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Hello, I'm trying to get my head around using a hydrometer. I understand taking original and final readings, I think. What I'm having a little head scratch over is this, when you use a starch in wine like rice, and you use amylase to digest the rice, is there a way of accounting for this...

Hello, I've noticed that a lot of us are frugal types who dislike waste. As such, I like to not see things unnecessarily go in the bin. I recently made some wine for Christmas out of mincemeat. Today, after seeing the leftover fruit in my fridge for far too long, I decided to make a quick...

Hello, Okay, so recipes often call for raisins. Can I assume that it's ok to switch them for sultanas or currants? Have you ever done this? What happened? I can take a guess that it will be ok and not make a huge difference to the final outcome. Has anyone done this? M

Last month after a bit of scrumping i made some apple and blackberry cider. No precise recipient but this is it there abouts 7kg apples juiced, but I threw in the pulp and juice About 300g blackberries 2kg sugar Pectolase Yeast nutrient Champagne yeast We didn't have the volume that we...

Hello all, I have heard of some of you talking about using artificial sweetners after a brew has finished fermenting and it's too dry. Has anyone tried the stevia? I know that technically it's not artificial. Does anybody know it starts up the brewing again like sugar, or is in inert...

Hello, I recently put a couple of gallons of rice wine into a secondary fermentation vat, but my beautiful boyfriend quipped that I didn't cook the rice. I didn't think I was meant to. Was I? Do you boil the rice? My recipe didn't mention it. Meryl

Hello, I've been scratching my beard thinking of doing a variant on gibbet beer. I was thinking of adding ano the spice, perhaps cardamon or fenugreek but I don't want a strange carbonated curry drink. Has anyone done something like this? How did it go? Meryl

Hello all, I notice with a fair amount of glee that my neighbours fig tree is hanging over the car park and is quite bounteous. Has anyone made wine with figs? What was it like? I can't stand the thought of having to bake something as I don't like to bake because we don't have a...

Hello, I'm Meryl from Salisbury, most of my family has done home brew at some time, most famously my Grandfather who was quite prolific, my Mum and Uncle were still drinking his hard work 10ish years after his death. I did a couple of kits last year, but have got quite serious about home...

Hello, My nice neighbour let me pick all her redcurrants, so of course wine was made. After a week in the brew bucket where the air lock was regularly ticking away, I transferred it to a demijohn and nothing. Flat as a witches tata. What should I do? Everything else I have is...

I'm without a compast bin so I'm not sure what to do with the rice and mixed fruits left over after the first fermentation of rice wine. Now that I see it in a colander it seems a bit if a waste to chuck it away. Does anyone have any novel ideas of what to do with this stuff? I see that...