Recent content by Rucky

Going pretty well now, 72 hours after I pitched it. No need to have fretted I guess. :cheers:

Hi all, Am pretty much a total newb so please excuse the stoopid questions... Had done a couple of Wilko's wine kits and two Festival ale kits, all of which have turned out somewhere between OK and excellent - then decided to take the plunge with a "posh" wine kit. Went for thr Beaverdale...

Ahh, I see. Thanks mate. Makes sense now. As for liquid malt extract, I'd never really thought of using this (rather than DME). Is one or the other considered superior to the other? I'd imagine LME was better than DME. However, because LME is obviously part water and DME isn't, do you have to...

Hi All, Am a relative newb to home brewing. Have done a couple of the Festival kits which have turned out great. A couple of people have mentioned above the possibility of getting two of these Wilko one-can kits and just brewing them up as if they were a single, two-can kit. Admittedly from a...

Hi All, My first post on this forum - greetings! Am a relative newcomer to home brewing - have done a couple of the Wilko's six-bottle wine kits over the summer, with mixed results, then a Youngs cider kit that SWMBO got for a birthday present (and which she couldn't be bothered to brew...