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Hey all, Last post for now, I promise. I store brews differently depending on their size - larger ones are kept in a keg whilst smaller ones are bottled. I'm consistantly finding that brews that are stored in botles always come out much fizzier than those that are stored in kegs, even though...

Hey all, The mothers birthday is coming up soon and I said I'd look into making a few drinks for the party. I mainly do TC type brews which I quite enjoy, but most of the people who will be drinking my creation/s at the party won't have tasted homebrew cider before. Does anyone have any...

Hi all. Since I've been helped out by quite a few people on this forum, I thought I'd share a Mead recipe with you. It was created after reading many different recipes and is a combination of all of the ingredients that I thought sounded nice in the various different recipes. I did 5L of this...

Hey all, I'm wanting to give mead making a go, but every recipe that I find seems completely different. The consensus seems to be that this is more of a 6 month type project as opposed to quicker brews like tc that I'm used to - ideally, I'd like to have something to drink on Christmas eve if...

Hey all. Thinking of starting a tc this weekend since our sainsburys has an offer on aj. All my other tc's have been fairly boring - just juice and some youngs cider yeast, so I'm wanting to mix things up a bit this time. I've read that Honey can be used to sweeten things up a bit, but the...

Hey all, new brewer here with some very basic and probably annoying questions if you would be so kind. For the past 1.5 years or so I've been brewing cider from kits which has been enjoyable & has tasted nice enough. However, I'm wondering if the kit method is geared more towards the sort of...