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Marine engineer for a local luxury yacht company . It has its perks .

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Another point to note that if you have used an ale yeast it will probably stop at about 1.010 which will leave you with a sweet cider if you leave it to age a bit .

I made one with 650 ml of strawberry Ribena with cider yeast and it fermented out to quite a sharp , dry tasting cider . I had to back sweeten with some Cologran sweetener . With the risk of making it taste too "artificial" it ended up still being quite a dry taste but next time I might add a...

Just a quick update on this , after the fermentation slowed down I racked off as a medium wine ( I forgot the FG reading ) and added the finings and had a quick taste as you do , although its very drinkable with a strong pineapple flavour there is not a hint of coconut so I added about 100g of...

This is how it was last weekend

2 L pear apple and grape 1 L Pinapple 1 L Coconut water (boil off preservatives first) 650g sugar 1 cup of tea (2 bags no milk) 5 ml Glycerine 1 TSP Yeast Nutrient 1 TSP Pectolase 1 pack of Youngs high alcohol wine yeast OG 1.092 I put this on last weekend and it has been bubbling away...

Thanks guys , and the LHBS does very well out of me . I seem to be in there every weekend .

I have got something similar on the go in one of my DJs . 4 L of value apple juice and 600ml of strawberry Ribena (not the sugar free) concentrate a cap full of glycerine and half a cup of tea with 2 bags (no milk of course) It was inspired by Brewmaster Ben and Uncle Jonas recipe from their...

Done this one myself recently . I used a brew enhancer kit instead of brewing sugar and it came out very well indeed . I get the odd bottle with a fragment of dry hop pellet but with a beer that tastes this good its a small price to pay .

As the title , Hi everyone , fairly new to home brewing . Bitten by the bug when I received a starter kit for my last birthday and have brewed and enjoyed a cider and an american amber ale . I currently have a strong country cider (Muntons kit that I modified ) in the fermentation bin...