Gooseberry Wine

[Del the cat]

Just made up a gallon, found a recipe on t'web... it included a hand full of rasins (I used sultanas) a sliced lemon a teabag (Well I am British after all!!) an yeast. No chemicals,
Hopefully I'll be enjoying it one warm spring afternoon next year.
Del

[Knotty]

I saw many of those recipes, but be careful!
Make sure you leave it air-sealed for the right amount of time, it doesn't take much for your "wine" to become a vodka type liquid.

[Del the cat]

I saw many of those recipes, but be careful!
Make sure you leave it air-sealed for the right amount of time, it doesn't take much for your "wine" to become a vodka type liquid.

The problem being?
Del

[mullet]

Doing the same thing, got some Lemon Meade and Hard Spiced Cider bottled and sitting. And have around 20# of Blueberries some black berries and picking Muscadine grapes, both hybrids and wild right now for hopefully a 5 gallon batch. Drink On!

[Marc St Louis]

Don't much care for the taste of alcoholic drinks so can't relate there but here is a tidbit of information.  Gooseberries were the premier source for pectin in the old days so your wine may gel 

[Chippintuff]

I hope you know what was meant by "air-sealed". Do NOT screw the lid down tight. It will explode. Put a "water trap" seal on it so the CO2 can blow off without letting stray bacteria get in. The "vodka taste" is actually the taste of wine gone bad. Not fit to drink.

WA

[Del the cat]

It's covered but not sealed at the moment, once it's had a few days I'll strain it into a demijohn with an airlock.
@ Marc
Wine jelly ... hmm, might make a nice sauce on deserts 
Del

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Nice, I've made a few batches here and there of apple wine and was thinking about muscadines as they're coming into season here soon...

[mullet]

I've picked a gallon so far.

[wizardgoat]

I'm not a huge drinker, in fact I rarely do, a few summers ago I visited a meadery and was obsessed with mead for a while. I brewed a bunch, I have 40 something bottles and I haven't opened one yet.
I have a few friends that are really into it, a little too into it haha

[mullet]

That Meade gets better the longer it sits.

[wizardgoat]

For sure Eddie, this batch will last me many years I'm sure

[penderbender]

Made a whole bunch of salmon berry wine one time a few years back....very good stuff, it never lasted long.

[Knotty]

@Del , didn't read your reply, I'm sorry.

The problem being: Once Yeast is activated with the sugar from raisins, if not sealed , it will advance alot quicker into consuming the sugars , transforming them into Alchohol.

[Del the cat]

@Del , didn't read your reply, I'm sorry.

The problem being: Once Yeast is activated with the sugar from raisins, if not sealed , it will advance alot quicker into consuming the sugars , transforming them into Alchohol.

That's ok, my response was s'posed to be funny 
Del