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We were all young once and done stupid stuff but that takes the biscuit and like chippy says It was never goint to end well, OYF sore one, what was he thinking *clenches buttcheeks thinking about it*

Great post :thumb:, I love reading these DIY projects, I'm not too clued up on electrics or the terminology but I understand most of what you have done. Just wondering about the green switch, does that bypass the thermostat and make the boiler run at full power when it is turned ON? which in...

Even though its been in the FV's longer than expected I'm still confident it will carbonate. I've done ciders in the past under similar circumstances and it carbonated nicely but if it doesn't then i guess I'll have flat sweet cider.

Sorry about the lack updates, just recovered from a bug I've had for about 3/4 weeks now, anyway here's some photo's. Start with the Cider, I received my Hops very promptly and after some reading decided to go with 15g Cascade in one and 15g Bramling Cross in the other one. I syphoned...

Holy ****, what's in the fermenter?

You're not talking to yourself, I'm listening :wink: I currently have a 10l batch on just now, it's been in the primary for 3 weeks tomorrow due to me having a cold/flu/chest infection, coughing germs everywhere lol so I didn't want to chance touching the cider. I'm about to put it in the...

The photo shows Young's Super Wine Yeast Compound and he used 4 tea spoons m8.

I tried to use my hand held steam cleaner on a 500ml one recently, just to see if it would work, it instantly shrunk to half it's size :doh:, my wife now uses it to take milk to night shift lol.

The Malt Miller seem to be having a bit of a sale on hops too just now.

Yeah, what the heck, count me in too please Inkbird, White please. :thumb:

The cupboard at the top of my stairs where I keep my home brew equipment/supplies and currently fermenting stuff is really dark, the hall lights are at the other side so I usually have to use my phone as a light to see what I'm doing as the cupboard isn't near any sockets either. After seeing...

crannman, this might help NovaTwist Caps I just bought 110 of these recently, got them at 14p each plus p&p from shop4homebrew I've not used any yet as my wine is still fermenting but everyone who uses them seem to swear by them.

Just as a matter of interest, did you buy an expensive one or just the ones from ebay that are around £13.99 or so?

I think I might give something like this a go, 5l or so, mmmmmm Chritmassy Cider sounds like a plan. You'll probably have people bamboozled with the term "tattie masher" :lol:

For me, I want to try dry hopped cider because of the reactions it gets on the youtube review videos, people are amazed at how good it tastes. I've never used hops in my life so can only go on what people say when reviewing it, I don't think it will bring a beery taste but the flavour in the...

:lol: haha that made me chuckle, brilliant

I also made a similar pinapple cider about 2 years ago but without the hops, didn't take notes :doh: (I've started now though) but I'm sure i added around 300g sugar too, there was also no real pinapple flavour and if i remember correctly it left alot of sediment in the primary too. When i do...

Brilliant, I'm glad the idea works, I might take a reading from the cider later. Yeah I was going for pellet hops, I've never used hops before but after watching some youtube videos i was thinking cascade for 5l but wasn't sure what to use for the other 5l, possibly citra, really not sure at...

Do you use the whole autosyphon? or just the outer tube? I still need to order the hops, I forgot all about that, thanks for reminding me. :thumb: They should still be here in time for it going into the secondary though as fermentation has been slower than expected. Then I will keep it in the...

Right it's been 10 days now, here's some photo's and bubble status. I've had these in my kitchen to keep an eye on them and to watch the progress, the window is north facing and never gets direct sunlight, not that there's much of that here just now anyway. A quick question :- when fermenting...