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We started out with the best of intentions and ended up creating a monster. We wanted to produce a nice fruity
Plum wine and in the end produced bottle bombs.
For those who haven't followed the Plum wine brew, here's a quick recap. We came across an old recipe we had used about 13 years ago, and decided to give it another go. The only thing missing was the total volume and we assumed it would be about the 20L mark so that's what we used. Upon tasting after a lengthy fermentation, the plum taste was washed out so we made the decision to bump it up with some juice. Plum juice not being available we went for second best; grape juice about 4L worth.
After another lengthy fermentation and to avoid making too dry a wine we decided to kill off the yeast with some camden tablets
(about 7 or 8 I think it was ). That done after a couple of days we decided to bottle and all seemed well, the wine was tasting a bit grapey but not too bad.
Fast forward a month and the kitchen gets sprayed with Plum wine. Oh no, what had we done? A second bottle quickly followed ( this time over the bath ) and sure enough we'd created a monster.
Funnily enough once it's "breathed" so to speak, it's not too bad a drink and is excellent for marinades and sauteing mushrooms.
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