Recent content by Jimwine101

They'e actually green. Sparkling spring water bottles. But they'e going in the back of a cupboard either way.

After 7 days (last thursday) I took the first measurement. It was 1.010 then (down from 1.050) It's going into 500mm plastic pop bottles.

Sg today is 1.010 still. Maybe .009 at a push. Another week?

Week!? Ok.

Well my brew has had 6 days in the FV and the foam has come down but the SG is 1.010. Low enough to bottle? (and prime).

PMSL. Thanks. XD

My beer is in its FV. Been in since Wednesday night but I'm just a bit concerned at how quiet it it. My wines are usually going ballistic in their first week. Is beer is quiet as the grave. There's plenty of foam on the top, and the air in the top of the FV is definitely full of CO2, (just...

That's good news. I have no local brew shop unfortunately. I'll get to work reading those links while I wait for my extract to arrive. :)

Thank you guys for the advice, I'm getting my head round it now. I really like this recipe from Dux (quoted below if you've forgot.) I just wanted to double check it's not missing an ingredient. Just because unlike every other recipe I've seen, it has no sugar or malt syrup in it. The ones...

Just curious. A lot of recipes say; use 3 gal of water, but you could use much less. What if I 'cooked up' all the ingredients for a 5 gal batch into a one gallon 'concentrate' in my biggest pan, then dumped it onto 4 gal of hot water in my FV?

This is all very encouraging. I've been swotting up on extract brewing and I'm feeling pretty confident. It's going to hurt me Iain but I can stretch to a tenner for now. At least until I am proficient enough to get creative. From what I've read everybody wants me to be able to boil 15l of...

I'm googling extract brewing now.

Clint, that is excellent news. You had me sold at "basic recipe". :) Google told me that golding hops have 5% acid wotsit. I think the hardware shop I get my kit from has big sachets of powdered malt. Could you point in the direction of a recipe and detailed method for one of these batches...

After reminiscing with a customer at work about helping my grandfather with his winemaking back when I was a boy I found myself being given 4 demijohns, a fermentation bucket and a handful of airlocks. This was back in 2015 and I've been making "country wines" and various supermarket juice...

Got the wife to pick me up some finings from our local brew shop. Did it Tuesday night and now I have crystal clear wine. Just bottled it.