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Eating and Drinking => Homebrew => Topic started by: seadart on June 08, 2007, 20:52

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: seadart on June 08, 2007, 20:52

I know you can't make wine from milk but is there anything else that dosen't make wine? Well apart from my flip flops!  :lol:  :lol:

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: hotterotter on June 09, 2007, 17:44

chickens, aeroplanes, splinters, rizla papers, tyres, match boxes, sea water, cordite, owls, seat belts, meteors, crazy paving, scientologists, thunderclouds, emery boards, cuckoo spit, nail clippings, wigs/merkins, uranium, plutonium, intangible concepts (justice, freedom etc.), string, pianos, marquees, engine oil, theatre, fabric softener, toboggans, energy saving bulbs, charcoal, roofing felt...

Thats about it, I assure you everything else will make superb wine.  :lol:

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: seadart on June 09, 2007, 18:54

I was really looking forward to Piano Wine too! A nice little number with a hint of woodworm! :lol:  :lol:

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: WG. on June 09, 2007, 23:29

I must disagree hotterotter, I'm sure someone out there must have a wine recipe for scientologists  ... its not as if you can use them for anything else ...  :evil:

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: DD. on June 10, 2007, 06:03

I'd like to at least try to make merkin wine. Would be quite fun harvesting them I'd imagine.

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: WG. on June 10, 2007, 07:13

Quote from: "Digger Dave"

I'd like to at least try to make merkin wine. Would be quite fun harvesting them I'd imagine.

Don't complain on here about hair sticking between your teeth !

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: DD. on June 10, 2007, 07:30

Quote from: "whisky_golf"

Don't complain on here about hair sticking between your teeth !

Teeth?  What teeth??

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: WG. on June 10, 2007, 08:14

:lol:  :lol:

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: hotterotter on June 10, 2007, 12:40

Quote from: "whisky_golf"

I must disagree hotterotter, I'm sure someone out there must have a wine recipe for scientologists  ... its not as if you can use them for anything else ...  :evil:

I don't know they make a superb compost activator

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: WG. on June 10, 2007, 12:58

:lol:  :lol:

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: Esme on June 22, 2007, 22:02

One of my friends made wine from cornflakes, he reckoned that as they are grain it should work and it did - bit bland though
I'm toying with the idea of making onion wine cos i have enough djs to waste one and who knows? Could be interesting...

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: wisp on June 23, 2007, 01:25

I read somewhere on the net that if you followed the recipe [google onion wine recipe - I think there's only one] and said nothing to your tasters, they'd be hard-fetched to tell it was onion. By all accounts, quite nice.

Now don't blame me if you try it. I'm just passing on my literary experience! :D

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: Esme on June 23, 2007, 10:10

Thanks, I'll look it up, have a feeling it should be nice enough cos onions are al starch and sugar anyway.

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: Celtic Eagle on July 01, 2007, 18:42

Provided it ain't poisonous you can make wine out of most things won't comment on the taste or quality though. I've tried tomatoe well least said soonest mended

Seriously if it gives a taste and isn't dangerously poisonous (lists available on the web) try it

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: jackiestagg on July 01, 2007, 21:09

never thought about this one before - but alcohol is sugar + yeast, so anything with sugar in should work. I'm sure most stuff has been tried, the reason you don't see the recipe for something is because its been tried and isn't worth the bother.

Best one this month is honeysuckle - well worth the trouble and ready by Christmas

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: KathyH on August 19, 2007, 16:56

Seriously though folks - you can't make wine from nuts apparently.
The oil in nuts makes it really horrible.

Of course if the nuts in question are scientologists .... who knows  :wink:

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: Sally A on August 19, 2007, 17:54

I have some hazelnut liqueur in my cupboard.

How does that work then?

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: KathyH on August 19, 2007, 18:43

Maybe its done with a flavouring and not from the nuts used direct?

All the wine sites I lurk on seem to reckon making it yourself from nuts isn't possible <shrug> :?
Apparently you just get a nasty oil slick on it.

Title: Wine from anything
Post by: muntjac on August 19, 2007, 23:07

Quote from: "whisky_golf"

I must disagree hotterotter, I'm sure someone out there must have a wine recipe for scientologists  ... its not as if you can use them for anything else ...  :evil:

 but then agin aint they always W ....INEING the media is doing a vendettta agin em ,and real people dont understand that the martians only left them with half a brain cell  :lol: