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The Wurzel's has been very popular with family and friends, so I've had to put another 2 gallons on this weekend. While in the supermarket I noticed some watermelon juice, loads of odd ingredients in it but I thought what the hell and grabbed 5 cartons. It certainly looks interesting in the DJ...

I went expecting to meet the nice lady that sells cheap DJs but sadly she was a no show but during my wandering I did pickup a box of brewing bits. Inside I found: 2 Thermostatic heaters, sadly glass cracked on one but I saved the element. 5 Hand corkers. 1 Crown Capper 4 Trial Jars 10...

I was just over on another forum and Wurzel had posted a link to degassing methods and mentioned he used a vacuum method. This got me thinking and with a little tinkering I've created my own IDDs (Improvised Degassing Devices) from two regular drilled bungs, a spare piece of tubing and a...

4L Lidl Pomegranate Juice Drink 1kg Granulated Sugar 2 tsp Pectolase 1 tsp Yeast Nutrient 1 tsp General Purpose Yeast Mix everything in a DJ. (OG was 1.120) After a few days top up to neck of DJ. Leave to ferment out. (FG was 1.020) Just had a sneak preview of this while taking the FG. At...

I've been having a hard time bottling my wines, largely down to family and friends inability to drink fast enough. :D But the gods have smiled upon me, one of the very nice teachers (in a schoool I look after the IT systems for) has taken pity on this poor wretch. Her husband owns a few greek...

I put beer into my 'new' cornie 3 days ago and left it alone (so as not to be tempted), when I came to look at it today there is sticky beer residue (not loads of it though) all around the Out post. I have 3 thoughts on the cause: I did not dismantle the posts and lube the seals (first time...

Hmm..if I had the room I might be tempted to build one of these :thumb: http://en.sevenload.com/shows/Systm/episodes/YTfri6O-Build-an-Remote-Controlled-Beer-Keg-Systm

Finally managed to assemble all the stuff I needed to follow TS's instructions for preparing a cornie. Cleaning went pretty smoothly, though the cornie wouldn't pressurise with just the steam from a litre of boiling water. Wondering if the little arms on the lid are a bit worn because they...

Just made another 2 gallons of elderflower wine, the lazy way. Based on the Mr Berry's recipe but with a few modifications. 1000 ml of Elderflowers (using the bin bag method to separate the heads) 500g of raisins - blended in the bucket with 6 pints boiling water using an electric blender...

http://winecalc.software.informer.com/ seems quite useful. Sadly the original site is no longer available but you can download it from the link. Credit where due: The Home Winemaking Page http://www.geocities.com/mipeman Michiel Pesgens [email protected] Description ----------- WineCalc...

I haven't tried brewing beer for about 20 years but I've just been given the green light by my girlfriend. My budget is around £100 My first thought was something like: http://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/index.php/complete-woodfordes-starter-equipment-set.html but then I remembered the problems I...

Family came round for a few drinks and takeout last night. They brought me a Rumtopf. :thumb: Looks like its a trip to the supermarket for a few litres of rum, roll on Christmas!!

Looks like my first TC (3L apple and 1L forest fruits) is coming to the end of its fermentation. SG is down to 1.000 and bubbles at less than 1 per minute (yesterday). Going to recheck SG today. What has me completely baffled is the lack of sediment, its a fine dusting on the bottom of the DJ...

Kitchen Gun and Toilet Grenade Being a grumpy old man in training not much gets a chuckle out of me these days, this did though.