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I'll give it a go! Cheers!

Sounds good, will this be a wine or can it be carbonated? Do I add a tea for tannin? Thanks

Hi guys, I need your help. I've got 2x1litres of apple juice, 1x1litre Orange Juice, 1x1litre pineapple juice. 1or2kg of sugar, pectolase, yeast nutrient, orange wine yeast, cider yeast and general purpose wine yeast. Plus all the brewing equipment. Demijohns etc. Ideally I would love to make 2...

It's getting better, conditioned nicely and chilled in the fridge. Not bad in the end.

Update time, this tasted great in the FV, I bottled it and conditioned it in the warm then cool. To be honest it's not a patch on how it tasted in the FV. I'm quite disappointed to be honest. I've had a dozen bottles or so and I'm just not enjoying it. What do you guys think? Would it be better...

Thanks guys

Doesn't seem much per bottle, just a bit less than 2.5gm doesn't seem enough. Or is it?

I'm bottling this tomorrow, what's the general recommendation on the amount of brewing sugar to use? I'm thinking of 150gm basically 50gm more than supplied.

My brother brewed this one and it's come out of conditioning now, it's a really nice stout, lots of caramel and roasted flavours, you can't really tell it's a kit. It's got a slight chocolate smell but no chocolate taste which is the only disappointment with the brew. Over all though it's a...

Thanks guys, I thought the instructions were a bit optimistic at 10 days.

I've had a break from kit beer brewing but have got this one in the fv right now, it's been in for 2 weeks and it's down to 1.012 the instructions say it should be 1.005, will it go down that far do you think? I drank the trial jar and it tastes bloody lovely!

Will it has fermented down to 1011 in 4 days! Didn't expect that!!

Slight hijack, I put this kit on last Friday. It looks to have been fermenting it's left about 2-3cm of Krausen residue on the side of the fermentation bucket and the lid was pushed up with co2 but I've not seen any bubbles come through the airlock. As it's only a 12 litre brew and my bucket is...

How about if you keg a kit beer? Does the 'twang' disappear then? I've just got a keg and planning on putting the festival razor back IPA in it.

I've got one of these I found in the back of the cupboard. Unfortunately it's about 3 years out of date. Does the malt go off? I've got some new yeast (mangrove jack's east coast IPA) I could use but I don't want to waste my time of it's too far gone. What do you guys think?