Yeeha, check this out!! This morning we've washed bottles, stripped labels, steralised all surfaces, bottles, equipment and FINALLY were ready to strain the liquid off the fruit and flowers and bottle the stuff. We poured it through muslin into a clean container and then syphoned it into the bottles... easier said than done... I have a kitchen floor to clean after I've written this entry! However there was still plenty made it into the bottles to make 11 x champagne bottles, 2 x swing tops, 4 x 2 litre pop bottles and 1 x 1 litre pop bottles - all full of our very pink champagne! Oh and just enough for 2 little glasses for us to taste our hard work...
Tasting notes:
mmmmm!! Its another very sweet elderflowery brew, perhaps a little too sweet but hopefully this will fade at least a bit as it ages in the bottles. Hearteningly it has the first beginnings of fizz, can't wait to see how it develops.
What Gravity did you bottle it at??
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ReplyDeletewow! bottle bombs ahoy!!!
ReplyDeleteChill Winston, its all an experiment - this ones all natural, no added yeast, no nutrient so no wild ferenting going on. We wouldn't be bottling eldeflower no. 1 at that!!
ReplyDeleteahhh I see sorry thought it was number 1 mix!!! phew! ;-)
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