Elder Flower Champagne

[joe.ford]

Just seen this thread.

Someone I give a lift to work to gave me a bottle of elderflower champagne that she made recently (she usually "pays" for the lift in cake!). Lovely stuff! Gotta give it a go myself next year.

still flowers about if you look hard enough

 

[marcelxl]

We did a batch last year and llost nearly half to "bottle bombs"! and we are about to embark on this years batch.

Incidently we had a bottle left undrunk from last year that got cracked open last weekend and, expecting vinegar was quite surprised to find a rather pleasant tasting brew still. Albeit VEEEERRRRYYYYY fizzy!

What you all using for the bottling please as we are concerned after what happened last year? (we used re-cycled champagne bottles, plastic corks and cages)

 

[John Fenna]

I now use PET bottles - if a plastic bottle bursts it does not send out leathal shrapnel!
Coke and cider bottles are built to hold a lot of pressure.....

 

[HHazeldean]

I make mine in proper pressure kegs that I picked up from a local brewing supplies and they work great!!

 

[John Fenna]

I make mine in proper pressure kegs that I picked up from a local brewing supplies and they work great!!

Cider bottles cost little and come with a free 2 liters of cider......

 

[HHazeldean]

Cider bottles cost little and come with a free 2 liters of cider......

To be fair, that is an added bonus.....

 

[Kepis]

we are just using 2L plastic soft drinks bottles

 

[Dimmock]

I accidently let my specific gravity get too low. As a result it is barely sparkling. Got another bre on the go tho with the last of the elderflowers I found

 

[FreedomandTruth]

Hi
Quite new to this! I made some elderflower wine 2 weeks ago. It is quite alcoholic and delicious!
I made it without brewers yeast- relying on the natural yeast on the flowers.

However after sampling this delicious drink I became worried there may have been 'nasties' in there....
oops!

Does anyone know if the alcohol in the brew will have killed off any nasty bugs? I had an egg cup full
and felt pleasantly relaxed all evening haha.

Thanks