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Title: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on December 21, 2013, 11:11:15 AM

Once again, a huge thanks to HomeBrewWest (http://www.homebrewwest.ie) for putting these kits up for raffle.
I tip my hat to you Sir Brian :)
In exchange, each winner will write a review of the kit on our forums.

Because wine takes so long to condition, the reviews should start early with packaging, ingredients, instructions, must, yeast etc and evolve at different stages of brewing.
This is a really good opportunity to try your hand at wine making as there will be other people brewing and documenting similar kits at the same time.

Eligibility as usual is:

You must be a full member
You must have written a decent guide/review/instructional/frontpage-article on the NHC forums or frontpage (link it on entry)
Agree to write an early review of the kit and update it as you go.
You must have or get the required equipment (demijohn or something similar)
more on eligibility (http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,4020.msg50602.html#msg50602)

(http://www.homebrewwest.ie/ekmps/shops/homebrewwest/images/muntons-strawberry-country-wine-kit-6-bottle-3205-p.jpg)

So here it is.. our first Wine Raffle!

The prizes are the following 6 bottle wine kits:
Muntons Chardonnay 6 Bottle Wine Kit (http://www.homebrewwest.ie/better-brew-6-bottle-wine-kit-45-litre-chardonnay-2929-p.asp)
Muntons Black Cherry Country Wine Kit 6 Bottle (http://www.homebrewwest.ie/muntons-black-cherry-country-wine-kit-6-bottle-3203-p.asp)
Muntons Elderberry Country Wine Kit 6 Bottle (http://www.homebrewwest.ie/muntons-elderberry-country-wine-kit-6-bottle-3204-p.asp)
Muntons Elderflower Country Wine Kit 6 Bottle (http://www.homebrewwest.ie/muntons-elderflower-country-wine-kit-6-bottle-3206-p.asp)
Muntons Strawberry Country Wine Kit 6 Bottle (http://www.homebrewwest.ie/muntons-strawberry-country-wine-kit-6-bottle-3205-p.asp)

The country wine kits (http://www.homebrewwest.ie/6-bottle-country-wine-kits-305-c.asp)are valued at €9.95 each, and grape wine kits (http://www.homebrewwest.ie/6-bottle-wine-kits-223-c.asp) start at €12.95. Pretty good for 6 bottles of wine :)
Quote from: HomeBrewWest.ieA superb range of traditional homemade country wine kits. The wines are fresh, zesty and have a complexity rarely found in homemade wine kits.
Six bottle wine kits will enable you to cellar a wide variety of wines.

Best of luck to everyone that enters.
The raffle will close on Sunday the 29th.
If you've not yet written a guide/review/how-to/frontpage-article, get cracking.
If you already have, link one of them with your entry.

I'll be raffling each kit individually. One kit per winner. So include your order of preference in your entry, simply omit any you're not interested in.
ie:
1 - MemberName, kits you'd like (in order of preference), link to your article/how-to/review/guide/etc
eg:
1 - LordEoin, elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay, How to Kit Hack (http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,2732.0.html)

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on December 21, 2013, 11:12:42 AM

# - MemberName, kits you'd like (in order of preference), link to one of your article/how-to/review/guide/etc

1 - LordEoin, elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay, How to Kit Hack (http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,2732.0.html)

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: Damo on December 21, 2013, 08:36:59 PM

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: Chris on December 21, 2013, 09:08:42 PM

1 - LordEoin, elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay, How to Kit Hack
2 - Tube, Black Cherry, Happy Birthday
3 - Damo, elderberry, strawberry, cherry, elderflower and chardonnay http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/inaugural-meet-up-of-gargen-county-brewers/
4. CrsZ00 elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay, (http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/inaugural-meet-up-of-gargen-county-brewers/)

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: Will_D on December 21, 2013, 11:54:45 PM

1 - LordEoin, elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay, How to Kit Hack
2 - Tube, Black Cherry, Happy Birthday
3 - Damo, elderberry, strawberry, cherry, elderflower and chardonnay http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/inaugural-meet-up-of-gargen-county-brewers/
4. CrsZ00 elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay,
5. Will_D Any of the kits http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/wiki/doku.php?id=equipment_atoz
(http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/inaugural-meet-up-of-gargen-county-brewers/)

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: DrowningManatee on December 22, 2013, 04:17:26 PM

1 - LordEoin, elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay, How to Kit Hack
2 - Tube, Black Cherry, Happy Birthday
3 - Damo, elderberry, strawberry, cherry, elderflower and chardonnay http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/inaugural-meet-up-of-gargen-county-brewers/
4. CrsZ00 elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay,
5. Will_D Any of the kits http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/wiki/doku.php?id=equipment_atoz
6 - Drowningmanatee - any kit - did a writeup and took pics for one of the meets, cant seem to work out how to find a link, sorry

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on December 24, 2013, 10:59:47 AM

1 - LordEoin, elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay, http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,2732.0.html
2 - Tube, Black Cherry, http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/happy-birthday/
3 - Damo, elderberry, strawberry, cherry, elderflower and chardonnay http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/inaugural-meet-up-of-gargen-county-brewers/
4. CrsZ00 elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay,
5. Will_D Any of the kits http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/wiki/doku.php?id=equipment_atoz
6 - Drowningmanatee - any kit - http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,5124.0.html

Replaced any masked links with URLs so that folks can reply or quote without breaking links.
CrsZ00, make sure to stick in a link to your review/guide/article before sunday for eligibility.

Title: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: pob on December 24, 2013, 11:42:25 AM

1 - LordEoin, elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay, http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,2732.0.html
2 - Tube, Black Cherry, http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/happy-birthday/
3 - Damo, elderberry, strawberry, cherry, elderflower and chardonnay http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/inaugural-meet-up-of-gargen-county-brewers/
4. CrsZ00 elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay,
5. Will_D Any of the kits http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/wiki/doku.php?id=equipment_atoz
6 - Drowningmanatee - any kit - http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,5124.0.html
7. Pob, any kit, http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php?topic=4729

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: Garry on December 26, 2013, 02:09:37 PM

1 - LordEoin, elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay, http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,2732.0.html
2 - Tube, Black Cherry, http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/happy-birthday/
3 - Damo, elderberry, strawberry, cherry, elderflower and chardonnay http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/inaugural-meet-up-of-gargen-county-brewers/
4. CrsZ00 elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay,
5. Will_D Any of the kits http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/wiki/doku.php?id=equipment_atoz
6 - Drowningmanatee - any kit - http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,5124.0.html
7. Pob, any kit, http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php?topic=4729
8. Garry, elderberry strawberry cherry elderflower chardonnay, http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,697.0.html

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: Garry on December 26, 2013, 02:13:42 PM

How many kits are up for grabs? It looks like 5? The odds are good so far ;D

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on December 29, 2013, 12:45:15 PM

and the winners are, based on http://www.random.org/ drumroll.....

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on December 29, 2013, 12:45:30 PM

Will_D

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on December 29, 2013, 12:45:45 PM

LordEoin

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on December 29, 2013, 12:46:14 PM

Pob

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on December 29, 2013, 12:46:44 PM

Will_D

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on December 29, 2013, 12:47:20 PM

Will_D

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on December 29, 2013, 12:47:51 PM

Damo

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on December 29, 2013, 12:48:22 PM

iTube

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on December 29, 2013, 12:53:37 PM

Will_D dominating the RNG! That leaves the winners as:

Will_D - Well_Done
LordEoin - *$%^ nepotism
Pob - No Poblem
Damo - I'm all punned out...
iTube - iCongratulate you

Tube put Black Cherry as first choice. Damo put elderberry. I'll go with my second choice of Strawberry.
Will and Pob, any preference between elderflower and chardonnay?
First come first served.

Everybody, please PM me:
Your full name
Your postal adress
Your phone number
Your email address

Well done to everyone and hard luck to Garry and DrowningManatee. May the RNG shine upon you next time!

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: pob on December 29, 2013, 01:38:38 PM

Chardonnay, please

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: Will_D on December 29, 2013, 02:13:58 PM

Delighted with the Elderflower

Many thanks to every one!

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: Damo on December 29, 2013, 04:23:33 PM

Nice one ;D

Thanks to all involved.

May I suggest that Pob's and mine can be shipped to one address.

Pm to follow

Thanks

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on December 29, 2013, 09:53:03 PM

anybody who's putting in orders with HBW anyway, email sales@homebrewwest.com to have the wine kit added to your order.
check your PMs

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: Will_D on January 23, 2014, 04:48:28 PM

Many Thanks to HBW and LE.

My Elderflower and Tubes Balck Cherry arrived today!

@Tubomyces: What do want to do about yours?

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: LordEoin on January 23, 2014, 06:43:33 PM

Fantastic! That wraps up all deliveries for this, the first and only wine raffle!:)
I look forward to seeing everyone's progress :)

Thanks again HBW. When I see you I'll buy you a pint (OF WINE!!!) ;D ;D

Title: Re: [WINE RAFFLE] Muntons 6 Bottle Country Wine Kits, from HomeBrewWest
Post by: Will_D on January 23, 2014, 07:50:05 PM

Naturally!

Please send me a reminder though!

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