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So what drinks to you personally invent, or unusual ones that you love. Like your Bloody mary with lemon juice and rum. Or a Black Russian with pickled eggs or something. Just random stuff you have tried, bonus points for awesome names!

Is it okay to store a few wines in those big coke bottles? No problems with plastic distorting the taste or anything?

Hey guys, long time with no brewing :oops: Now ive got a terrible looking wine on the go. If you dont know what a kiwifriut is, its also known as a zespri. Its a furry brown looking thing, very strange. :wha: But with green flesh. I used this recipe (if you can call it that) 4cups juice from...

Everytime i add yeast to my wines or various other high alcohol brews, it seems to go apesh!t and bubble out the airlock. Whats the best way around this?

Large Brewery i stumbled across. very commercial. Feel free to drool over the massive SS tanks! :thumb: Link: http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010 ... more-28450 A few pics: I reckon if we put our backs in to it, we could polish off one of those barrels :hmm: :drink: :drink: :drink:

Well i fugure this belongs here. Not sure how many of you have seen it but here you go: From project start: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bender/index.html To finish: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bender/page4.html And for those of you too lazy to click links: Quite cool, not my build though :(

Ok, i have a plan for a future brew. Maybe in 3 weeks or so, might get this rolling. High Coco Chocolate has about 21000kj per 100g. So about 600g per a 2.1L brew should give a warm 20% brew. Recipe: High Coco Chocolate---600g (3 blocks) 2L water half a small packet of yeast Thoughts? and any...

Are there any tricks to using a activated charcoal filter like this: from here http://www.homebrewcentregy.com/Distill ... ables.html i dont want to fork out nearly $180NZD for the glorified stand, so i got the filter part, and figure i'll knock some thing together. Do you guys carbon...

Whats a decent all-rounder yeast? Some thing that doesnt alter the taste of things too much,and can survive up to about 14%ABV. Or there abouts As long as its better than this horrid Turbo Spirits Yeast :sick: I plan on doing a bit of Cider, Fruit wines, And a some odd-ball things :D ANy...

So im bright and early in the southern Hemisphere for thinking about cider, but i was going to do some last year.......... :oops: :cry: So this year, bright and early! i have an orchard full of apples available, but the catch being that they are cooking apples. Commonly used for stewing, they...

Ok well most of you would pooh-pooh this, but what the hey :party: I used 2.1L of Fanta 500g of sugar 20mLs of Standard Turbo Yeast Not really wine by any stretch :? , i just heated the Fanta to remove preservatives, then added the 500g of sugar to dissolve in the boiling Fanta. The Fanta...

Anybody made a fermenting cupboard? I mean something i can plug in out in the shed, keeps the heat warm and stores my varoius fermenting wines and whatnot. Like a backwards fridge i guess. What temps are good for fermenting? My yeast packet tells me 16'C-25'C Is this about right? Also any...

Has anyone tried to make their own demijohn? I mean, i have a few stanless steel buckets and tanks lying around, and im handy with a welder 8-) So i figure instead of shelling out $40 for a demijohn + Postage and handalling, ill make my own for free-ish. Airlock bung might be a problem though. :?

Hi im greencheapsk8 from New Zealand Just saying hi to everyone here. Personally, im a kilju brewer. Im sure you guys know that proper name for sugar wine. Im planning to do a shift to crude rum soon, and maybe branch into some fruity kilju. My fermention chamber is small, only 2.5L , but...