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I'm bewing a cherry stout tomorrow. Using a kit as a base. I'm going to add pectolase as I will rack the stout onto a kilo or so of frozen cherries and put it secondary for a few weeks. I'm going to add pectolase to aid with getting the juices out the cherries. Should I add this in primary...

So the mother in laws wedding is due next April and I'm making a couple of brews for it. One is a cherry stout. I'm using a St Peters cream stout kit for it and adding cherries. I was told that sour cherries are best to use , but I can only seem to find dried ones in supermarkets or online. Any...

I've made 3 or 4 different turbo ciders with mixed results. A common thing I've found is that if it's a flavoured cider ( I've done raspberry , mango , and peach, passion fruit and mango. ) the flavouring from the fruit juice has not really come through and the cider can often have quite a tart...

Hi All, i'm back after a break of about a year and a half... My local brew supply shop closed down and also the homebrew club which the owner of the shop started...so when all that happened i lost interest and it became a bit of a headache to get supplies. But i'm back at it! 4 brews on the...

My good lady has requested me to make her some cider since its been a couple of years since i've done any. i'm a little rusty on knocking one up. today i went out and got 3L Don Simon Apple, Mango and Passion Fruit Juice 1L of Tesco Apple, Peach, Passion Fruit and Mango Juice 1L of Tesco apple...

Next year i'll be getting round to building a shed/brewshed in the garden and will be moving the majority of my brewing out there. in the mean time my plans is to start to put together various elements. So today i picked up an old ticket printing machine from work. The great thing about where...

Thought i would upload this whilst ive got the boil on and SWMBO is sitting on the couch complaining that "the whole house stinks of beer". here's a couple of picture of my AG kitchen setup. it shad a couple of minor tweeks since i first started brewing AG a couple of years ago. 18L SS stock...

Gonna do an impromptu brew day tomorrow. Here's what i've got available: 1.3KG of Munich Malt 500g of Vienna malt 1.2kg of Crystal 200g of Wheat malt 150g of Torrified wheat 300g of chocolate Hops: about 100g of each Saaz Hallertau Mittelfruh Motueka Simcoe Willamette East...

Can anyone recommend a kit to buy for adding to my boiler to allow me to control the heat output on one of the elements. basically a potentiometer style controller. Or any info on how any you home brewery builders did your element control? Any info/help much appreciated

In my current stock of grains I seem to have about 3kg worth of Germain Munich malt and was wondering in order to try and get rid of it, isthere any recipes/beer styles that use a lot of Muninch as a base malt? My current set up allows me to do a 12L boil, resulting in about a 10L batch...

I've done a few Turbo ciders and 2 of them have had similar issues. They have both been very bitter after the primary fermentation , and the mango cider I made seems to lack mango flavour. With the bitterness issue , can I add a sweetener as well as adding my priming sugar to each bottle ...

With no kids and the start of a week off from work I decided to get a few wines and ciders on. Coffee wine, tropical punch, cherry wine and mango cider

Over the past couple of days I be cracked open a couple of bottles of my second AG brew with was Maris Otter, crystal and cascade. It tastes lovely, but there is no head whatsoever.... It's only been cold conditioning for about a week and a bit. I would like to make this again, and just wondered...

I've been browsing through an old wine recipe book that my mum gave me today. I've found a barley wine recipe that I would like to do. The recipe calls for 500g of barley. Could I use pearl barley? It's available very cheaply in supermarkets. I'd just stick it in a zip lock bag and crush it with...

Any got 1 or 2 short off cuts of 15mm copper pipe? Around 30cm would be fine.

Did this one yesterday as i realised that my stock is starting lower a bit, so though I would fling on a big batch. At the moment my big batches (15 L +) are extract brews, so I decided to give the Summer Lightning (called Lightning Strikes) recipe off the Coopers Website a whirl. Also a good...

Just opened a bottle of an Amarillo SMaSH I bottled a few weeks back. Straight away after popping the cap it erupts out the bottle in a white foamy fountain of beer lava.... So I'm guessing that it wasn't fully fermented when it was bottled? Or too much priming sugar? I used about a half a...

I've just racked off my turbo Vimto wine. It's quite sweet to begin with then you definitely taste the alcohol. Is there anything I can do to mellow out that strong alcohol kick?

So I finally decided to start doing my own electric brewery build. I'm basing it on the instructables version with some of my own tweaks and ideas. And the plan is to try and make as much as possible from scratch and with little cost. So I started tonight making my own thermofoil wrap for the...

Just found a recipe for an Abbey Ale. The recipe states that you should primary ferment for one week then secondary ferment for 2 weeks. I take it this just means racking the beer off the sediment into a clean FV for a secondary? There are no ingredient additions for the secondary.