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Hi guys, I've recently had a spell of ill health and am having difficulty getting through it and my problem is i have 2 fv's on the go one bitter and one brown ale and at present there is no way i can lift them out of the bedroom to keg them, i can't even raise them up to do the kegging in situ...

Andy hamilton says that nettle wine should be drunk young and does not benefit from laying down, however other things i'm reading say that you should rack at 6 mths and again at 8 mths and leave for at least a year. With all the young nettles around at the moment i'm anxious to get going so...

HI guys, a while back i bottled a batch of beaverdale pinot noir which at bottling was probably one of the nicest wines i've ever made. Anyways this weekend i was looking forward to cracking a bottle open but as soon as i stuck the corkscrew in the cork turned to dust (bloody wilkos cheap ****)...

Hi guys, basically i made a beaverdale red kit and a wilkos red and white kits last june/july put them in the shed and forgot about them on several occasions since them i've thought about bottling them but i'm a lazy sh*te and kept finding excuses to do something else. So they're still on the...

Just found out my brother and his missus can't make it to our house for xmas so add the 4 other dj's and the king keg in the shed to this little lot and it's going to be a very merry xmas to me :party: I know i'm getting money for xmas so with all this on hand i will have to stay clear of ebay!

Hi guys, just looking at another dj that i left in the shed and forgot about and it looks a bit funky, although I'm pretty sure the white spots at the top are yeast cells that I haven't rinsed down properly the sediment looks grey almost mouldy! It smells reasonable but it just looks a little...

Ok so based on the school of thought that the longer you leave things the better, i left my wows in the shed for a few months in the demi john (ok so i forgot about them again) today i went to bottle them and thought i'd check the abv, and to my surprise it's 1.000 which is the same as my tap...

Hi guys, I've just got my gear out ready to bottle my latest batch of wine and found my syphon tube has gone mouldy inside again. This happens every time i put them away i clean them through with awp and rinse then swing them round my head a few times to rinse but still they get mould in them...

Just checking that my thinking is right- I've got two cans of Wilkos sweet newkie brown which based on what I've tried in the past I'm not that keen on but rather than waste them I'm going to make them up and I was thinking rather than using sugar I would just put both cans into one brew am I...

Hi guys, sat watching telly last night and suddenly remembered two wow's i had made and left in the shed after racking to a second dj. Went out this morning and they're both still a little cloudy after about 7 weeks, i also realised i hadn't topped them up, i've tasted both and they're really...

Hi guys, I finally got a brew to go fizzy in bottles after all the hassle I've had with flat beers I was very pleased with it. However last night I was having a few and opened two bottles only to find them flat again! The first 6 or so have been fine and fizzy so am I right in thinking I might...

As a new brewer i'm doing the obligatory woodfordes wherry and after 15 days in the fv i've done 2 gravity checks and it's stable at around 1015 but when i tasted the samples it tastes really bitter and is extremely cloudy. As it stands i would bin it but obviously it needs time to mature i just...

Right I'm getting more than a little ****** off with this, I'm on my fourth brew now and once again it's flat. The first two I found out my barrels were leaking but the last two have been in bottles one in glass the other in p.e.t's. the plastic is rock hard after two weeks in the warm but after...

I like to buy some different beers now and then to try and today I bought shepherds neame 1698 and it is rather good, now I'm not geared up for ag brewing but does anyone know of a kit that would be along the same lines?

Hi guys, i've been fermenting a hambleton bard olde english brew for a fortnight now and went to take a reading today and noticed an oily film on the top, now having searched a while this seems to be something that occurs more with ag brews rather than kits or if fruit flies have infected. I...

Hi guys, basically i had issues with the tap on my keg leaking a while ago and thought i'd fixed it however it's now leaking with a vengeance, i must of lost two pints last night alone. No matter how far i turn it it just keeps leaking last time it was on the verge of being open before it was...

Ok so i'm making various wow'w at the moment and while i was out i picked up a bottle each of red and white concentrate from Wilkinsons, however after searching i can't seem to find a definitive answer as to when and how to use it. I believe it adds body to the wines but is it worth it or should...

Hi guys i just pitched my yeast into my latest brew, an old english bitter and forgot to let it cool so the temp was around 40 degrees.Have i killed the yeast or will it still work?

Hi folks, i was just wondering how important it is for fv's to be food grade as i've been given some bits from a pub cellar clear out and included are 3x33ltr white plastic buckets complete with lids and markings on the side for the right amounts. Apparently they have been used for beer line...

Ok so i've made 2 brews so far the first was kegged into a wilkos style keg and was flat there was a load of foam at first every time i tried to pull a pint but the beer itself is flat, really flat so assuming i have a gas leak somewhere i got some gas gave it a squirt the beer comes out, a day...