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I remembered yesterday that there is a TINY pear flavouring sachet to add at this stage. I didnt think it would make much difference being so small but boy was I wrong! This stuff was super strong....There is no longer that rotten egg sort of smell but instead my brew smells like pear drops!! Ha...

Congrats indeed! I'll look forward to reading about your brew! Atleast you now have an excuse not to share it with the Mrs. Ha ha.

Oh ok that's good. I'll leave it and see how it goes :)

Yes it is kind of like that. A few days in I found a piece of plastic inside which I don't know where it came from! I think that might have contaminated it and now it's gone off.

It doesn't smell or taste nice to be honest :S I've seen the TC thread and as soon as I get this I'll start filling it with apple juic for a bash at that.

ok so its day 6 of my brew and it the fizzing seems to have settled alot. I just took a hydro reading and its in the yellow bottling limit but not quite at 1.000 yet. The thing is I have tasted a little and its horrible!!!! Should it be like that? - Should I have even tasted it? I have to go...

right, i better buy me another blanket then!

ok, thanks...ill keep it in my room which is around 20...

Thanks for all the advice. I've been ill lately so i'm a tad delayed in taking the next steps however I have just finished sticking it all in the fermenter :) I did change my mind about the juice though and used the sugar instead as I couldnt find pear juice anywhere and thought this could be...

crE - Thanks for the tip, I got the same juice as pictured with BrewStew to be on the safe side. :)

I've just gt back from Tesco to read your post. By chance I happened to buy 12 cartons of juice. Each contail 27.8g per 250ml so 111.2g per carton. Reading the leaflet again it sais to add 1.3KG of sugar so works out roughly 11 and a half cartons :thumb: perfect :) So i'm going to end up...

For crimbo I got a magnum pear cider kit. This will be my first ever attempt at a homebrew so go easy! Now the instructions state that I should put in 2kg of sugar. I read somehere that I could replace this with apple juice. Is this true? If so how much? ... Maybe it could lead to a more unique...

Does anyone know where you can get 100% pear juice to attempt a turbo perry? Would it work? I've looked on the asda site and I can't seem to find any that's pure juice. Any ideas?