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Quick update: SG was 1.084 The initial cement was at room temp then the DJ’s went under the stairs when first racked. I just took the temp and they were 19-20 degrees C I put one in the airing cupboard which is 22-23 degrees C the other day as an experiment but no reaction. The starter jar...

I accidentally brewed a pretty decent ginger wine using the River Cottage ginger beer recipe. Instead of using 2L plastic bottles and releasing pressure daily I decided to be lazy and use a DJ. Only I forgot about it for a couple of weeks and it had fermented out. Think it was about 12-13% in...

Hello folks! It’s been a while but I finally found the time, space and enthusiasm to start another batch of plum wine, the only problem is that the fermentation seems to have stuck when I racked into demijohns. 6.5kg plums 3.8kg sugar 4 gallons cool boiled water 4tsp nutrient 4tsp pectolase 1...

Hello all! I have 7 liters of welchs light purple grape juice (light as in reduced sugar). has anyone got a wow recipie that might assist me in their disposal please? Rich

Right, patience I have so wine it is!!!! so that leads me onto my next question.... has any one got a recipe please? bearing in mind I already used 10lb of strawberries and 3-4lb of sugar. Mashed it up as a dry extraction, should be ready to finish off on saturday... cheers :-)

I'm affraid I cant find the starting readings but currently the fruit tc is reading 0.998sg (its been racked int a clean fermenter once already) and the Aldi apple tc is reading 1.22sg (in primary still). the apple seems to be a little more sparkely tjan befor with a few bubbles on top so I...

hey all! bought 10lb of strawberries very cheaply yesterday, thus far I've de-stalked them, covered them with 4lb of sugar and given them a bit of a mash. so what do you think I should do now? Cider or wine? I figure what I have now is good for about 3 gallon when made up with liquid. I...

Hello folks, I have 2 simmilar problems with 2 sepetate brews, any help would really be good thanks! problem brew 1: apple tc made with aldi 50% juice, 1kg sugar, 1 packet of youngs wine yeast. it was started on the 20th and ferment started as expected. 10 days on its doing nothing on the...

Brilliant! the peeling bit was my only concern... I'm a lazy git at times!..... but I'll stick with the excuse I didnt know what nasties were in the skin lol

Righty hoo.... I'm looking at different ginger beer recipies using fresh grated ginger but none state wether it needs to be peeled or not first. what would you guys suggest? my first attempt was an adaption of the river cottage recipie that I adjusted to fill a demijohn however I cocked it...

So fingers crossed I should get 5 gallon of decent TC for less than 14 quid! or about the cost of 5 pints down my local!

Just started my first apple TC (racked off a mixed fruit one yesterday to clear). Recipe: 1kg sugar 1 sachet youngs cider yeast 22L Aldi 50% apple juce (concentrate - apple nectre) method: steralise fv, poor in juice, disolve in sugar, add yeast and leave for 6 weeks... so whats it cost...

Right, for 1 gallon: 1.5kg rhubard 1.3kg sugar 250ml white grape concentrate general purpouse wine yeast nutrient pectolase I've trippled everything as I'm making a 3 gallon brew. so would 2 litres of juice be sufficient? thanks.

Ahhhh... fair enough. I had a feeling you would all say that, it does raise one further question for me though... how do I adjust quantities? I assume whatever I get from the supermarket isnt going to be as strong/pure as the stuff I would buy from my home brew shop so will I need more of it...

Hey folks! I've just finished straining/pressing the rhubarb after about a week on the sugar and its come out looking lovely! I have my boiled water cooling and yeast to hand but there is one slight problem... grape concentrate... My recepie (from gaurdian) calls for me to use it but I dont...