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols) and I have put this into its two demijohns tonight, 28th December, leaving a large gap in each demijohn (with two 'topping up' bottles prepared) so that the fermentation can die down. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: SOME TECHNICAL STUFF (FOR I am honoured to have been asked to write a guest blog for the Lovely Greens website. If you haven't come across it, click on the words 'Lovely Greens', and you will be taken there. Where my blog is a one-trick pony, Tanya's is an amalgam of all sorts of useful and interesting information about simple living, making stuff, wildlifeand beyond.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: CHRISTMAS TUTTI FRUTI It is a dank Tuesday evening, 18th December, and I am yet to be gripped by seasonal cheer. This probably has something to do with the fact that we are about to set off for our Sainsbury's Christmas Shop, and I imagine this will be hellish. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING Rhubarb Wine 2020 - First Bottle (B4), 8 May 2021. The brown sugar I used when making this rhubarb wine has definitely had an effect. There is no hint of pink to this wine - it is instead a golden yellow. Its taste has a burnt element to it, but not in an unpleasant way. This is an unusual rhubarb wine but I think one that is rather good. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL WINE 2017 Rose Petal Wine 2017 - Sixth Bottle (A5), 26th-27th May 2021VANILLA WINE
A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: QUINCE WINE I started making the wine on the evening of 18th October. Claire helped by cutting up the first 10 quinces for me to grate (using the food processor) before she retired to have a bath. I put these in 4 pints of water, brought it to the boil and boiled it for 15 minutes whilst I cut up the remaining 10 quinces, ready for grating. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: KIWI FRUIT WINE On my return from the theatre - Rutherford & Son, performed by Northern Broadsides (shouty, intense, good) - the wine's temperature had dropped to 29 degrees, so I added the yeast and a teaspoon each of nutrient, pectolase and tannin. I strained the liquid into its demijohn on Wednesday evening, 10th April. I was close with my estimate of water required - there is probably about half a pint BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: CHRISTMAS TUTTI FRUTI It is a dank Tuesday evening, 18th December, and I am yet to be gripped by seasonal cheer. This probably has something to do with the fact that we are about to set off for our Sainsbury's Christmas Shop, and I imagine this will be hellish. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: SOME TECHNICAL STUFF (FOR I am honoured to have been asked to write a guest blog for the Lovely Greens website. If you haven't come across it, click on the words 'Lovely Greens', and you will be taken there. Where my blog is a one-trick pony, Tanya's is an amalgam of all sorts of useful and interesting information about simple living, making stuff, wildlifeand beyond.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: RHUBARB WINE 2013 When I got home from work on Monday evening, 13th May, I added six pounds of sugar, the yeast and two teaspoons of nutrient. Then on Friday I transferred it all into the demijohns, sieving out the rhubarb while listening to Michael Tippet's First Symphony on Radio 3. This was a long, sticky process but has produced a delightfulcandy-pink liquid.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ORANGE WINE 2014 Claire mentioned the possibility of doing a single batch of orange for 2014. This, of course, is sacrilege and I have done my usual double. I acknowledge that I am running out of both wine bottles and anywhere to put them, but this year could prove to be a poor one for fruit.And orange wine is such a standard that it would be a shame not to have one bottle for every month. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: 2014 A Christmas Eve bottle of wine round at 3 The Alders. It felt deserved. Despite the office closing on the 23rd, I had an exceptionally busy morning, trying to get two houses sold before NewYear.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING Rhubarb Wine 2020 - First Bottle (B4), 8 May 2021. The brown sugar I used when making this rhubarb wine has definitely had an effect. There is no hint of pink to this wine - it is instead a golden yellow. Its taste has a burnt element to it, but not in an unpleasant way. This is an unusual rhubarb wine but I think one that is rather good. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL WINE 2017 Rose Petal Wine 2017 - Sixth Bottle (A5), 26th-27th May 2021VANILLA WINE
A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: QUINCE WINE I started making the wine on the evening of 18th October. Claire helped by cutting up the first 10 quinces for me to grate (using the food processor) before she retired to have a bath. I put these in 4 pints of water, brought it to the boil and boiled it for 15 minutes whilst I cut up the remaining 10 quinces, ready for grating. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: KIWI FRUIT WINE On my return from the theatre - Rutherford & Son, performed by Northern Broadsides (shouty, intense, good) - the wine's temperature had dropped to 29 degrees, so I added the yeast and a teaspoon each of nutrient, pectolase and tannin. I strained the liquid into its demijohn on Wednesday evening, 10th April. I was close with my estimate of water required - there is probably about half a pint BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: CHRISTMAS TUTTI FRUTI It is a dank Tuesday evening, 18th December, and I am yet to be gripped by seasonal cheer. This probably has something to do with the fact that we are about to set off for our Sainsbury's Christmas Shop, and I imagine this will be hellish. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: SOME TECHNICAL STUFF (FOR I am honoured to have been asked to write a guest blog for the Lovely Greens website. If you haven't come across it, click on the words 'Lovely Greens', and you will be taken there. Where my blog is a one-trick pony, Tanya's is an amalgam of all sorts of useful and interesting information about simple living, making stuff, wildlifeand beyond.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: RHUBARB WINE 2013 When I got home from work on Monday evening, 13th May, I added six pounds of sugar, the yeast and two teaspoons of nutrient. Then on Friday I transferred it all into the demijohns, sieving out the rhubarb while listening to Michael Tippet's First Symphony on Radio 3. This was a long, sticky process but has produced a delightfulcandy-pink liquid.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ORANGE WINE 2014 Claire mentioned the possibility of doing a single batch of orange for 2014. This, of course, is sacrilege and I have done my usual double. I acknowledge that I am running out of both wine bottles and anywhere to put them, but this year could prove to be a poor one for fruit.And orange wine is such a standard that it would be a shame not to have one bottle for every month. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: 2014 A Christmas Eve bottle of wine round at 3 The Alders. It felt deserved. Despite the office closing on the 23rd, I had an exceptionally busy morning, trying to get two houses sold before NewYear.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL WINE 2017 Rose Petal Wine 2017 - Sixth Bottle (A5), 26th-27th May 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: KIWI FRUIT WINE On my return from the theatre - Rutherford & Son, performed by Northern Broadsides (shouty, intense, good) - the wine's temperature had dropped to 29 degrees, so I added the yeast and a teaspoon each of nutrient, pectolase and tannin. I strained the liquid into its demijohn on Wednesday evening, 10th April. I was close with my estimate of water required - there is probably about half a pint BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: LEMON & LIME WINE The limes were also good value at five for a pound. Never one to miss a bargain, I snapped them up and used all the lemons and four of the limes for this wine. I began by thinly peeling five of the lemons and two limes, trying to avoid the pith. The peel is now in a bowl and covered with a pint of boiling water and a layer of clingfilm. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: JASMINE TEA WINE It being the end of October and with me not having made any wine so far this month, I started the wine this morning, 29th October. This time I have used 1 ¼ oz of tea (which was 15 tea bags, ripped open and shaken out), 3 oranges (just the juice), 1 lb minced sultanas and 2 ½ lbs of sugar. I boiled 2 ½ pints of water and poured this over the tea in my bucket. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ELDERBERRY WINE 2018 Our week's holiday is nearly over and to mark the occasion we drank a bottle of elderberry wine with Toad in the Hole and onion gravy. Earlier in the day we ate sausage sandwiches in Bedale after plantingan apple tree.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: 2017 The yeast, nutrient and pectolase all went in on Christmas Eve (though several hours before the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols) and I have put this into its two demijohns tonight, 28th December, leaving a large gap in each demijohn (with two 'topping up' bottles prepared) so that the fermentation can die down. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: SOME TECHNICAL STUFF (FOR I am honoured to have been asked to write a guest blog for the Lovely Greens website. If you haven't come across it, click on the words 'Lovely Greens', and you will be taken there. Where my blog is a one-trick pony, Tanya's is an amalgam of all sorts of useful and interesting information about simple living, making stuff, wildlifeand beyond.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: 2014 A Christmas Eve bottle of wine round at 3 The Alders. It felt deserved. Despite the office closing on the 23rd, I had an exceptionally busy morning, trying to get two houses sold before NewYear.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: DANDELION WINE 2016 I covered this with seven pints of water and put in 2 lbs 9 oz of sugar and the thin peelings of two lemons and an orange. This was brought up to the boil and I let it boil for either ten or twenty minutes (I forget). Meanwhile I minced half a kilo of sultanas and squeezed the juice from the lemons and orange and put these in thebucket.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING Sunday 9th May was a day for domestic tasks. Most Sundays are. Ever since I made a cake for Claire's birthday in January, and thereby discovering that I could, I have used Sunday mornings to make a cake or similar to keep us in treats throughout the week. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKINGBEST WINE BLOGSFOOD AND WINE BLOGSWINE BLOGGERSWINE MAKING SCIENCE Rhubarb Wine 2020 - First Bottle (B4), 8 May 2021. The brown sugar I used when making this rhubarb wine has definitely had an effect. There is no hint of pink to this wine - it is instead a golden yellow. Its taste has a burnt element to it, but not in an unpleasant way. This is an unusual rhubarb wine but I think one that is rather good. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL WINE 2017 Rose Petal Wine 2017 - Sixth Bottle (A5), 26th-27th May 2021VANILLA WINE
A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: QUINCE WINE I started making the wine on the evening of 18th October. Claire helped by cutting up the first 10 quinces for me to grate (using the food processor) before she retired to have a bath. I put these in 4 pints of water, brought it to the boil and boiled it for 15 minutes whilst I cut up the remaining 10 quinces, ready for grating. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: KIWI FRUIT WINE On my return from the theatre - Rutherford & Son, performed by Northern Broadsides (shouty, intense, good) - the wine's temperature had dropped to 29 degrees, so I added the yeast and a teaspoon each of nutrient, pectolase and tannin. I strained the liquid into its demijohn on Wednesday evening, 10th April. I was close with my estimate of water required - there is probably about half a pint BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: CHRISTMAS TUTTI FRUTI It is a dank Tuesday evening, 18th December, and I am yet to be gripped by seasonal cheer. This probably has something to do with the fact that we are about to set off for our Sainsbury's Christmas Shop, and I imagine this will be hellish. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: SOME TECHNICAL STUFF (FOR I am honoured to have been asked to write a guest blog for the Lovely Greens website. If you haven't come across it, click on the words 'Lovely Greens', and you will be taken there. Where my blog is a one-trick pony, Tanya's is an amalgam of all sorts of useful and interesting information about simple living, making stuff, wildlifeand beyond.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: RHUBARB WINE 2013 When I got home from work on Monday evening, 13th May, I added six pounds of sugar, the yeast and two teaspoons of nutrient. Then on Friday I transferred it all into the demijohns, sieving out the rhubarb while listening to Michael Tippet's First Symphony on Radio 3. This was a long, sticky process but has produced a delightfulcandy-pink liquid.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ORANGE WINE 2014 Claire mentioned the possibility of doing a single batch of orange for 2014. This, of course, is sacrilege and I have done my usual double. I acknowledge that I am running out of both wine bottles and anywhere to put them, but this year could prove to be a poor one for fruit.And orange wine is such a standard that it would be a shame not to have one bottle for every month. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: 2014 A Christmas Eve bottle of wine round at 3 The Alders. It felt deserved. Despite the office closing on the 23rd, I had an exceptionally busy morning, trying to get two houses sold before NewYear.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKINGBEST WINE BLOGSFOOD AND WINE BLOGSWINE BLOGGERSWINE MAKING SCIENCE Rhubarb Wine 2020 - First Bottle (B4), 8 May 2021. The brown sugar I used when making this rhubarb wine has definitely had an effect. There is no hint of pink to this wine - it is instead a golden yellow. Its taste has a burnt element to it, but not in an unpleasant way. This is an unusual rhubarb wine but I think one that is rather good. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL WINE 2017 Rose Petal Wine 2017 - Sixth Bottle (A5), 26th-27th May 2021VANILLA WINE
A couple of weeks ago I was idly flicking through CJJ Berry when my eye was caught by 'Vanilla Wine'. I had never noticed this before, and - of course - this is the obvious choice for a wine beginning with'V'.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: QUINCE WINE I started making the wine on the evening of 18th October. Claire helped by cutting up the first 10 quinces for me to grate (using the food processor) before she retired to have a bath. I put these in 4 pints of water, brought it to the boil and boiled it for 15 minutes whilst I cut up the remaining 10 quinces, ready for grating. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: KIWI FRUIT WINE On my return from the theatre - Rutherford & Son, performed by Northern Broadsides (shouty, intense, good) - the wine's temperature had dropped to 29 degrees, so I added the yeast and a teaspoon each of nutrient, pectolase and tannin. I strained the liquid into its demijohn on Wednesday evening, 10th April. I was close with my estimate of water required - there is probably about half a pint BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: CHRISTMAS TUTTI FRUTI It is a dank Tuesday evening, 18th December, and I am yet to be gripped by seasonal cheer. This probably has something to do with the fact that we are about to set off for our Sainsbury's Christmas Shop, and I imagine this will be hellish. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: SOME TECHNICAL STUFF (FOR I am honoured to have been asked to write a guest blog for the Lovely Greens website. If you haven't come across it, click on the words 'Lovely Greens', and you will be taken there. Where my blog is a one-trick pony, Tanya's is an amalgam of all sorts of useful and interesting information about simple living, making stuff, wildlifeand beyond.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: RHUBARB WINE 2013 When I got home from work on Monday evening, 13th May, I added six pounds of sugar, the yeast and two teaspoons of nutrient. Then on Friday I transferred it all into the demijohns, sieving out the rhubarb while listening to Michael Tippet's First Symphony on Radio 3. This was a long, sticky process but has produced a delightfulcandy-pink liquid.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ORANGE WINE 2014 Claire mentioned the possibility of doing a single batch of orange for 2014. This, of course, is sacrilege and I have done my usual double. I acknowledge that I am running out of both wine bottles and anywhere to put them, but this year could prove to be a poor one for fruit.And orange wine is such a standard that it would be a shame not to have one bottle for every month. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: 2014 A Christmas Eve bottle of wine round at 3 The Alders. It felt deserved. Despite the office closing on the 23rd, I had an exceptionally busy morning, trying to get two houses sold before NewYear.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ROSE PETAL WINE 2017 Rose Petal Wine 2017 - Sixth Bottle (A5), 26th-27th May 2021 BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: KIWI FRUIT WINE On my return from the theatre - Rutherford & Son, performed by Northern Broadsides (shouty, intense, good) - the wine's temperature had dropped to 29 degrees, so I added the yeast and a teaspoon each of nutrient, pectolase and tannin. I strained the liquid into its demijohn on Wednesday evening, 10th April. I was close with my estimate of water required - there is probably about half a pint BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: LEMON & LIME WINE The limes were also good value at five for a pound. Never one to miss a bargain, I snapped them up and used all the lemons and four of the limes for this wine. I began by thinly peeling five of the lemons and two limes, trying to avoid the pith. The peel is now in a bowl and covered with a pint of boiling water and a layer of clingfilm. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: JASMINE TEA WINE It being the end of October and with me not having made any wine so far this month, I started the wine this morning, 29th October. This time I have used 1 ¼ oz of tea (which was 15 tea bags, ripped open and shaken out), 3 oranges (just the juice), 1 lb minced sultanas and 2 ½ lbs of sugar. I boiled 2 ½ pints of water and poured this over the tea in my bucket. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: ELDERBERRY WINE 2018 Our week's holiday is nearly over and to mark the occasion we drank a bottle of elderberry wine with Toad in the Hole and onion gravy. Earlier in the day we ate sausage sandwiches in Bedale after plantingan apple tree.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: 2017 The yeast, nutrient and pectolase all went in on Christmas Eve (though several hours before the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols) and I have put this into its two demijohns tonight, 28th December, leaving a large gap in each demijohn (with two 'topping up' bottles prepared) so that the fermentation can die down. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: SOME TECHNICAL STUFF (FOR I am honoured to have been asked to write a guest blog for the Lovely Greens website. If you haven't come across it, click on the words 'Lovely Greens', and you will be taken there. Where my blog is a one-trick pony, Tanya's is an amalgam of all sorts of useful and interesting information about simple living, making stuff, wildlifeand beyond.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: 2014 A Christmas Eve bottle of wine round at 3 The Alders. It felt deserved. Despite the office closing on the 23rd, I had an exceptionally busy morning, trying to get two houses sold before NewYear.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING: DANDELION WINE 2016 I covered this with seven pints of water and put in 2 lbs 9 oz of sugar and the thin peelings of two lemons and an orange. This was brought up to the boil and I let it boil for either ten or twenty minutes (I forget). Meanwhile I minced half a kilo of sultanas and squeezed the juice from the lemons and orange and put these in thebucket.
BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKING Sunday 9th May was a day for domestic tasks. Most Sundays are. Ever since I made a cake for Claire's birthday in January, and thereby discovering that I could, I have used Sunday mornings to make a cake or similar to keep us in treats throughout the week. BEN'S ADVENTURES IN WINE MAKINGGREETINGS
This blog is a record of the wine that I make and drink. Each flavour made and each bottle drunk will appear here. You may come to the conclusion that, on the whole, I should be drinking less. SATURDAY, 18 JANUARY 2020 GETTING BACK ON THE HORSE... If you are anything other than an one-off visitor, you will have noticed that I have basically stopped blogging. There is a reason for this. In November last year, I was issued with a bill for breach of copyright, for using photos that were not mine. I actually think this is fair enough and don't defend my use of pictures (you may notice that there are very many fewer pictures illustrating my blog posts than previously - it took me 8 hours to get rid of them). However, I have been shaken by this: in total (including legal fees) this cost me just under £3,000. It has been a miserable experience and one I do not wish to repeat. Any pictures I now use will be taken by me (or a friend), but I don't quite feel ready to start over again. If you do happen to spot a blog post with a picture that looks like I may not have taken it, please draw it to my attention. I think I have got them all, but I'm not absolutely sure. I hope that in the not too distant future, normal service will beresumed.
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FRIDAY, 6 DECEMBER 2019 MINT, ELDERFLOWER & RHUBARB - FIFTH BOTTLE (5), 9TH NOVEMBER 2019 I opened this bottle for my 2019 Wine Party, where I decided that I would serve some of my best wine. My expectations were that this wine would come second only to Damson. In fact it came fourth, with blackberry and blackcurrant above it. Aaron, who I had never met before (who came with Laura, who I had only met once) described this wine as 'Exceptionally Drinkable'. He can come again.Posted by Ben Hardy
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THURSDAY, 5 DECEMBER 2019 BLACKCURRANT - FOURTH BOTTLE (A5), 9TH NOVEMBER 2019 Blackcurrant took the bronze at the Wine Party, getting a very respectable 3.81 out of 5. Mark said it was "Dangerously drinkable" and like 'Grown-up Ribena'. In fact, two other people noted 'Ribena' within their comments. Duncan was less impressed, giving the wine its lowest score of the evening (a 2) and calling it "Drier than a gerbil's cage on a summer day in the Kalahari". The Wine Party was smaller than it often is, with 15 people making it (including me and Claire), and five of those only attended for a small proportion. We still managed to do a lot of damage to twelve bottlesof wine.
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TUESDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2019 CHERRY WINE - SECOND BOTTLE (5), 9TH NOVEMBER 2019 I thought that this bottle was rather better than our last bottle of Cherry Wine. I did not notice the bitterness, and this was only one of two bottles finished at the Wine Party (the other being the winner: Damson). It was only just in the top half, though, coming sixth out of 12, with an average score of 3.25. Nick noticed a slight chemical tang but admitted that it was drinkable. Janet and Mark were in complete disagreement about the bouquet, with Mark writing 'Not such a good nose' and Janet writing 'Good cherry nose'. Mark and Janet are marriedto each other.
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MONDAY, 2 DECEMBER 2019 DAMSON WINE - FIRST BOTTLE (4), 9TH NOVEMBER 2019 This was the clear winner of 2019's wine party. It was a fruity red with a distinct damson taste and enjoyed by nearly everyone, getting on average a score of 4.125 out of 5. Pleasingly this was Claire's favourite of the night, which means that I may get a claim to some damsons from our (relatively new) damson tree next year. Janet detected a citrus aftertaste and Mary thought it would go well with a white chocolate cheesecake (but, frankly, what wouldn't?). I didn't score the wine this year but if I had I think this would have been my personal winner as well. I am now regretting having given a bottle away to Emma!Posted by Ben Hardy
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SUNDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2019 STRAWBERRY WINE - FIRST BOTTLE (5), 3RD-7TH NOVEMBER 2019 It has taken us until early November to drink the first bottle from this batch of strawberry wine. This is because I stored all the bottles in the crypt and I rarely venture down there. When I opened it up to store some prune & parsnip I discovered that this bottle had popped its cork. I haven't had an explosion for years! There is no telling how long it has been open for, but we decided to drink itanyway.
Claire had a sherry-glass full and decided that this was plenty. I pretended that the wine was acceptable (it wasn't) and had two glasses. By Thursday night and another half glass, I decided that the only acceptable place for this was down the sink.Posted by Ben Hardy
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THURSDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2019 BLACKBERRY WINE - SECOND BOTTLE (A5), 3RD NOVEMBER 2019 It is unusual for my blackberry wine to taste like real red wine, but this bottle gave a good impression of it. There was a richness and depth that I don't associate with Bramble Wine. We drank it to a Chinese beef and red pepper dish - we ate and drank well on Sundaynight.
The day was spent starting the tidying process for the Wine Party on Saturday. I would love to be one of those people who can effortlessly keep their house in order and clean. At the age of 49-and-a-third, I think it is time to admit defeat.Posted by Ben Hardy
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