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The raspberry brew was so good in sampling that its... erm... nearly all gone! I started with a plum version as we started to get overrun with these fruits from our trees recently. That was made with 1.5Kg of plums, 300g of brown sugar and the single can Newkie Brown kit. Brewed to 20L. That was...

Thanks for pointing that out Slid, I will take a gander at the Cooper's site. When my beer is ready I will do an update here too.

I just made one of these four days ago. I used 500g of brown sugar plus about a kilo of raspberries boiled with some sugar as the 'fuel'. The krausen has reduced now, it smells a very nice beery/raspberry concoction. I'm a bit worried by mould, which often seems to attack raspberries left around...