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Hi all, i have been brewing concentrate for a few brews now and i really want to get into whole gran, or at least part. I have a lot of kit for fermenting in but nothing for mashing or boiling. my question to you all is.... what is the cheapest way from where i am now, to get to whole grain?

if you want a way to cool it down fast (and i mean fast) pump a methanol solution through the chiller (actually dont pump it but let gravity feed it through) use dry ice to cool down the methanol (using methanol as it wont freeze ) the methanol will be at about -70 degrees C (the temp of dry ice...

welcome

ooh i might try this!

cool, thank you :D how much do you normally put in a 1 gallon batch of ginger beer or nettle beer?

Hi Was just wondering, what does cream of tartar do in your homebrew ginger beer and nettle beers? and what else do you put it in please? R josh

Haha you are very true "the appley fermented goodness of gods first fruit" is amazing! though i like a little spice and i thought maybe ginger would do this?

omg i might pop down there and start some too!, anyone know where to get a glass carboy from? pluss what is the ultimate thing to add to cider to make it good? will a little ginger make it nice with strong tea and what does that glycerin do? if thats what it is? josh

15 p a pint! cant argue with that! :cheers:

welcome mate :D

fair enough, just out of interest, what is the difference when making apple cider and apple wine? what do you do differently?

ooh nice i may have to try this one day (but without bread yeast tried that once...was nasty)

Hi I am going to make 5 gallons of cider soon (when i'm back from uni) i was just wondering if there was an apple orchard in northwest england? anywhere that sells freshly squeezed apple juice perfect for fermenting (not that crappy Tesco stuff) R Josh

thanks everyone :D

ooh nice i might try this one day!

I would also like to know this as i have my first batch of beer fermenting at the moment

hi, im also a cider brewer, hoping to do a 5 gal batch of turbo when my fermenter is free :D

Hi I'm new to homebrewing and overlooked one very important thing when making my new beer. i am coming up to bottling now and just thought to myself...oh **** i don't actually have enough bottles :/ i need 40 and i only have about 7... so i was wondering, where do you go to get free bottles? as...

welcome! i hope you enjoy home brewing :D i have just started and i love it

Welcome, i'm also a new brewer josh