Recent content by Noodleman

Herrow! I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions on the cheapest place to bulk buy honey at a reasonable price. I want to make up a large batch which will require 5-7 gallons (23 - 32 Liters) of honey. Cheers

I've been making beers from grains for a couple of years, I currently have a 20L pot I use for mashing with a large gas burner and I use cool boxes as a tun. I filter out the grains later int he process by hand This method has worked well for me, but I find myself having to make multiple...

In all honesty, I haven't tried any of them yet other than a quick sample in the bottle process. Was happy with all of them. I ended up with 50 bottles which have all been put away to mature for a minimum of 9 months before I will open and most likely it will all be gone in a month ;) I still...

This was also my first year of trying this out, thank you Jonny69 for sharing the steps you follow, nice and easy :) Mines been sat clearing for quite a while now, I left it in the DJ's after the initial racking. Some I added apple juice to, some pear juice and others left as just blackberry...

Afternoon all, I had a few buckets of mixed apples towards the end of September, I made a press and made cider from them. The cider was started on the 10th of September. I spent quite a bit of time bumping up the alcohol content of this batch by adding extra sugar over a few weeks. I pushed the...

The result is here! I noticed that the wine had cleared quite a bit today and as I was bottling some other brew and had the filter to hand I ran the skittle wine through it and bottled it. as this was only a test batch, I only made half a gallon, or 2 and a half bottles. 2 bottles have...

it has been a few weeks since my last update, I checked on the skittles wine today, and was surprised to find that it has started to clear by itself. Note, I say "started". it is not clear yet. It now has the colour of a washed out red, almost orange. I can't wait to see what the final colour...

I considered this too, but then I thought as this is being made from skittles it is very appropriate :) I guess the next update will be in a couple of weeks.

I checked in on this brew today, and am pleasantly surprised. In the DJ the colour looked crappy, but after drawing a sample and checking against the light from the kitchen window it looks like a Rosé and loses that brown tint. My hope is that when it starts to clear more it will become a soft...

nope, I got back to thinking again :wha: *head explodes* hehe. Just a final (I hope) follow up question. I know the answer to this may vary, but I am trying to get an idea of "short period" from your earlier answer. My assumption was 24-48 hours, but I just wanted to check :)...

racking + campden it is :) Thank you for your information.

thanks for your reply, I appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions. Would there be any reason why I could not skip the racking I had planned for tomorrow, and just add directly to bottles? Assuming I rack as planned tomorrow and I add a campden tablet, should I wait a while before...

Evening all, I've only gone and started to over think everything again, which usually ends in confusion, so just looking for some guidance to de-clutter my thought process :) I've got a couple different wines which are currently sat in DJ's. They were started on the 10th of August. Both are...

Thank you for your detailed answer. A couple follow up questions :) When the beer is clearing, will it throw some sediment like wine does? Wouldn't adding the extra (although small dose) of sugar cause fermentation again, and the build up of co2 would pop the caps on the bottles? or, because...

Thanks Matt, I haven't started the kit yet, just planning the entire process so I have no hidden surprised. When adding to bottles, I assume at this stage this is the "final" bottling? The next time it gets opened is when I have a hankering for a beer :) Thanks,