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i made 25 litres of WOW and racked to 15 litre supermarket bottle and 2 demijohns i racked to a bucket degassed with power drill as normal then stabalised and fined then i transfered to 15 litre and 2 demijohns theproblem i had was one of the demijohns was 1.3 ish litres short so i pored...

i phoned my mate tonight to ask him how many elderberry trees he has on hi s 60 acre farm and his reply was a 10 minute explanatioin of where they are and how to get to each tree. after telling him what its for he offered to take me down there in the jcb and sit me in the bucket and lift me to...

i just bought the stuff for a large batch of wow 25 litres but what needs changing from the 1 gallon recipe To make 1 gallon: 1 litre White Grape Juice 1 litre Orange Juice, no bits, budget brands are fine around 800g Sugar 1 tsp Pectolase - see below Tannin - see below 1 tsp Glycerine...

heres a link wich shows the bottles im getting free at the moment (7 a week ) http://www.drinksdirect.co.uk/acatalog/ ... _cork.html they are easy to delabel and i also get a plastic cork like the ones you can buy but rounded on the top would i be right in thinking i could use these for...

my strawberry ribena white grape and peach stopped premeturely so i made a starter and added a litre of white grape then slowly added the wine over a few days the problem i had was once it had fermented out i had too much for my demijohn so i put it all in a 15l pet and added finings and...

i have bought a 15 litre water bottle from asda wich is for the water machines they have in offices i noticed on moleys wurzels guide he has modified the top so it is removeable and a bung can be fitted could anyone tell me how to go about it and what size drill is best for the bung i dont...

does anyone know if there is much difference between coopers malt extract and youngs light spray malt the bloke in the shop said they are the same but my last 2 kits didnt come out as expected coopers pilsner has a dark colour rather than light as shown on the tin and a very strong powdery...

i just bought asda 100% pure pressed red grape strawberry and kiwi juice 2litres of it it contains 450 grapes 20 strawberries 2 kiwis all pressed not from concentrate will this be ok for 1 gallon of wine

i think my strawberry ribena white grape and peach has stopped. i used gervin no3, it has been at 1008 for a couple of days now, is this too high and should i start it again, if so should i make a starter or just put some youngs yeast compund in (thats all i have) also another of my wines has...

just put together my first wow i cant wait for it. how soon can i decide weather its worth doing 10gallons of the stuff a matured taste is not nececerry so will it be ok to try in 1 month?

fag in my mouth, beer in my left hand, bottling austrailian pale ale with my right, kings of leon in my ears, :whistle: what more could a man want? :hmm: :drink: and the wife has gone out coz she dosent like the state of her kitchen bonus

its only been 7 days since bottling and i couldnt resist the temptation any longer so i put a couple of small bottles in the fridge a couple of hours ago and just opened the first a little hiss and white smoke :clap: chill haze not bothered about that i didnt expect homebrew to taste so...

do i need to rack my wine now its ready for it or am i ok leaving it till weekend when i will have some bottles to put it in or will it be ok in a secondary with finings added and stabalisers if i do it tonight its a kit by the way and im up to the stage where it has definately stopped...

i made a 5l bottle of red grape and cranberry 3 days ago but had no airlock so i used a baloon wich i steralised and pricked holes in today i opened it for a gravity reading and there was black sludge around the lid of the bottle and bung wich seals the drilled hole in the water bottle lid...

just finished bottling my first ever brew :clap: (youngs lager) and thrown my next in the fv Austrailian pale ale so i think its another few trips to the pub for some more bottles :thumb:

how much room do i leave in a 500ml bottle when filling need a fast answer as i have just batch primed what a noob

i went to my home brew shop today for a few bits and bobs and he advised me to get a cup of boiling water and mix in half a bag of secondry sugar and then pour it into my fv and lightly stir it with a fork then leave for 10 minutes before bottling has anyone tried this in the origional fv wich...

has anyone used bavaria 66cl bottles and are they ok for brewing lager

hi again guys my first eva brew from a youngs brewbuddy lager starter kit is slowing down fermenting i cant see any bubbles rising in the fv but the lid keeps blowing up as theres gas building in there heres my hydrometer readings with temperature correction day1 1.030 22 degrees c= 1.0313...

hi all just brewing my first ever so i might have a lot of questions so ill thank you all now THANK YOU