Pea Pod Wine

This I started on 13 July 2002 following a recipe I found on Jack Keller's excellent site

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If you have already read the nettle page and were put off by my reports of the smell then I would recommend you avoid this one as it smells even worse and doesn't improve nearly so quickly!

Fermenting well but very cloudy... almost milky looking. Moved into the secondary fermentation vessel. I will now leave it alone until fermentation has finished! However long it takes!

Checked the specific gravity which read .990 so just to make sure I stabilised!

Nowhere near clear but just out of interest thought I would sample some to see how it was going. I also persuaded my hubby to have a try and when he'd finished pulling strange faces he described the taste as "rancid cat"!!! How he'd know is beyond me but I have to admit it tasted awful!

Added approx a teaspoonful of sugar to half a standard glass of wine and that made it much more palatable so have added about 1lb of sugar to the gallon I made and will leave it alone...

Believe me, it can only improve!!

This is now sorbated and sweetened and has been sat untouched for a month in the demijohn...

Nothing seems to have happened at all..no clearing from the top nothing.... will keep waiting!

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