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Got a copy of Andy Hamilton's Booze for Free at Christmas, so yesterday got busy with one of the recipes! 4lb parsnips, 3lb sugar and 2lb raisins for a gallon - in the bucket now with the yeast and other goodies and looking syrupy-dark. Certainly darker than I'd expected, but there y'go...

I put on some blackcurrant wine earlier in the year, and today racked into fresh DJs to take it off the gunk and muck. Thing is, this has left a good headspace of a couple of inches at the top - hasn't necessarily been a problem when I've made wines in the past but for this one I think it's...

Put together a mix on Sunday, trying to make a raspberryade-style drink based on a few odds and sods, and ideas picked up from other recipes I've seen: 300ml Lowicz raspberry syrup 500g sugar tsp wine yeast nutrient pectolase water to 1g Do not intend to ferment out and back-sweeten; want it...

Spent this afternoon in the kitchen, making a rose WOW with Tesco finest red grape juice, and a Hooch-style lemon-pop experiment (in the style of Skeeterpee but with plenty of fresh lemons instead of the concentrate). Should be there or thereabouts in time for Bank Holiday BBQing... :cheers...

Recently decided to get back into homebrew after a good few years out - going through my old kit I'm turning up odd packets of yeast from five or six years ago. Don't want to bother really with trying to ferment with this old yeast, but is there anything I can do with it that might be useful...

Evening all - picking up homebrewing again after a few years out; mainly brewed from kits previously but hoping to get back into it and experiment a bit more now, see how it goes. Getting my hand back in with a quick (and dead simple) turbo-cider recipe which worked well before, so will be...