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Fantastic elderflower harvest – champagne time!

Can’t remember seeing such a great display of elderflowers.  My wife has been very busy making up some concotions for both fermentation and for cordials.  Last year I followed this recipe.  This year I’ll be doing something similar but I will be adding all manner of things that I find in the garden or in the [...]

Racking off the elderflower champagne

I have  to say that although this may seem like stating the obvious the the choice of yeast when brewing is vital.  I’m a novice to hedgerow wines but for elderflower the champagne yeast is really working it’s way through the sugars in the water.  Today I racked off from the fermenting bin (with the [...]

Elderflower champagne

I’m going to try and make some elderflower champagne before the heads of the flowers turn too much.  We have a lot of raspberries as well at the moment so will be adding rasperry pulp to add a little colour and some fantastic flavours.  I’m going to use the recipe  I found here. 

Update:  I [...]