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Hi Sincerely apologies to mods/admins if it is bad etiquette to start two thread concurrently. If you want to just add the text from this thread to my other post, i am fine with that, and apologies for the hassle. Well basically after months of promising i finally give my kit ago with my first...

Hi All Not been on here for a while. Life has been crazy busy. Recently split with the girlfriend, so now have more tiem to make beer. 17 months later than i initially planned, I tried my first extract brew using my granda's old burco (aluminium....) boiler. FIRST QUESTION - How do you stop...

Hi I put ion a TC in September. I wanted to try and make it as good as possible, so rather than the usual apple juice, i bought cartons of cloudy pressed apple juice. Added the usual tannin and malic acid etc. It has been conditioning in a carboy for some time. I was hoping for malo-lactic...

Hi You probably don't remember me, but I joined the forum a couple of years ago initially just to find out how to make a kit properly, and then a year ago i was going to start extract brews. I still haven't started with extract... Won't bore you with the excuses but I am almost ready to do it...

Hi My local micro (Yard of Ale) once had a beer on that tasted very biscuity. Normally, you can't literally taste the flavours decribed in tasting notes of beer, but this literally tasted biscuity. I am about to orde ingredients to make 5 - 6 brews (with a 25kg malt extract jerry can) and I...

RGJ and 'exotic juice' fruit juice wine, fined, filtered, and ready to bottle. Deliberately brewed short so i can top up with another litre of exotic fruit juice to make a sweet fruity wine (bit of an experiment - normally like wines dry) Wine was clear and pink. until last night anway, when I...

Hi I am getting some recipes together before placing a large order for 25kg malt extract and enough hops and yeast to go with it. A lot of recieps i have erad in my new book include Munich Malt Extract. In order to keep costs down, is there any 'steeping grain' I can use as a vague subsitite...

Hi My boiler has a dead space of approx 2 litres. I am doing a test run on it now with just water before i jump into my first extract brew. I am too much of a worrier to just do an extract without having everything set up in my mind and on beer smith etc! As i say, it has a two litre dead...

Hi When measuring OG and FG, why do we assume that the only thing that thickens our wort/beer or must/wine is sugar? For example, if 1 litre of water contained 100g sugar, you would have a gravity of approx 1.036. However, if you blended up fruits or vegetables for example and made them up to...

Hi Please can someone tell me the approximate OG for the ingredients below, as the OG I calculated was miles off the OG i measured. Total Volume: approx 24.75 litres 8 litres white grape juice: 148g * 8 = 1184g 2 litres of Pineapple jucie: 123g * 2 = 246g 2 litres of grapefruit juice...

Hi Regardless of cost, are there soem finigns which are unmistakably better than theo ther finings? I have been using Isinglass for the last year after i bought a load from my LHBS. This has run out now and i was either goign to buy another container of the stuff, or otherwise get different...

Hi Is it possible to make a lager with readily available malt extract? (Obviously, using a lager yeast and the correct temperature) Can soemthing acceptable be made with light malt extract? Cheers

Hi Can someone just have a quick look at these recipes to make sure the sugar amount, acids, and everything else look ok? Should I add anything else? I made them up last night, and added pectolase this morning. Will add yeast after work. All comments welcome. Plum wine 2.5kg plums 500g...

Ahoy hoy I was reading a thread about making lemonade and i hada thought. We all know it's difficult to make something sweet and carbonated, as we need to resort to artificial sweetner, or corny kegs. Can someone point out the drawback of simply fermenting a sugar and water solution, with a...

Hi anyone else follow the horses? I don't anywhere near as much as I did a few years back, but you can't really ignore Cheltenham. Day 1 2:05 - Sprinter Sacre (boring odds on) may do a forecast with Cue Card 2nd 3:20 - Rock On Ruby approx 10/1 Any other selections?

Afternoon all Can you good people tell me what you use to insulate FVs, and where you get it from? I have a fridge which i can use to get a reasonably steady fermenting temp, but for if i am doing more than one batch at a time, or if i am doing wine etc at teh same tiem as my beer is in the...

Hi Gonna build a hop strainer, buy a chiller, use up a couple of kits, then I'm ready to go extract. I want to use the kits first, so that shoudl take me through to mid feb/march. I want to get ready though so I can start as soon as i've got my FVs empty. Questions: What is the difference...

Hi Can someone suggest dry/medium/sweet final gravity readings for turbo cider? mine is currently 1.002. About to bottle it but not sure whetheri shodl back sweeten some to make it medum, or if 1.002 is medium. Quick response appreciated! cheers :drunk:

Hi i am planning on doing two wines side by side, identical except from the fact 1 will use raisins and one will use grape juice concentrate. Obviously i can get the sugar content of the raisins from the packet, but what about the grape juice concentrate? Does anyone have any ball park sugar...

From lalvin website: That would mean the msut beign 30 degrees at pitching, is that what you all do? I don't, perhaps I should start? :hmm: