Winemaking
For years I’ve made my own wine. Not using those kits that you can buy, I go out into the woods and pick leaves and berries. I’ve currently got 8 demijohns on the go; 2 elderberry, 4 parsnip and 2 oak leaf (ok, I bought the parsnips from Tesco). When bottled, each demijohn will produce about 5 bottles. At any one time, I’ll have 50 – 100 bottles lying around the house, some are 15 years old.

I like doing the more obscure wines. Over the years I’ve made gorse flower, rowan, oak leaf, broom flower, haw, coltsfoot, nettle, pea pod (a favourite of Tom & Barbara Good of course!), birch sap and sycamore sap to name a few, as well as the more common country wines such as elderberry, blackberry, cherry, sloe and so on.

It may not be all that obsolete really, but at least it’s not about fucking cheat codes.
(Lionel Tiger, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 21:02, 19 replies)

Ok I've partaken in the odd glass of elderflower, rhubarb, and even parsnip "champagne" in my time....
But what on earth does Oak Leaf wine taste like? Sounds positively Druidic!
( The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 21:32, closed)

Its a light and very tasty wine, not unlike nettle!
(Lionel Tiger, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 21:49, closed)

..
Have you got a recipe for that?
( speedyballbangpots, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 22:05, closed)

"Wild Food" by Roger Phillips
(Lionel Tiger, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 22:11, closed)

Did
rice wine about 20 years ago - powerful stuff.
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 21:43, closed)

good idea
I think I'll give that one a try!
(Lionel Tiger, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 21:55, closed)

Don't
make wine from oranges - it's disgusting.

Edit. but try rose hip - splendid.
( social hand grenade I was a lurker before you were a lurker, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 22:01, closed)

Tch tch, there's no need for such belligerent trolling.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 5 Jul 2011, 22:16, closed)

Reminds me of Reggie Perrin
Or more specifically, his brother-in-law Tom.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 1:00, closed)

I can't believe you'd bully all these desperate shut-ins with your tales of getting outside and doing things.
You awful awful bastard.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 8:42, closed)

10 PRINT "WHERE'S MY FUCKING CHEAT CODE?"

( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 9:01, closed)

Super Winemaker
up up left left down left right X Y A B

gives you infinite wine and lvl 80 winemaking skill. You need a game genie for extra demijohns though.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 10:16, closed)

and +13 polished Elven airlock of greater drunkeness.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 14:27, closed)

are there really cheat codes for fucking?
for christ's sake don't let the wobblers know, or they might get to reproduce..
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 14:25, closed)

up down up down squinty-face apologise

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 17:07, closed)

^WIN

(square go, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 19:55, closed)

I'm going to go out on a limb
and say that all those wines taste horrible.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 20:50, closed)

actually no
most of my wines are very nice. Parsnip and elderberry are particular favourites, both are very good.
Ive only ever had a few failures. I did potato wine once which was undrinkable. Tasted like fermented soil!
(Lionel Tiger, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 21:07, closed)

Cellar
I still have 3 bottles of wild apple wine i made 20 years ago sitting in my cellar. I don't dare open them as i'm not sure what's living inside.
(Smale is stuffed, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 10:20, closed)