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Grapes for wine first cultivated 8,000 years ago A genetics study finds that people first cultivated grapes for wine about 8,000 years ago. In the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Sean Myles of Cornell, looked at "1,000 samples of the domesticated grape...

Hi everyone, I have not posted for a while as I have been very busy with a new job as well as having the Lurgy over Xmas. This story caught my eye though What does an Iron Age beer taste like? Six specially constructed Early Celtic ditches previously excavated at Eberdingen-Hochdorf a...

Its time to pick the fruit of the Blackthorn. With this in mind my wife and I went out on Halloween to pick some sloes from an old hedge near us in Rutland. Gorgeous day for a walk with the local hunt pharping the distance we picked two kilos of lovely sloes. Once i got them home I...

Got this from here http://heritage.caledonianmercury.com/2 ... int/001566 Academics have pondered over why we began to cultivate cereal, and in particular barley, crops alongside our livestock around 4000 BC. Common sense dictates that these grains provided an ideal source of carbohydrate...

I had a eureka moment the other day when I realised the two large propagating trays I have for providing bottom heat for germinating seeds could be doubled up for the rest of the year as DJ heaters. Mine measure 54cm by 35cm (internal space) and I can get 5 DJs and two starter bottles in this...

Here is my recipe for 5 gallon of Ribena Wine. Its half price at my local co-op at the moment so the price came to £3. First buy two liters of Ribena (make sure it is the real stuff and not the sweetener added juice drinks). Pour the syrup into a pan and heat to 80 degrees for 10 mins to...

"But earthlier happy is the rose distilled Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." A Midsummer Night's Dream Eglantine is the old name for the common dog rose, that most traditional OF English flowers that produces in Autumn the vitamin C...

Hello every one I'm new to the forum, so i thought I would introduce myself. I'm Porky and am 48 years old and have been brewing on and off since i was 16 when i bought a blue bucket and 8 pint larger kit from Boots. It tasted of plastic and was horrible but I never looked back really. I tend...