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Rats, wrote without properly reading! I would still start with a simple AG and then look at moving into more complex types or anything which needs more particular conditions.

You don't need any fancy equipment, honestly. You need a huge saucepan and a few other bit and pieces. I couldn't explain in better than this thread; Have a go at simple AG

I'm a lazy bottler, so that isn't such a problem for me. I rack a couple of times if there is sediment, but basically I'm happy to leave the DJ at the back of the cupboard for a couple of months before I bother to bottle it. Often it's far longer- depends on how much wine i have and how much I...

I've never degassed wine and never had any problems because of it.

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When you sent the initial message about the fault, which option(message type) did you use? Was it the one about there being a fault, or was it the general message one? If you chose the option about there being a fault, then you have already opened a dispute (they call it a request now, but it's...

I use a hammer capper and I've never broken a bottle. I keep meaning to buy a lever-type capper but my brewing budget always seems to get eaten up by other things.

If you follow clibit's recipe for simple all grain beer, you don't need any special kit apart from a large pot (or you can split the liquid for the boil between two smaller pots). I just did my first batch and I think I might be hooked! I only wandered into the beer recipe section for a browse...

I'm sorry I forgot to post an intro straight away, rude of me. I'm 42 years old and I've been brewing since I was 19, with a break for my breeding years! I've just got back into it properly and my house is rapidly filling up with bubbling jars and buckets. My 13 year old is learning too now, but...

I'm 42, how did that happen? I swear that last week i was only 25. fortunately I have four children (aged 3,7,10 and 13) who keep me in a perpetual state of confusion so I never think about my age.

Haberdasher, winkle picker (seriously!), reluctant crofter and mother to four boys.

I'm north of the border too, but way out in the wilds of the Western Isles.