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Hello all does anyone have a easy recipe for a sparkling strawberry wine as I've got loads of frozen strawberrys and want to turn them into wine I've ordered lalvin 71b yeast to use Any help would be great Cheers

Hello all I started this as an experiment and its proven to be a success So I thought I would share Ingredient. 1200g of tesco golden syrup 2 whole cloves 1/2 tsp of cinnamon 1 tsp yeast nutrient 1/4 tsp citric acid 1 tsp tannin 1 tsp pectolase And a 14g packet of tesco's make bread yeast I...

Hello all I've been asked to make a rose wineand I just wanted to check the recipe with you lot first but I was thinking of using This will be for a 1gallon batch 5 ltrs of welchs rose grape juice Adding suger to about 1100-1115 on the hydrometer Pectolase Wine tannin Yeast nutrient Acid blend...

Hello all I wanna try my hand at brewing beer I've done wine cider and meads so far except I wanna try and start with extracts first? Would this be better not really sure but I've looked up and I think it will be easyer I'm not much of a beer drinker and I was wondering if there was a hopless...

Hello all following my post about chocolate I've tryed making a cider(I do enjoy my cider) with chocolate So I came up with this. Sorry I can't remember all the weights for everything Chocolate Orange cider(hopefully) 2 ltrs of apple juice 1 ltr of Orange juice 2 lemons 10 drops of...

Hello all I've never made an ale or beer before and a friend wants me to make an ale with honey I'm still new to homebrewing and I've made wines and a few ciders if anyone has a nice and easy ale I can do it would be very helpful Cheers

Hello all I have a recipe that says I need 2 teaspoons of citric acid but I don't have any can I use lemons and how many do I need Cheers

Hello all I've make a new cider but its only been fermenting for about a week ans its stopped today Rite it started at 1070 And its at 0990 atm I've check it on the calculator it says its 10.6-8% Shorely that can't be rite it should take longer shouldn't it? But then I did use a cider yeast from...

Hello all I've just seen some apple juice which is not from consintrate and it has oscorbic acid which is a antioxidant will it stop the fermanting? Or no Cheers

Hello I'm making 1 gallon of ribena wine and I put some youngs fining stuff to help clear it last night and now the sedament has risen to the top. I have a pic but how do I load it omto the site? Help please

Hello everyone I just have a quick question about using honey/serup is there anything u have to. Do differently when using them like would it be better to dissove into hot water or por it straight into the mix. And working out how much to use Cheers

hello all i am really confused :wha: at the moment i am brewing a gallon of ribena wine and where i started the gravity was 1.012 or 1.112(cant remember at the moment but i have it writen down but left it at work and cant check till tomorrow) and then i've done it again today 13 day later and...

Hello I've just moved my cider into a different fermentation barrol and the other one still smells of the cider(I have washed it) and I've seen on here about using chemicals. So I wanted to ask what's the best on or is it personal chose Cheers Oh ya and is there differnt types?

Hiya first of all I don't know if this is in the right place so please tell me if it is. But I was looking on the internet cuz I wanted to know more about potassium sobate and I came across this http://www.fermentarium.com/homebrewing ... -is-wrong/ I've read it and it does sound interesting if...

hello has anyone tryed putting chocolate into wine or cider? or is it one of those things u dont do cheers

Hello guys I no this is a bit of a noob questio but how do you make cider fizzy? And how can I tell how strong my cider is after it finished fermenting I forgot to take a gravity reading when I started Cheers all

Hello all not so new to brewing as I have done one of the kits before a youngs red wine(very nice) and I wanted to get back into brewing I got an apple cider kit and 5 gallon barrol for xmas:) I can't remember the make of the kit but I'll post it when I finish work I have to admit I did get...