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Good afternoon, Flixon Breweries reporting in. Our latest batch of Sauvignon Plonk we left in and kind of forgot about, for six weeks. We picked it up from our local home brew shop in St Helens, and it was their own country house wine make, that they buy in from Sweden I think they said...

Goodness me, what a night, only partially spoiled by the atrocious display of English football. We brought the raspberry and lime cider bottles out, and it was just great. At about 5% (ish), cold, and fizzy, we both sort of nodded at each other with a look that said 'we can do this'. So we...

Greetings, Flixon Breweries Here, Just a quick update on our brewing status. In the light of the arrival of children on my side, we've started brewing in a ridiculous panic. Just took out 40-odd bottles of Roddy's turbo cider, tuned towards raspberry and lime, it's clear as a bell, and...

Couldn't resist. We've got an Elderflower wine, a merlot, Woodforde's Nelsons Revenge, a Geordie Lager, and two other 40 pint kits to go in and a turbo cider to go in. Well on the way to being totally self-sufficient. Next Summer, we'll have a list for wild fruit picking and we are going to...

Goodness me it's seems like a long time since we last posted something up on here. We've just bottled about 30 bottles of Wilkos Mexican Cerveza, which tastes OK, but just OK. It was �£12 so... Couple of things we did wrong. We put brew enhancer in it, which has made it a bit too...

Good Evening - Flixon Breweries Here Time for a quick update we thinks. So our Mexican Cerveza has stalled slightly. We expected bottling today, but we had a bobber and a taste, and it was slightly sweet. We've put some great yeast in and another packet of yeast however, we think the weather...

Incredibly important to have a few jars of your latest creation and name it accordingly. So far we have: Betty Firstbrew - Bulldog Bitter Philosopher's Brow - Roddy's Turbo Cider Chateau Le Cul-de-Sac - Cellar 7 Cabernet Bobbingbong Soon to be named: Mexican Cerveza Raspberry and Lime...

Greetings from Flixon Breweries! I was wondering if someone could perhaps help us. We had a big brew day planned today, and whilst we've got a nice raspberry and lime turbo cider in the bucket, our Wilko's Mexican Cerveza has somehow stalled. We were looking at prime batching and bottling...

After a great weekend in the Lakes, we can confirm a couple of things. Turbo Cider can make you very dizzy, and weirdly, it makes your wee smell metallic. Anyway, as long as you bung enough ice in it, it's really quite nice. It didn't taste very high in alcohol, but it obviously was, and...

Good Evening, Flixon Breweries Here - Master Brewers of many fine, erm... tinctures. We're the brewery that beats the VAT man. So it's been a real period of activity here. We've had Betty Firstbrew that, against all odds, against seasoned men, managed to turn us into staggering tubs of putty...

Oui' oui'. J'mapelle Château de Flixon here. Since it's original build in 1153, when the 3rd Nuns Covenant of Ricasoli famously dragged 15 ton blocks of granite up a hastily rigged pulley system, Château de Flixon has become synonymous with quality, reliability, stamina and body...

Good afternoon, Flixon Breweries Here, Roddy's turbo cider in the bucket. Just tested it today. We've done 40 pints worth, all in pure Lidl apple juice and a EC-1118 yeast and some yeast nutrients. It's been heated to around 21-22 degrees throughout primary fermentation for 10 days. We...

Just a quick update here from Flixon Breweries with a review of our hardy beverage for the fully grown adult, 'Betty Firstbrew'. We tentatively poured out Betty's juice at 1pm, and compared it's colouring almost to a stout, or a very strong porter. Is it cloudy we said? Who knows, it was so...

Flixon Breweries Here. Please could someone tell us what is the minimum amount of kit we will need to make a decent few bottles of wine. We'll get the recipe off some helpful members here. We just think it's time to get a stock building up for a nice Summer's English day. Just need to know...

A lovely afternoon, the sun is shining on Flixon Breweries as the master brewers sit here sampling the delights of their toil. We've only had a pint a piece and we've got a wobble on. Now that's what you call BANG FOR YOUR BUCK! We've had some great pointers from these forums, thank goodness...

Hi Everyone, Flixon Breweries here. We have a 40 pint bucket, we intend adding as many cartons of apple juice from cartons as it takes to get 40 pints, probably from Morrisons. We've just bought some EC-1118 yeast and some campden tablets. Our question is will this method work? Everything...

Good Morning from Flixon Breweries. We thought it would be most courteous to post an update to our brew that we tried our best to ruin at the start of the process. We put the floaty guage thing in it after 10 days and it had indeed knocked our yeast for six, so thank you to everyone that let...

Some of you here may have heard of us. There's been a great deal of trepidation in our town about our new brew coming out soon, Betty Firstbrew. We don't want to let the punters down, so we hoped you could help on our second question. After primary fermentation has taken place, and we've...

Hello All, We bought our kit at the weekend and we've a couple of questions if someone would be so kind as to help us: 1. Oh God, what have we done? We had a bitter kit for 40 pints with a sachet of yeast attached, whacked a kilo of sugar in, then whacked a kilo of brew enhancer in, then I...

I don't know if I'm even doing this right. Well, we'll see won't we? Me and mate went out at the weekend and bought a load of brewing kit. We do like a pint, and our music/sports, and our mates will be able to indulge in it as well, and we think it's going to be a good thing. Now then, we...