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I'm in the process of getting a 7ftx5ft shed and was wondering what people thought of a railway sleeper base? The shed will only be used to store general garden things and a bit of homebrew so I'm thinking it doesn't need to be anything to heavy duty? Ive been quoted £250 for a concrete base...

Is this a suitable yeast to use to make some alcohol fruit wines?

A mate of mine likes supping perlenbacher pils from lidl and I noticed they are screw cap, could they be reused?

I bought some of the £2.74 kits tesco had and I was wondering if I could use it in one of the bitter kits. Has anyone ever used it before? If so when would you use it, would you put it in the fv or add it when priming?

The general feeling on the forum seems to be after a couple of months or so, but from start to finish I'm drinking mine after 3 1/2 weeks to the 4 week mark. I tend to go for the cheaper end of the market kit wise to keep the cost down as with a 9 month old in tow can't afford to sup in pubs...

Is this kit worth a pop? Seen it today in wilkos and was thinking of picking it up as a Xmas brew. I like my ales so was wondering if anyone could tell me what it's like and the best way to brew it, I was thinking brewing sugar but if anyone's got a tip it'll b much appreciated :cheers:

I started a thread last week about a wilkos own brand stout I brewed (I'll update that when tasted :thumb: ) in which I used 500g brewing sugar, 250g muscovado, half a tin of treacle and 20 litres of water, I had already used the other half of the ingredients in a cheapo £2 mild from wilkos...

Newbie to the forum but been a bit of a lurker :whistle: Bought this and brewed it last week with 20 litre of tesco value water, 500g brewing sugar, 250g dark muscovado sugar and half a tin of treacle (the other half went in a Geordie mild which is untasted yet so :pray: ). Bottled it...