red wine and champaigne making

[Bobbsy]

Ginger Ale (as opposed to ginger beer) looks almost exactly like champagne without the need to add burnt sugar etc.

 

Or, if you need a bottle to open on stage, my local Tesco does a very low alcohol "Perry" in a bottle of roughtly the right shape, including a foil wrapped cork with twist off wire etc. It's under £2 a bottle ISTR.

 

Bob

[Kate Bonney]

Boots sell all the things you need to make up 'unopened' bottles of wine or for recapping beer bottles in their home brew section so you can fill a bottle with ginger ale, appletise or whatever you choose for bubbly and open it on-stage. Don't think Moet do the bottles of pop anymore but will give you empties, corks and sleeves if you ask nicely.

 

Red wine: if you can't get what everyone else has suggested... water, red food colour and a tiny bit of green to give it body.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Kate

[James C]

Boots sell all the things you need to make up 'unopened' bottles of wine or for recapping beer bottles in their home brew section...

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Have you tried Boots recently? Just that (as an occasional wine-maker) I thought that Boots had stopped doing home-brew and wine-making gear. I'd be interested to know if some branches still do (none of my local ones do).

[the kid]

Does it need to be drunk? last time we used 'Champaigne' we used lemon jelly.

[peter]

Wilkinsons seem to stock a lot of home-brew stuff (corks, bottles, etc) - no use to Huw though, as theres no Wilkinsons in Cardiff :(

[Kate Bonney]

Boots sell all the things you need to make up 'unopened' bottles of wine or for recapping beer bottles in their home brew section...

 

 

 

Have you tried Boots recently? Just that (as an occasional wine-maker) I thought that Boots had stopped doing home-brew and wine-making gear. I'd be interested to know if some branches still do (none of my local ones do).

 

 

They did six months ago that's all I can say but then that's up here in Scotlandshire. Maybe they'll have it in for christmas??

[Freddie]

I was in a youth production over the summer and we used some kind of ASDA drink. It was the exact colour of red wine and was in a wine bottle, Can't remember the name though.

[GridGirl]

I've found that for red wine, Ribena with flat Coke added works well - the Coke makes it less transparent. I also used to add a couple of drops of blue food colouring to give it a bit more of a purple tinge. Works well, tastes fine (like a variant on Cherry Coke!) and looks good.

[justnicola]

The show I'm working on at the mo, we're using bottles of alcohol free brut by a company called LoNo, google search them.

If you don't have to have bottles that go pop, try ginger beer.

Hope this helps.

[erroneousblack]

Moet & Chandon always come up with the goods for me, write to them & tell them you'll credit them and they should send you some.

 

An amdram group who used to perform in a previous venue of mine had some bizarre notion that from the audience Tizer would look like champagne!!! No, it looked exactly like brightly lit Tizer!