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Hi everyone I am normally brewing Wheat Beer and its worked out great, super beer and great value, not much effort at all. Now I wanted to repeat, which is fine, but I wanted to do 2 buckets this time, the 2nd being a Stout. Normally I would take the the bucket contents, when fermented and put...

Hi there, its red wine & grapes buying time ! Went to Denbies in Dorking last weekend, lovely day out. Back on topic, anyone got any suggestions for grapes suppliers, in the London area ? That would be much appreciated !!

Inglorious Basterds

Hi all, I want to have a crack at brewing from real hops. I'm very new to all this, so what would be the simplest, least likely to get messed up hop for me to try ? I understand that 100g will do my 5 gallon container. I don't have a 5 gallon pot, in fact, my pot is 6 litres, at this time. In...

I bottled it yesterday, its delicious ! Got a right yeasty, wheaty flavour. Its got no bubbles, but that's as its just bottled. The brewing sugar i added yesterday will be turned into carbon dioxide by the remaining yeast, I think that's how it works. Very happy with this one. Its my second...

It just arrived. I had seen some adverts out there saying it came with Additional Hops, to be added halfway through the fermentation, but there's no Additional Hops in there. Think the other Festival German Weiss is some Limited Edition or something. I was kind of looking forward to going up a...

Very good, I just ordered one !

Hi there, I just joined the Group. Want to get into home brewing, I have a home brew beer from kit going on in the shed at the moment. I'm very excited to see how it pans out. During this lockdown, I've been watching Youtubes beer brewing (& cheese making) galore and would like to have a crack...

Hi everyone, I really want to make red wine from grapes this year and I was wondering where you guys get your red grapes from ? I have Italian roots & my Father used to make amazing wine in this way, I want to keep that tradition going. Sadly, out of our circle no one is making it this way...