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Hi -- all beer kits I've seen have as step on the instructions: "Add 3.5 litres of boiling water, top up with cold water to 23 litres". What's the purpose of boiling the water? Why 3.5L of it? If boiling the water could be skipped it would make life easier as then I could just pour all my...

Update: It's been 22 days. The DJs are still somewhat hazy so am thinking I should leave them a few days longer? Given that I topped up each with pomegranate juice should I expect it to become more transparent? I am not going to rack to other DJs, will straight away bottle, so they are now all...

Oldbloke, do you dilute the Suma to 4L with water or AJ? And then top up with another fruit juice? During primary fermentation does your TC wort crawl out of the fermenter? Mine is bubbling away nicely but apart from a three quarter inch of krausen bobbing placidly on top there isn't anything...

I have three DJs on the go now: DJ#1 -- 3x pear and apple spread DJ#2 -- 1 Suma AJ concentrate + 1 pear and apple spread DJ#3 -- Tesco 100% AJ from concentrate (which I will top up with pomegranate juice) I used for each : 1 tsp nutrients, 1 tsp tannins, 1 tsp pectolase, 1 heaped tsp of...

I'd like some info too, please! I bought: 1 Wilko Stout, 1 Geordie Beer Kit Enhancer I have in the cupboard: Deep black Belgian Candy syrup (about 400ml worth, I bought a jar when I was in Belgium), black treacle (have about 500ml left), Tesco Value golden syrup (about 680ml), Muscavado (about...

Thanks Oldbloke. I have 4 tubs of the 300g spread and 1 Suma AJ concentrate bottle (they only had the organic version, so 400ml). I think the website is wrong re. 3kg juice -- Some more research into the original producers of the stuff gives me the following info: The spread is obtained through...

Suma have a spread that is 75% concentrated Pear juice and 25% concentrated Apple juice, nothing else added. It's a spread so not liquid. See e.g. http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/cgi-loc ... _300g.html Does anyone think this could be used for an Apple flavoured Perry TC and if so how would it...

Hi - I have just bottled my first beer brew (Wherry kit). I added brown sugar to each of the bottles prior to bottling (they are 2L PET bottles). I noticed that quite a bit of sugar is sticking to the bottom of the bottles. I gently moved each bottle upside down briefly to try to mix it around...

Thanks Chaps!

My Wherry has been in the FV since yesterday. I have some doubts regarding the final step in the instructions where it says to move the bottles to somewhere cool in order to let it clear. I live in a flat so I don't have a cool place, it's at room temperature everywhere (around 20 degrees). Can...

All bottled! Verdict: Cleared within 3 days. The wine is very tasty, easy to drink, easy to get tipsy on. Am not enough of a white wine buff to say much about e.g. dryness etc. Notes: My Wilko syphoning tube did not come with a clip. I know now that it is essential in order to keep the syphon...

Very quick update....the Fining B was added under an hour ago and the wine is now already pretty much completely clear. I am amazed at the difference and how quick it was. I will leave it for the next 3 days though as per the instructions.

Day 14 -- as per instructions: Stabilising, add 150g of sugar, degassing and fining A/B. Then leave for 3 days before bottling. I measured the FG -- 0.990 (this was prior to my adding the extra 150g sugar or adding the stabiliser). For a moment I was afraid my hydrometer was going to sink...

YES YES YES!!!!! THAT WAS THE ONE!!!! It is such a shame.....

This may be a stab in the dark....Some years ago, in Waitrose, we chanced upon a bottled Ale that had port added to it. It tasted amazing. However, since then we have not managed to find it again. Anyone any idea what it might have been? Does it still exist?