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    Best way to glue my own labels to my bottles

    dont know and not interested, they had there one and only chance and i binned the lot, i dont have the time to muck about with stupid computers when theres life to be lead i use pdf labels where you add details to one and the rest change automatically as for the wall paper paste look at this...
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    Best way to glue my own labels to my bottles

    why not buy pre mixed wall paper paste and use a dab of that if you want, i have tried the avery lables but can never get them to print properly on the pages so i dont bother, i just print them out on plain paper and use milk or wall paper paste
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    Tea Bag Wine

    a simple one from the CCCCCCCJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ berry book is 10 tea bags 1250gm sugar 1 tea spood citric acid throw it all in a bucket with 2 litres of boiling water, leave to mash and cool pour into a demi john and top up to the neck line i start mine off at 1035sg and finish it at...
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    aquarium heater

    for the wine i use it inside the demijohns all the time at this time of year i just have a hole drilled in the bung for the cable and its great. for larger containers like 25l and similar size to your beer i would do the same as well, if the hot heater does not kill off all the yeast in...
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    Yeast Extract instead of Yeast Nutrients

    think of it this way, we need as humans to have carbohydrates as well as proteins, nitrogen is the yeasts proteins and the vitamin b and sugar is the carbs side, you have to have both for it to really work very well
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    Yeast Extract instead of Yeast Nutrients

    poor yeast, the nitrogen is the yeasts main food source, so a weak yeast performance or a slow ferment.
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    Yeast Extract instead of Yeast Nutrients

    i find that it does work but i have struggled for the nitrogen side of it
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    How much has wine making changed over the years?

    sorry rincon as usual here the trolls have arrived and its all started to get far far to personal, as usual on this forum people lose track of the question and just target people they dont wish to listen to, now that the trolls have taken it to me verses everyone else and are targeting me...
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    How much has wine making changed over the years?

    craig tube is exactly what i was on about. a self publicist tv start, now i have not watched any of his videos so i wont judge it as good or bad what i am saying is this entertie used to be a face to face discussion held in someones house or village hall, where you can stop the process and say...
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    How much has wine making changed over the years?

    congrats murphysmum on still doing it the non kit way we are a very rare bunch now, what i like to see is the difference the beer brewing has gone through rather than the wine wine has gone from home made to kit based and new people are coming in because of the kits where as beer has gone...
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    How much has wine making changed over the years?

    first up for the mods, i have no intention of talking about distilling but about the rules on it were part of the whole of the rules of uk home brewing compared to other countrys as for tonys quote above , i disagree, i believe a well written book does not age. the books we spoke of earlier...
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    How much has wine making changed over the years?

    cool i never new that, some one did explain to me that as long as you dont distill you can ferment to as high as you like, we just needed to find a yeast that goes to 80% proof, hahahahahahahahah where i would really like to see the home brew industry go forward is new books and or published...
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    How much has wine making changed over the years?

    quite the opposite in fact we are one of the best to brew in, pretty well everywhere else there are a lot more rules. i never knew this untill many years ago i was in the states visiting family when we started on about home brew and the whole years production was only 100 gallons
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    How much has wine making changed over the years?

    just had a look through this out of interest https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/excise-notice-39-spirits-production-in-the-uk/excise-notice-39-spirits-production-in-the-uk i was hoping to be able to tell you how much it costs to become a licensed distiller but theres no figures with...
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    How much has wine making changed over the years?

    yes man has been making wine and beer for thousands of years and in that , most if not all inthe last five centuries have bben taxed or prohibited Pre 1963 you could do wine or beer but you had to pay a brewing permit or licence, it was not much but as with out it you could not buy...
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    kilner beer kit failure

    its hard to judge the kits performance from only one outing but after their kiss off from the customer dont care department there wont be a second one for me personally i put it down to a yeast issue and a very bad taste left behind from the customer dont care department, after posting this on...
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    Water heaters

    its horses for courses, every one wants a fermentation room let alone a fridge, but i could never use a fridge as one even a big one is to small for my lot and secondly i have no space what so ever of a second fridge any where in the house and no where outside for it either i have used brew...
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    How much has wine making changed over the years?

    i would call that one a good start after a while you want to learn why recipes work rather than blindly following them as we all did when we started reading CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCJJJJJJJJJJJJJBBBBBBBBBBERRY if you want to look for two amazing forward thinking men start looking for this one...
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    Any UK bottle sealing wax suppliers?

    i am a bee keeper and have hundreds of recipes heres the one i use for sealing wax try it if you like Envelope Sealing Wax 1/2 oz. weight beeswax 3 oz. weight blonde shellac dry artist's pigment or fresco colors Melt the beeswax in the microwave. Add the shellac flakes and microwave...
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    kilner beer kit failure

    brought the kit from asda and was impressed with its appearance went home and started it off did not personally like the plastic bag as it had many folds and refolds and corners rather than a sealed square bag but thats just me, did not like trying to irrigate the bag clean either as with the...
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