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Aldi recently had some german wheat beers called Altenmunster as a special promotion which where about £1.70 for a 500ml swing top bottle. I got a couple of dozen of those for re-using and I love wheat beer so the drink was very welcome.

If any of you have an Amex card, you can register for the Shop Small promotion they run every year in the run up to xmas. From the 5th December till the 20th, you get £5 credit off a £10 purchase from any participating small retailer. One of my local brew shops, Leyland Homebrew...

Alternatively, I use these guys: http://gasdeal.co.uk/product/commercial-generators/19kg-propane-gas-cylinder/ Very cheap and the price includes the bottle. No need for big deposit of an exchange!

I am doing a cider from a kit at the minute and I am going to try a small batch from apple juice using a 5 litre water bottle. Just a few things... What does the stewed tea do? Thinking of using 4 iitres apple juice, cider yeast with sweetener included, cup of tea and then prime with the...

Just a thought... Lidl has the Lowicz in store at the minute in various flavours. I bought strawberry and raspberry on Sunday. 99p a bottle.

January 31st in Sheffield please.

I am slightly confused now by the safety of using pasteurised juice in the fermentation process. I have been looking at most of the 100% juices and it seems that where preservatives are not used, it's because they have been pasteurised. This seems to be the case also for the Tesco Everyday...

So would you not recommend putting this juice in at primary if at all? I thought with it fermenting anyway it might be OK?

How do you know if the juice has preservatives? I was looking to use some pure pressed apple and raspberry juice from tesco. It says it's pasteurised, but I can't see anything else? 1ltr also contains 100g of sugar, so should I reduce the sugar I add by this amount?

If you don't mind plastic, tesco doing 24 for 7 quid with caps at the moment reduced from 10.

Help anyone?

Thanks. I primed with half a teaspoon of brewing sugar. To be honest, I have opened 3 over the last few weeks and each one has been a bit more fizzy than the last. I will leave them a couple more weeks and see how they are.

Had the same problem. Flat beer. Is there a way to recarb bottles? Can extra sugar be added and then left longer?

I have brewed a few wheat beers from kits and I want to try a basic cider using brewbuddy cider. I am hoping to split it up at some point either after pitching the yeast or during fermentation so I can have half of it with a raspberry flavour. What are my options for making it flavoured...

I presume some beers can vary? The Black Roc Whispering Wheat said it was suited to warmer climates and recommended fermentation between 20c and 28c. I thought that seemed a bit high.