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It tastes great, very fruity from the different flavours in the tea and i can;t wait for it to mature in a few months :)

I used Wurzel's Orange Wine recipe as a template, that is a great how to guide. Adding a bit of water to the airlock was more of a "I have to stop my kitchen being sprayed, after thought" I will know to do this in the future. i did use a lot of grape juice and tea made from the red berries tea...

I decided to attempt my first 'none wine kit' brew and bought a box of 20 tesco red berries tea bags and 2ltr of red grape juice. Made up 5 ltr in a bin so it would be easy to mix and add all the ingredients and left it to settle for 48 hours. I then transferred this to a DJ to (hopefully)...

After reading your reply I might just give it a miss until I have more experience, I'm still new to this.

I was in lidl and saw 1 ltr cartons of peach juice containing 50% fruit including pulp. Would this be suitable for making peach wine? I was thinking using 2 cartons to make 5 ltr. If this would work would I also need white grape juice? which is something I can't buy where I live. Any advice very...

It is red so I do I know when it is clear?

It's been 6 days since I made my first batch of Young's Cabernet Sauvignon wine. According to the instructions, on day 6 the fermentation process will be complete. The instructions do give confusing instructions as to when the wine is ready for bottling. Placing the hydrometer into the bucket...

I have ordered a small wine starter kit from Tesco. This seems to contain all the basic equipment to get me going. The syrups I have seen in places like Wilkinsons are for 30 bottles which is more than enough to make in one batch, so that would be my limit. When I am ready to step up to that, I...

I have decided to give home brewing a go, so started looking around the interweb at what basic equipment I will need. from what i have read I think i will need a fermentation bin (25 litre) which I can buy on ebay for about £7 or would a demijohn be better? I will start with wine but will move...