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Hi -- all beer kits I've seen have as step on the instructions: "Add 3.5 litres of boiling water, top up with cold water to 23 litres". What's the purpose of boiling the water? Why 3.5L of it? If boiling the water could be skipped it would make life easier as then I could just pour all my...

Suma have a spread that is 75% concentrated Pear juice and 25% concentrated Apple juice, nothing else added. It's a spread so not liquid. See e.g. http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/cgi-loc ... _300g.html Does anyone think this could be used for an Apple flavoured Perry TC and if so how would it...

Prestige white wine kit (as far as I can see only sold on Amazon). I started this kit yesterday and will provide an update and personal taste impression once I have bottled it. Disclaimer: This is my first attempt at homebrewing so I can't compare it to any other kits. Also, I am more of a red...

I have today filled my first FV and I just had a bit of a panic attack: My thermometer was resting on top of the FV lid and it showed 29 degrees celcius. If I feel the bucket it feels quite warm (I don't have an LCD strip). The air temperature is around 23 degrees celcius. When I added the...

Apologies if the info requested is elsewhere on here already. The amount of info on this forum and the gazillion beer kits available to buy are a little overwhelming to this newbie. So, I have only recently started homebrewing (I filled my first FV using a wine kit today), if I wanted to brew...

Hullo! Just joined here and about to start on my first wine kit. I was given a "Prestige White Wine kit" (manufacturer: Gert Strand AB from Sweden, amazon ID code: B008FYWWLI). If anyone has any experience with these I'd be keen to hear about it. E.g. I noticed that the instruction leaflet...