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Right, I started a one gallon batch of basic mead before Christmas, and it ended up getting down to 1.008 to give me a nice sweet 11% brew, so I decided to add potassium sorbate (I never had any campden tabs). a week later, it was still bubbling through the airlock, yet the liquid was clear with...

Hi all, I have been intrigued by the recipe for kilju for a while and have decided that (due to a lack of demijohns) I am going to purchase a 5l bottle of water from sainsburys and use that for brewing some. My only concern is how to go about it; I have seen figures of 15-20% mentioned (the...

Hello all, I have just brewed and bottled my first brew (Youngs lager kit) into 2 litre plastic bottles and after 2 days the bottles seem to be getting pretty solid! I bottled to around 2/3 inches below the lid (just before the bottle starts to curve in towards the neck) and thought that this...

Hi there, new guy here! After a good few months of pondering, I finally decided to purchase one of the Young's Brew Buddy kits from Wilko's last week (which seems to be just about ready to bottle) and since then I stumbled across this forum, which I have been reading intently ever since. It...