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my wine that i hoped would be finishe today is sill going , its gone past 1.000 and is now at 990 so should i stop it it or let it carry on going. ? i have 25 litres and my youngs stablising power and that states half a tea spoon per gallon and then to add a crushed campden tablet so would...

help please on clearing a 23 litre batch of wine, i ihave some kwik clear finnings for my wine and want to know the best way of going about this . the kwick clear states 2ml in 4.5 litres so 23 divide 4.5 =5.1 so thats 10 ml of kwick clear A Then 30 mins later 10 ml of kwik clear b so ive...

Does cider (vimto cider ) need degassing or is it just wine ?

I've made a vimto cider a bit to strong I have a 20 litre batch thats practically down to 1000 of was 10.76 and now it's down to very much 1000 that's. 10.1% if I'm right . How could I get that down to about 7% could I add some more apple juice and some more vimto cordial and if so how much ? Or...

i have a brewbin like this one http://www.beerinthemaking.co.uk/Images ... 3L_bin.jpg but i want to put an aquarium heater in it to keep the tempreture constant but not sure the best way to do it . obviously the heater is going to be inside the bin but the cable is going to be hanging over the...

i plan on starting my blackcurent wine this morning but desperatly need help with this ca calcualtion please 12 one litre cartons blackcurrent has 27g sugar per 240 mil serving  so 1200 mill divide 240= 50 sevings ,  so 50 servings @27g = 1350g. around 112g per liter 5 x white grape juice...

a while back i did this recipe for 5 litres of black current whine and i want to make a 25 litre batch on friday.this was original recipe 40g sugar in 2 litres costa blackcurrant juice 162 sugar in 1 litres of stute white grape juice 1 litre white grape juice 2 litres blackcurrent juice into a...

ive done a really nice blackcurrant wine using carton blackcurrant just like a wow and the missus loves it but now she asked if i could do a blackcurrant and liquorice wine or pop i cant find any liquorice extract but found this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LIQUORICE-FLA ... 0454492911 could i...

ive just tested 3 wines i have on the go ribena og 1106 fg 1010 raspberry og 1100 fg 1102 blackcurrant and nettle og 1110 fg 1002 theres been really no activity maybe a bubble 5 mins apart is that as low as they likely to go ? i tested 3 days ago and then today and no difference in...

when ive had a wine ferment down to about 1010 i usually transfer to a clean demijohn and give a good shake and release the gas and do this a couple of times . then i add the wine stopper and leave for 2 or 3 days and then i transfer to 3rd demijohn to get the wine of the remaining leeches (i...

i plan on starting a raspberry wine tonight using raspberry syrop but im stuck with how much sugar to add. i have 2x 1 litre cartons press grape juice which has 17.2g sugar per 100ml i have 980ml of raspberry syrop and thats 64.9g per 100ml so total sugar in 2 litres of white grape = 344g...

i started a vimto cider on sunday morning and by sunday night there was nothing much happening ,you could see yeast moving up and down but no fizzy bubble appearing at the top . the yeast i used was a safeale yeast i opened a month ago and resealed so i thought maybe bad yeast . monday morning...

i have a ribena wine cooling down prior to testing og and the same with a wow. the 1st wow i did ended up at 9% and looks welll and taste good but this wow ive made a bit stronger not sure how much stronger yet because ive added an extra 50g sugar and an extra 1/2 litre of orange juice but im...

ive just made this raspberryade and strawberryade and i bottled into second demijohn just to settle last night.it was all clear on top and its now gone frothy on top . is this normal ? it had been fermenting just over a week and all i added to it was wine stopper a campden tablet crushed will...

ive made a couple of brews that are now conditioning they have finished at around 7 and a 9% but if i backsweeten with more cordial how much will the alcohol % drop. if i added 220ml of cordial to 4.5 litres or 110 ml to 4.5 litres would it make a big drop in % im not to clued up on alcohol %...

ive got two blackcurrant wines just finished although a little low (996) and ive just put one into a secondary demijohn to clear and theres a big colour change. ive added some wine stopper some vin clear and 2 campden tablets gave a vigours shake a few times to degas and put on sideboard and...

ive just done a 5 litre raspberryade brew from the recipie forum 3.5 water 500g sugar 1teaspoon of yeast, nutriant and the cordial i ended up with a hydrometer reading of 1070 which will be 9.3% if i get it down to 1000 if im right ? i want to make a fizzy brew so this is where i get...

ive got a blackcurrant wine on the go in a 5 litre water bottle i started yesterday and its been bubbling away lovely but now im getting a frothing problem. the top of the actual brew is about 3 inch from the rim and was starting to get into the airlock so now ive took airlock of and put a...

ive got 2 litres of welchs purple grape juice 4 litres of blackcurrant juice 4 litres of apple juice 3 white grape juice 1 litre vimto 2 x 500ml of dandilion and burdock cordial im thinking 1 litre white grape 1 litre purple grape 500ml dandilon and burdock cordial 700gm sugar disolved in...

i have 2x2 litre bottles of turbo cider and 4 litres of wow and wand to back sweeten them. im planning on using canderal or a cheap alternative , do i just add a teaspoon at a time to the wine and cider till the required sweetness and give a good shake ? also want to add some coopers...