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Eating and Drinking => Homebrew => Topic started by: buttercupbanana on June 02, 2007, 16:08

Title: Elderflower wine
Post by: buttercupbanana on June 02, 2007, 16:08

Please help! I want to make some elderflower wine but the recipes all say measure your flowers in 'pints'. I don't get it.  How do you do  this please? :?

Title: Elderflower wine
Post by: WG. on June 02, 2007, 16:36

Hi buttercupbanana and welcome to the forum

I'd take a pint of flowers to mean enough to fill a pint measuring jug, loosely packed - i.e. push them down gently but don't put a 7lb weight on them.

Title: Elderflower wine
Post by: flatcap on June 02, 2007, 17:58

yes wg
             thats how we measure using a jug and gently push them down .

Title: Elderflower wine
Post by: buttercupbanana on June 02, 2007, 18:45

Thanks guys. I understand now! Great to get such speedy replies...... i'll report on progress. :wink:

Title: Elderflower wine
Post by: richyrich7 on June 02, 2007, 22:49

Makes fabulous wine, my memory seems to tell me that at one point many many years ago it was banned from being made as it taste's like champagne and only the rich could enjoy the taste or something like that. Read it some where can't remember the exact details, anyway who cares  :lol:  just enjoy when you open it.

Title: Elderflower wine
Post by: dawninspain on June 02, 2007, 23:34

Richyrich - what you are thinking of was elderflower champagne which incidentally we have made in the past and is delicious but rather dangerous to have in the house as it is prone to blowing the corks out of the bottles unexpectedly.

I think that a firm made elderflower champagne commercially and the French objected to them calling it champagne as only wine made in the actual Champagne region of France is entitled to use the word 'champagne' on their lables. I think there was a big court case about it.

Dawn

Title: Elderflower wine
Post by: richyrich7 on June 03, 2007, 09:01

Thanks Dawn new I'd read something about elderflowers  :lol:

Title: Elderflower wine
Post by: David. on June 03, 2007, 18:08

If you're picking elderflowers, the cordial is also rather nice.


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