Recent content by gicarey

if you bottle before it's fermented right out, it'll carry on fermenting the remaining sugar in the bottle, building up pressure, whether that's an issue or not depends on how much sugar there is left, type of bottle, etc I suppose. If you kill off the yeasts with PS/Campden, then yes that'll...

Got round to bottling this tonight, it had fermented down to 1.000 (so estimating around 6% ABV) and cleared quite nicely (can't read the smallprint through it like the WoW i need to get round to bottling, but not that far off). All into sgar-primed bottles and now back in the utility room...

Oh, and here's the picture of the thing after it's all bunged together:

Hi Folks, Kicked off an apple juice turboish cider today, as follows: - 3 x 1ltr cartons of el cheapo apple juice (from concentrate) - Juice of 1kg of Crab Apples (frozen from last years harvest), gave about 200ml of incredibly bitter, fairly pulpy (likely due to rubbish juicer), juice -...

So, 7 days in, and we're down to one 'bloop' every 20 seconds. I cleaned & sterilised the syphon, jar and hygrometer, and gave it a test, it was showing 0.990(!) - I assume temperate is on the low side, and device may not be perfectly calibrated, but I'm guessing we're 'nearly there' on the...

Thanks Chippy-Tea, Any idea if there is a downside or difference in adding glycerine post-fermentation vs pre-? I'm assuming either it doesn't get touched by yeasties at all (in which case no difference, and potential benefit in adding later when you can test and see the difference made), or...

Hi Folks, New to the forums, been 'stalking' for a little while now, the goal being to absorb the relevant knowledge to have a bash at a little home-brewing. Having managed to acquire 4 DJs (2 clear, 2 brown) and a 5 gallon fermentation bucket (with lid & tap - the tap appears to have a...