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The most disgusting wine I ever made was Pee pod wine errr Pea pod !
The most alcoholic brew my husband made beer in a too small bucket so compromised using less water, explosive stuff, a neighbour had difficulty getting home, only next door !

Hi NB,
We had a Christmas Party on line here a few years ago and Richard P introduced us all to Sprout Wine. These were very happy days on this forum and one day they will return of this I an convinced.
However we all suffered from drinking this wine and the thread ran for weeks. Great fun!
JB.

Morning Johnboy

Are you thinking of Lizzie's tea party?

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...or was it Grock's PARTY?

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Thank you for the links guys. Maybe oldies and newbies should have a good knees up together this Christmas Eve !

Well certainly the most disgusting wines we ever made in the days of our early married life were potato wine and carrot wine. We just looked through the Winemaking recipe books for the cheapest ingredients and tried them. They both cleared well but in those days we probably didn't have the head for alcohol that has developed slowly over the years and they were so strong that even a small glass of the stuff nearly grounded us. In retrospect, they might have developed into something drinkable if only we'd had the patience to put them away and forget about them them but I'm afraid they substitute for Harpic in the end.

Elderberry can be pretty awful in the early days and patience is definitely the watchword here. We once moved house shortly after making about 15 demijohns of the stuff, stored them at the back of our new garage and forgot about them for about several years. By that time the tannin had disappeared and they'd turned into a really decent red wine.
Patience these days last just about long enough to get a bottle of wine home from the supermarket before drinking it.

On the topic of dreadful alcoholic drinks, I came across an amusing tale in one of Jeffery Archer's Prison Diaries. Apparently the warders had to ban Marmite from sale in the canteens as one of the prisoners' privileged purchases from their meagre earnings because large dollops of it were being used for ilicit brewing purposes because of the yeast in it. Marmite wine! . Yuk!

Ooops, a substitute for harpic - we should have a smiley for laughed till I cried Primrose ! Did you try elderflower wine too? We have elder in the wild patch at the end of the garden, this year it flowered well but the berries shrivelled very quickly l