[aqua]

is there any reason for using clear bottles?

[mike1987]

is there any reason for using clear bottles?

yea it means you can see wjen it has cleared theres no reason to not use coloured bottles tho

[MoreWhisky]

is there any reason for using clear bottles?

yea it means you can see wjen it has cleared theres no reason to not use coloured bottles tho

or wait until its cleared lol

[aqua]

thank you - i did mean clear glass and you answered my question - coloured glass bottles are cheaper.

[mike1987]

is there any reason for using clear bottles?

yea it means you can see wjen it has cleared theres no reason to not use coloured bottles tho

or wait until its cleared lol

tryed waiting last year and i left it too long couldnt get it to prime so i had to make a yeast starter

[aqua]

how did you freeze the flowers?  for future note. I think the readers should be told.

[arugula]

You can freeze elderflowers open on flat trays, then bag once frozen in much the same way as you can freeze chunks of rhubarb or raspberries, for instance.

[mike1987]

how did you freeze the flowers?  for future note. I think the readers should be told.

i leave them stalks and all on a tray i find its easer to remove the flowers when frozen

[aqua]

thank you that is useful

[Growster...]

Just a quick o/t comment, I bought some Ritchies wine yeast a couple of days ago, and made up a starter bottle, expecting it to wait at least a day.

It got going within one minute! Yup, just a few seconds, which is unheard of in my experience! And it wasn't just initial fizzing, it went into a five gal container a couple of hours later and that just went like the clappers as well!

As an experiment, I'm trying a couple of pints of water, sugar and citric, with a half teaspoon, just to see if it is not a one off!

[mike1987]

most good wine yeasts will start off verry fast when presented with ideal  conditions
as far as im aware the amount of sugar in your wine must will atcually slow down the yeast to start with due to some complicated process in wich the yeast cant rehydrate as fast    ive never heard of one take as fast as yours has the fastest one ive had was arround 10 mins and i was impressed with that

[pete.neale]

Hi sugar 68p at home bargains. Might try the elderflower wine after reading this new forum.
i;m lucky enough to be looking at the flowers now.
pete

[MoreWhisky]

Im going to be opening a bottle of batch 2 variety shortly  i made a few tweeks from batch 1 so im looking forward to the results.

[Growster...]

That's interesting Mike. I think it's something to do with the yeast producing too much alcohol too early on in a fermentation, and 'choking' the matrix.

It is decidedly quicker that I think I've ever seen before, but we'll see how it finishes...

The conditions were as usual, warm water, not too much citric, no energiser, couple of tsps of yeast, so maybe this is the one that pops in early for a change!

[aqua]

my batch tasted great but even though i put it in the right type of bottles etc the fizz had gone. why is this?