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Yes everything was sterilized and sealed in with rubber bungs and airlocks so guess I'll leave as is until April when I'm back. Thanks for the reply, I couldn't see your brewdays thread but I'm also interested by this. Last year I bottled some straight from primary but think I messed it up as...

Hi all, Second year homebrewing cider. I have 45ltr of cider and another 20ltr of perry currently in my basement. It was all pressed and put in plastic brew buckets in batches during the first 2 weeks of November. When the airlocks stopped bubbling and it cleared up I transferred it all into 10...

Hi Davie, No worries about the hydrometer, according to wikipedia it has the brix scale which is used in wine making. I skipped it and actually bottle some up this weekend. No doubt next year I'll be a bit better prepared and taking a reading after pressing. Interestingly the carboys had...

The writing translates to "Mustomer 10-30 fermentable sugars in kg/hl 20deg C On the other side there is a scale of 10-30in increments of 1 Advice earlier in the post was to buy from amazon uk but it's a bit haphazard getting anything sent over from the uk at the moment so thought I'd take a...

That When I saw this photo come through on Sunday night I very nearly had to drop everything and head out to the pub. Will be trying a few bottled with sugar and keeping fingers crossed it ends up looking like this too. So I had a peak under the baskets and all yeast has dropped to the bottom...

Thanks chaps, This is exciting, I keep trying to keep in mind the family we bought our patch of land off who made wine and all sorts of stuff for hundreds of years with out the internet to scare them. Still seeing the odd bubble in the airlocks but I'll get them down from the shelf and remove...

Excellent, do I get extra points? I didn't cut anything, the carboys and airlocks which got a rinse with bleachy water but everything else was washed in a stream

Hi, yes that is a big help. Funnily enough I think I've browsed some of you and freester's threads before. Keeping it simple sounds good to me, the youtube vid which got me going on this couldn't have made it seem anymore simple however following a few late nights reading the internet I honestly...

Hi all, I recently came into around 70kg of varied apples from a local orchard. Wine making and sprits is very popular out here but cider isn't a thing (I'm a Brit living in a rural area of Slovakia). I got some carboys from someone and bought a sachet of wine yeast, yeast nutrient and some new...