Recent content by zutman

its looking like I’m going to end up with around 60kgs of red grapes from my vines and they taste so sweet anyhow can you recommend a red wine recipe as I’ve only got one chance to try and get it right .. Thanks

well ive just done my second ciderworks kit from love brewing and both have turned out bad very upsetting, so time to move on any good reviews on a good cider kit to try. its mad because i always brewed in a brew fridge and have never had a problem with dozens of brews apart from this one, i...

Mmmmm yes prosecco is impossible to make at home but it is possible to make a sparkling wine and lots of ways of doing it all I'm saying is my method is to filter the dry white wine that I've made and force carbonate it and there's lots of ways in doing that depends how deep your pockets are. If...

Chill it then zap it , I did a bad thing :-?:-? Got an empty prosecco bottle and filled it no one blinked an eye lid apart from me haven't looked into the production of prosecco but I would say that's how they produce it any how (on a larger scale) happy days

Your Gona hate me for this but I brew any Italian dry white wine and bang in in the soda stream when needed and its bang on got this tip from one of Heston Blumenthal tv shows you can't tell the difference.

Thanks I have nailed it took a photo of the box re sized on photoshop then did as you said in word imported worked fantastic http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=10528&stc=1&d=1507057969

Thanks I will have a look at that I do want them to look the part

Thanks I will have a go with word and that would be great a template cheers

can anyone help with printing my own bottle labels, ive bought lots of different size labels and cant find any software that prints the correct size ive got 6 labels on an A4 each label is 105 x 99 i think im going mad :doh:

Ah yes good idea thanks

When brewing lager my buckets leak which I get is ok for primary but I will be dropping temp down to lager for a few weeks or so does the fact that these dam bucket lids leak make for problems over the long lager period ?

Thanks for that if I pitched the yeast at your ferment temp would it make any difference

Coopers European Lager with BE2 + kit yeat & Saflager S23. Fermented for 14 days at 13C, then 3 days at 17.5C. Lagered for 3 weeks at 4.5C. 2 weeks in the house for 2nd fermentation and another 2-3 weeks conditioning. I'm going for this method that was posted by Robsparky99 not sure how he...

Looks gr8 how did you pitch the yeast and at what temp did you pitch it ?

well ive just been and got another lager kit because i can get 2 fermenters in my fridge and we wouldnt want to waste that space therfore i do want to try and get this right or its 80 pints on the flower bed LOL pitch high pitch low OMG well at least i know how to re hydrate the yeast, looks...