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Anyone do this? I have 2 x 20 ltr batches i am trying to filter as both have lots of 'sediment' in suspension. One is a wow with red grape juice and the other is a pure red both made from cartoned red grape juice etc but both are really cloudy and not clearing. So i thought i would have a go...

spotted this online - http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... -puff-beer :cheers:

Here we go - bare with me as i get this together as its a PITA trying to do a long doc. So you want to malt your own grains? i have to do it as no local home brew shops anywhere near me and the only one that does sell them invariably dont have them in stock. Theres normally two growing seasons...

Just got this going today - Licorice Cider 100g Shredded Licorice Nutrient tablets vitamin B1 x 3 or use Andrews liver salts 2 t spoons Mixed acid blend - citric - malic - tartaric 1 t spoon Clearzyme - breaks down pectin, and starch which may cause hazy brews 500g Sugar 2 x 1ltr cartons of...

Made a 1 gall batch of this a while ago and it went down a bomb and was lovely. Then i made up a 5 gall batch and to be honest its turned out a bit insipid, cloudy and very bitter tasting? I can cure most of it as i have just added a ltr of vannila syrup and a ltr bottle of myers rum but still...

Think the prices are high in UK - Just found a commercial site here in Turkey supplying - hop extract, malt, malt extract powdered form and malt extract in liquid form. http://magaza.hammaddeler.com/Bira-Malz ... 7-2_4.html Hop extract - £89.36 for 1kg!! :shock: Malt - £36.84 for 25kg...

Washed quite a lot of bottles in my time so have a few tips n tricks to pass on. First up those pesky plastic type labels that wont come off and leand a sticky gooey mess if yoy scrape the label off - one way is to use WD40 to get rid of the residue and then rinse off, another is to use a hair...

Really bogged off this morning. After watching my neighbour completely ruin his grape crop and make pekmez with the juice i then saw him doing the same to his pomegranetes so figured i would ask him for some juice to try it as a wine. I have seen online some recipes but they all extract the...

Anyone had a malolactic fermentation from a Port? Just checked mine its been in the dj for about a month now as was still fizzing but noticed on checking today some small white spots appearing on the top? Does it need a malolactic at all? May just rack it and add campdens. :thumb:

Infections and or wine and beer problems. Just thought i would start this off as we dont seem to have a topic or thread to address this. I'm pretty sure most of us at one time or another will have encountered some problem with our brews, so i think we should have a thread on here to discuss them...

Well over here we had a few days of rain in July which nicely watered the garden and brought the Grapes on big time so much so i have now harvested my two vines and nicked a few bunches off a vine crawling up a tree out the back of my place. All initially crushed by SWMBO in her neatly...

Going to have to chuck my two latest brews down the pan as bottled yesterday and now i notice theres an infection in all the bottles from both brews. Think the heat over here has caused it - its been upto 58c recently although i had both the primary and 2ndry fermenters in the bath. Somethings...

Did a double brew day yesturday in 40+c temps got burnt too lol. First up was a london pride turned out fine except slight drop in projected SG which i sorted with a kg of sugar and hit the mark spot on. Got all that sorted then moved on to a Tetleys clone, (someone ordered it for his birthday...

Bugger had to bin my latest batch of London Pride! did this one differently by adding hops post boil but i checked em in the FV and left it to do its thing. Racked it off a week ago and only got around 15ltr it did look ok so i thought - went to start bottling ands it was disgusting, white...

Crikey with the temps here in the mid 40's this week i'm having probs with all my bottled stuff. Its all been bottled quite some time now but this last week i have had 3 bottle bombs! 2 x alcho water that was as flat as a f**t a month ago and a mead which i also tried over a month ago now and...

Just picked up my latest 25kg batch of raw barley from local supplier. I paid 25 TL for it last time as i sent a turk m8 to get it. This time i went and its my next door neighbors place and the son speaks good english, he asked me how much i paid last time so i told him. He got his calculator...

Anyone tried this - the greeks make it all the time and you can but it over there and i can get it in Turkey too. Had a go at it last year and tbh it turned out minging :sick: So this year did another version 30ltr barrel stuffed with vines and leaves 500g of white mulberry fruit chucked in 20...

Anyone else having yeast problems at all? Reason i ask is so far this year i have had quite a few problems with dried yeast bought online from shops in uk and sent out to me in Turkey. I have to do it that way as no other way to get stuff here but i am begining to think i am not getting the...

Anybody seen a guide or a how to for this. Just spent a couple of hours with search and going through all the how to's but not found anything? I'm looking for a guide that uses phosphoric acid solution and the dilution ratios etc. I was going to buy some of the acid from UK and have it shipped...

Guy's i have been asked to make a Tetleys clone ale! OK stop laughing!, i did a search on the net and anyone who asked for it got a massive slating pmsl! Anyway i have a recipe from one of my books so will use that (i dont drink the stuff anyway) but two questions, 1 it calls for one of the hops...