{"id":67,"date":"2013-10-06T13:12:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T13:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2013-10-22T13:58:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T13:58:31","slug":"whining-about-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/whining-about-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Whining about wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2013-09-30<\/a>Towards the end of September 2013 I’d been gently encouraged to make wine with a friend’s grapes.\u00a0 I looked in to it and felt it was far too hard what with all the tools and additives you needed.\u00a0 Egged on by some home brew relations I plunged in to making something resembling wine with English grapes.\u00a0 I bought a hydrometer<\/a>, pectolase<\/a>, and a fermentation bucket<\/a> from May and Brett<\/a>\u00a0 and we filled it with grapes.\u00a0 I washed them and squashed them and ended up with a pitiful 4.5 litres of juice.\u00a0 Squashing them was a trial.\u00a0 I gave them a good fisting in the end.<\/p>\n

\"2013-09-30<\/a>The recipe said leave it for 24 hours and at the end we had something remarkably like grape juice.\u00a0 I sweetened it up to exactly 1080 using bog standard household sugar but measured it carefully using the instructions on the hydrometer.\u00a0 Once I got the calculation right I was fine!<\/p>\n

I whacked in the yeast and waited for action.\u00a0 This was frustrating because whilst it was clearly fermenting there was no bubbler action at all.\u00a0 (I later worked out that the bucket was not sealing at all.\u00a0 There was a blemish in the seal that I scraped off with a knife).<\/p>\n

\"Sweet<\/a>
Sweet wine juice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the end, I took advice from my father-in-law and we decanted it in to a demijohn.\u00a0 It bubbled away until the next stage – which will be clarifying somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Towards the end of September 2013 I’d been gently encouraged to make wine with a friend’s grapes.\u00a0 I looked in to it and felt it was far too hard what with all the tools and additives you needed.\u00a0 Egged on by some home brew relations I plunged in to making something resembling wine with English … Continue reading Whining about wine<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wine","tag-millers-gate-white-2013-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}