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Current Brews

I have recently been brewing a lot of my own wine, but haven't been recording any of my bastardised recipes anywhere. I'm starting this blog in case of the unlikely event that something I make is actually drinkable and I wish to make some more. 

 Current Brews: 

Bottled:
1 gal red - early harvest of grapes, was probably left on lees too long and is likely horrid
1 gal rosé - second press of same grapes from red

 In Demijohns:
1 gal mead - made from Grandfather's honey
1.5 gal red - late harvest of grapes
2 gal apple and blueberry wine - made with cooking apples and blueberries, backsweetened, very pink
1 gal 'instant' wine - made with grapefruit juice and malt extract 
1 gal  raisin and wheat wine - brown, made with demerara sugar 

 In Primary:
1 gal apricot - made with tinned apricots and wheat 

 Future Brews:

Barley wine
'Cheshire homebrew' (beer)

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