Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Homebrew => Topic started by: maxibo on October 18, 2013, 20:56
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I've just bottled up a Cellar 7 Cabernet Sauvignon 7 day kit. It was my first go at Homebrew and has been a great success so with that in mind I popped into my local Tesco Homeplus store to check out the Winebuddy kits that Mr G has posted about on here. To my delight the 30 bottle kits were on offer for wait for it....... £5.50!!!!! They didn't have the Chardonnay but did have the Sauvignon Blanc and it would have rude not to buy one..... ;)
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Hey, Maxi..., that's an incredible deal, well done, that person!
I'd have bought the Sauvignon at £5.50, even if I didn't like it!
We bought two Chardonnay at full price on Thursday, and the racket the first one is making, is just amazing! We found that although you can pop a bottle after three hours maturing, it does improve even more after about three weeks...
But the first lot has gone, so we'll have to wait another few hours!
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Well, I reckon that once I've bought the brewers sugar (about £8 from Wilko's) if I get 25 75cl bottles from the kit it'll work out at about 54p/55p a bottle! Got to be worth a punt. The Sauvignon kit has got great reviews on the Tesco Direct website so I'm anticipating great things.
You are very restrained Mr G. I syhoned off a carafe of my red when I was bottling up on Tuesday afternoon for supping later on. Very nice too. I think I will pop back into Tesco over the weekend and see if any of the Chardonnay kits have appeared at that price.
I rather liked pressing my ear up to the door of the spare room, where my fermenter was situated, and hear it chuntering away.....rather like a sourdough starter its like having another pet!
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"You are very restrained Mr G. I syphoned off a carafe of my red when I was bottling up on Tuesday afternoon for supping later on"
Ha ha ha!
I think our record is immediate supping as well, but that wasn't recently, and also I had red wine all over the floor when the syphon came apart back then..;0)
I was totally amazed, when I peered into the five galloner, and could see the bottom as clear as anything, within 24 hours! Amazing!
I suppose it may be worth me getting the car out and driving to Bristol for a deal like yours! Excellent, Maxi, you're a star buyer!