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Hi all. To date I have only brewed ciders and wine yet did a Coopers Canadian Blonde the other week with a honey/sugar mixture. I bottled it in to 1ltr bottles (about 800ml in each) and added two Coopers carbonation drops to each bottle (instructions reckon 2 per 750ml) and after a week and a...

Have got a strawberry ribena and cranberry and a blackberry and apple on the go and have just racked the strawberry one after nearly two weeks fermenting. It tastes very very very very sweet! I have only made them in a 1 gallon demi-john. Should they have been done in a 5 gallon one? I have...

Yep, bought my initial stuff from them and only went for the sugar in the bottles due to my neighbour who does home brew saying you had to to get fizzy drinks. I used a bag of dried elderflower heads, 250grams from recollections, for a 23/25ltr mix and the taste was very strong. I won't use...

Ok. After posting my initial question I went and gave the DJ and damn good shake for about 30 seconds. The buggers been bubbling away for the last few days quite happily now! Set another one off today (Blackberry Ribena with apple and elderflower juice) and again that's doing nothing. Will...

Thanks Moley. No signs of anything happening around the neck of the jar (although it was quite hard to see in a brown demijohn!). Gave it a damn good mix tonight to see if that starts it going. I didn't mix the yeast in after watching a youtube vid that said don't mix yeast in let it sit on...

I know all I have contributed to this forum is questions but there are so many for a beginner so I'll apologise again. I started a strawberry Ribena wine four days ago (using the recipe posted on the wine recipes forum) but to date it hasn't done a thing which I am slightly confused about. Is...

Right, here's the recipe I used for the peach wine. 1.5kg peaches 225g raisins 4.5ltrs water 2 campden tablets 1.1hg sugar 10ml citric acid 5ml tanin 1 sachet yeast +5ml yeast nutrient 5ml pectin destroying enzyme Put peaches (cut in to halfs) in to fermentation bin and mash by hand. Add the...

I know this is quite an old post but it's still on the first page so here goes. This is a recipe I have just used which produced a, well, lively batch to say the least. I ended up using 18 750ml swing top bottles and 3 or 4 plastic bottles. Once the fermentation had stopped I bottled and...

Thanks for the replies. That thought had crossed my mind as well but the recipe states it will keep bubbling once racked off for about a month. No extra sugar to the DJ's. I'll post the recipe later on when home but it's from a book purchased from Waterstones so hopefully it doesn't just...

In the last two weeks I have racked off a melon wine and a peach wine in to 1 gallon demijohns however the fermtation process seems to have stopped completely. I waited for it to stop in the fermentation bucket as per the recipes I followed but they both state that they should continue to...

Hi all. Just stumbled across the forum and it's nice to find somewhere that is quite active (the other one I use you are lucky to get a reply in a week!) as well as having lots of advice and recipes. I have only been homebrewing for a few months and have used a few kits to date but in the last...