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Think it says gervin universal wine yeast on the wee packet, until now I've only used lalvin EC-1118 because it was all I'd had... My question is; will the wilko one be suitable for ciders as well?

Hey guys I was planning on making some Lemon tea wine. Picked up a box of the twinings tea brewed up a cup and thought hmm lovely cuppa - lovely booze! :P However swmbo bought a pack of "Flavour Aid" it's like a powdered form of diluting juice. Now coincidentally she doesn't like the lemon one...

Just had one of my biggest bottling days so far. Bottled up my On The Rocks cider kit and also my Robinsons strawberry and kiwi punch, all in all 48 bottles, various sizes. Me and swmbo started ay 10am, only stopped to have lunch and finished at like 2 ... this home brew lark sure is a lot of...

I was in Tesco the other day and saw a pack of 6 youngs brown glass bottles at the homebrewing bit, I was wondering if anyone's used these or know I they can handle a bit of fizz? I'm a tad short (12 to be exact) in empty bottles for my on the rocks cider that's brewing and for just over 10 quid...

So I fire all the ingredients into the FV last night as per instructions(only dofference is i fired in he yeast at 16 degrees instead, well according to the wee sticker on the fv but it's been in a warm room all night)and in went the yeast, been all night and no movement at all in the airlock...

Well it's finally happened I had a pulpy explosion... No more filling right up to the 5L point on my demi :P Lesson learned, it had to happen to the one I have the most hope for too... Ahh well! Just thought I'd share my wallows :cheers:

I have 3 ciders on the go :P Just had one little curiosity question, when it comes to bottling I know if I want a fizzy cider I'm going to have to prime it, I was wondering though what if I just bottle it before my hydro says <1? like for example at the stage where it says medium? (I'd have...

thinking of a blueberry cider. thinking 2.5L apple juice 2L blueberry a mug of strong tea teaspoon of pectolase and obviously yeast and nutrient sugar content of my juices are blueberry - 130g/L and apple juice - 111g/L so my total sugar from that alone is 537.5g, now my question is, should I...

well bottled my first gallon of apple wine... Im a bit unsure of it now... when I had a little sip before i cleared (well mostly cleared) it tasted alright, now it just tastes like alcohol, is this because its fairly new or have I messed up something? now I didn't use tannin or pectolase...

Anyone out there made any if the ciders that they make? See it as a kit on the balliihoo website, few good flavours by the sounds if it :P And a good excuse to buy a 23L bucket to ferment silly amounts in and stash :whistle:

Ok so i started off making myself a little apple wine after reading a few bits and pieces on here, that was on the 7th. Then in a spur of the moment i got my mum to show me how she used to brew a batch when she made her wine, we had a liter of tropical juice (which i had originally bought two of...

not sure if this is the right place, but there's a lot of abbreviations on here and I'm not sure what a lot of them are, I was wondering if any of you kind lot wouldn't mind filling in a newbie? cheers guys! :D

first ever brew on the go now, apple wine, heres hoping i've learned enough and this turns out ok! I'll keep you all updated, one thing though its been sitting there for about an hour - hour and a half and from the bubbler theres only been about 5 at most little burps, from everything i'd read...

well hey guys, just about to start making my own wines, seen a lot of things I'm looking to try and with a bit of luck not mess up aha :D just found this site thought the information here that I've read so far is really good hopefully at some point I'll be able to contribute something of worth...