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Yeah it works ok, just looks a bit cumbersome and I find it strange that nobody seems to do a 3/16" barb for quick disconnects! The brass fittings I got were from a company who do air compressors, seems to be conflicting views on using brass in relation to beer, good point about brass taps...

Yes please, love their extract kits!

The way I do it is, connect my beer line to a 3/16" push-fit - 3/8" stem. Put the 3/8" stem into a 3/8" to 1/4" MFL which screws on to the quick disconnect. For my beer it works, though seems more complicated than it should be! For my sparkling wine (45 psi) it leaks everywhere! I've...

Did you manage to get connectors in the end mate? I got one recently and have same issue!

Yeah if it was fermentation temperature related I'd have thought it would affect us all who drink it - my sisters-in-law say my wine give them less headaches than commercial! I'd say for me it's about the same maybe a little less with homebrew. Perhaps something in the yeast, yet he reckons...

My brother-in-law has come to the conclusion that he gets terrible headaches the next day after drinking my homebrew! He's been getting them for a while, but only recently pieced together that he seems to get them after drinking my homebrew. For example on Saturday night he only had a small...

For identification I usually try to use different coloured crown caps on my beer bottles, and little round coloured stickers around 99p for loads including postage from Ebay to identify fermenters / Corneys etc. For the wine labels I've been doing some reading. I did some beer labels once...

Thanks for the replies folks! Mickeywheelspin: I don't really have access to a print room, I think Staples used to have a laser printing service not sure if it applies to labels though, but worth checking. Tony: Do you ever have any problems with paper jams or the toner not sticking to the...

On my beer bottles I'm quite happy to cut out and stick home made ink-jet labels, but I like my wine bottles to look as professional as possible, so I tend to buy pre-made wine labels if there are none in the kit. However the selection available in the UK are pretty poor so I've been buying...

+1 for him being a nice bloke, good prices too

Yeah I read quite a few recipes before I dived in and they tend to make it look complicated, but if you can live with sediment then it can be reasonably straight fwd. One recipe told you to age your base wine for a year first! Champagne/Sparkling wine is one of the commercial drinks I would...

Degassing is done to help clear the wine, the levels of CO2 present after primary fermentation isn't enough to create a sparkling wine. However, if you leave stabilisers out and add priming sugar you can create a sparkling wine through secondary fermentation - but make sure you either use...

If you shop around you can find the Kenridge for around £69. I haven't made that style but their Amarone is Superb! I haven't tried the super-premium Winexpert kits but their Selection Cabernet Sauvignon and Chateauneuf du pape (around £70) are both winners. I have done one...

Not having the space or DIY skills (or leccy in the shed) to build a keezer/kegerator I'm looking at options to cool kegs for the party season next month. The 2 options I'm looking at are either a mini Jockey Box...

Hahaha, yeah the shed is far from air tight, there is a big gap inside the roof, and a few holes in the wall (albeit if I'm righte CO2 is heavier than air so tends to sit at floor level?). But yeah I'm probably worrying too much :)

I've made my first wow using the wilko grape concentrate here http://www.wilko.com/wine-homebrew-kits/wilko-100-white-grape-concentrate/invt/0067533?VBMST=grape%20concentrate I put the whole bottle in, and a litre of apply juice from Tescos. It's turned out really nice to my taste, albeit...

Buckets are easier to clean, wide necks are easier to carry. Other than that, much of a much!

Eek, did your father-in-law survive? Yeah I've placed an order, obviously a lot of people have Cornys with big tanks, so I'll just need to be careful with it.

I had a quick taste of my first ever WOWs when transferring to the secondary. I'm not much of a white drinker these days, but the white (Wilko Grape Concentrate and 1L of Apple juice) tasted fantastic (WOW is an appropriate name!) My Rose, which took 4 days to start bubbling (1L of RGJ, 1L...

I've got one of these ones: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00CY45U5A/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 Works great on all my homemade reds! I tend to use the more expensive kits though so I've not tried it on any of the thinner reds.