{"id":831,"date":"2014-06-09T12:13:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T12:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=831"},"modified":"2014-06-09T12:13:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T12:13:40","slug":"testing-the-elderflower-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/testing-the-elderflower-champagne\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing the Elderflower Champagne"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_832\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-832\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-832\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-09-12.59.27-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bulging bottle\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-09-12.59.27-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2014-06-09-12.59.27.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-832\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bulging bottle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It has been two weeks since I bottled the elderflower champagne.\u00a0 When it went in to the bottles there was absolutely no sign of any action at all with regards to fermentation.\u00a0 But a couple of days ago I was chatting with the guy at May and Brett&#8217;s and he said I should take a look and release pressure if needed.\u00a0 I am glad I did &#8211; the pressure was so high that the bottles were not really bottle shaped and were bulging out.\u00a0 you can sort of see in the photo that the bottle no longer has the defined ridge for the label &#8211; and this is AFTER easing off the pressure.<\/p>\n<p>I estimate the alcohol content of this to be about 3% (I forgot to do a gravity reading beforehand, so that is based on calculation only).\u00a0 It is definitely drinkable, though very elderflowery (surprise), two weeks after being started, but I think that next time I will ferment in the bucket for longer and maybe try some commercial champagne yeast to see if it makes a difference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been two weeks since I bottled the elderflower champagne.\u00a0 When it went in to the bottles there was absolutely no sign of any action at all with regards to fermentation.\u00a0 But a couple of days ago I was chatting with the guy at May and Brett&#8217;s and he said I should take a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/testing-the-elderflower-champagne\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Testing the Elderflower Champagne<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elderflower-champagne-2014-05"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}