Monster brew session!!

Tonight was the night for setting off our new brew experiments before the elderflower season is over for another year - as well as tending to no. 1 which has been brewing now for a week.

Elderflower Champagne no. 1 measured Specific Gravity 1.055, higher than we were expecting to be honest but it was still bubbling away so obviously still fermenting, and smelled fab! We decided to take it off the elferflowers etc. but leave it to ferment out a little more. A cheeky taste was strongly elderflower, quite sweet but very drinkable :o) Piccy above

We also put to brew our version of an Elderflower and gooseberry sparkling recipe adapted from a Truman recipe, details below, 1 gallon split between two demi johns as we're out of fermenting tubs.

After yesterdays pink champagne we also brewed up 24 litres of elder and summer fruit with mixed summer fruits of raspberry, blackberry, black and redcurrant substituting the pure blackcurrant the recipe called for. Its racked off and bottled real soon with no added yeast to hopefully become a low alcohol but very drinkable summer brew ready in 3 weeks!

All that brewing and its got very late... phew! We must be committed to the cause ;o)