I'm bewing a cherry stout tomorrow. Using a kit as a base. I'm going to add pectolase as I will rack the stout onto a kilo or so of frozen cherries and put it secondary for a few weeks. I'm going to add pectolase to aid with getting the juices out the cherries. Should I add this in primary...
I think I whack it on a load of frozen cherries for a few weeks after its primary and see what happens. I tried adding cherry concentrate to a stout once before bottling and the flavour didn't come through at all in most of the bottles. The wedding is going to be mostly bikers anyway...so no...
Had a bottle of IPA from the Deeside brewery , not bad quite a traditional tasting sort of IPA. Second was a bottle of brewdog Elvis Juice. Never fails to disappoint.
So the mother in laws wedding is due next April and I'm making a couple of brews for it. One is a cherry stout. I'm using a St Peters cream stout kit for it and adding cherries. I was told that sour cherries are best to use , but I can only seem to find dried ones in supermarkets or online. Any...
I've made 3 or 4 different turbo ciders with mixed results. A common thing I've found is that if it's a flavoured cider ( I've done raspberry , mango , and peach, passion fruit and mango. ) the flavouring from the fruit juice has not really come through and the cider can often have quite a tart...
I've got this with a vimto wine I made, and it's pure rocket fuel... One glass and it's bedtime. I suspect it's just due to the high amount of sugar that's in the recipie that gets converted to alcohol. It doesnt go away either...my vimto wine is over a year old and the alcohol taste is just as...
Before I built my kit up a bit I used to do small batch brew. What I found was more, maybe not beneficial but certainly worthwhile, was doing a 10L batch instead of a 5Litre batch. Split the batch, keep 5L as the recipe I'd brewed and then expiriment with dry hopping the other 5L. I just found...
Bottle a whole batch of this Last week. I made it a chocolate stout. I also did 8 bottles with 1.5ml of Salted caramel flavouring. And 8 bottles with 3ml of cherry concentrate. I was impatient so I cracked open a bottle of the basic choc stout last night. It's a good pint already... So come the...
Hi All, i'm back after a break of about a year and a half... My local brew supply shop closed down and also the homebrew club which the owner of the shop started...so when all that happened i lost interest and it became a bit of a headache to get supplies.
But i'm back at it! 4 brews on the...