[digital_biscuit]

I have now ventured from the homebrew kits - which have been very good and great value for money, also, a great intro into wine making - and started my first of two different beetroot wines last night! Lovely colour!! Will keep you all posted with the progress!!!

[lobot]

Sounds good...I love beetroot.

I'd also be interested in how other people have got on with vegetable wines.
What do they taste like?

[digital_biscuit]

HELP!!!

Started this wine the other day and its soooooo slow!! Any advice on why this would be? Its my first non-kit wine so i have no ideas......

thanks

[digital_biscuit]

Just in case anyone else has similar problems i will post my remedy!

The juice had not undergone ANY fermentation as it was sickly sweet and the alcohol level really low. I added some restart yeast and all is now bubbling away!!

[Clampit]

Do you make a starter bottle for your yeast? It gets the yeast working before you add it to the main batch.

[Jay Dubya]

Hi, root wines are great parsnip is an old favourite but they need keeping for a while as for the stuck ferment it may be too much sugar, yeasts do not like a too sweet envirenment. Somone mensioned a starter bottle which is fine but if you start your wine off in a bucket you can just sprinkle a teaspoon of yeast on the surface because the large surface area of the bucket means an easy start, leave for a couple of days till working well and put in the demijohn.