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Afternoon all. I've just spotted this: https://www.vidaxl.co.uk/p/250465/wine-warmer-water-boiler-25l boiler for £49 and was wondering if it would be useful to use as a boiler. As always, I'm on a real tight budget so the price looks damn good. Could it be re-purposed? Thanks for any...

Evening all. Over the past 4 years or so I've made around 300 gallons of wine, 400 gallons of cider and 200 gallons of kit beer. I'd like to do AG, but with 5 of us in a 2 bed maisonette it just isn't on the cards. So; looking through the forum I seem to think there's a middle way. I.E. to...

Short version: Laid my mum to rest today. She passed on on the 30th December at 11:15. On her anniversary I want the best wine or mead. Would you give me your best recipe?

I have 3 new wines on tonight, but the hydrometer's gone ping :( To this end, would one of you be able to give me an idea on gravities for the following (if you could also show me how to work it out, that would be very helpful...) Wine 1, Cheats Elderflower... 1 ltr Rio Doro WGJ (151g sugar)...

Is it possible? :hmm:

So I have a new press which was christened today. 1 1/2 hours collecting apples; 2 hours cutting, crushing crushing and pressing 1/2 of them has given me 3 gallons so far. Aiming for 18-24 gallons by next monday. But... Once this is all done, I don't want to put the press away for a year...

Just been forraging and hit an idea, but I'm going to need some help. The basic premise is to make a mead out of the 'edible' parts of 'sacred' trees etc. My recipe so far is; 1/2 kg sloes (Blackthorn) 1/2 kg rowan berries 1kg hawthorn berries 6-12 oak leaves for tannin 1.8 kg honey 1 1/2 tsp...

http://www.thenaturalway.ie/Manuka-Health-Manuka-Honey-MGO400-500g-9421023620074/ :o

Obviously, I've made one which has now had a little sugar and some brandy added. It's very red... I've read (probably in CJJ) that I need to oxidise it. To this end, I've removed the water from the bubblers. The question being; how long do I oxidise in this way for? It's a tad scary when you...

It's the 18 litre one from selections. Can anyone point me in the direction of how to use the blummin thing?? I've also got one of those Vigo bucket things...

Simple one really... I'm getting a new cider press shortly after some friendly donations. I need to make a massive batch as repayment. My pressure barrel is currently empty... Is it possible / advisable to brew in the barrel? :wha:

Just another idea that I wonder if anyone had tried... I've just finished conditioning a Munton's Dockland Porter, and it's blummin lovely. Previous attempts were a St Peter's IPA which was very nice and a Wherry which didn't work too well for me. (brewer and not brew I would expect. Any way...

I'm wondering about Ideas to improve a Turbo Cider. I've made about 40 gallons of the stuff now, and though if it's aged well (which I'm all but incapable of doing) it very good, I still feel it's lacking a little bit. I've had a couple of ideas to try and work on this with the fact that I'm...

Hi chaps. I wen't forraging at the weekend for Blackberries. I got about 10 lbs. Last night I was chatting to a neighbour who has a gorgeous elder and managed to get 8 lbs of berries from him. So... I have pulped 3.9 kilos of elderberries, 2 kilos of blackberries and 1/2 a kilo of...

Well, what a busy weekend. I've managed to snaffle 8lbs of blackberries, 2lbs of raspberries, 1lb of Strawberries and 10lbs of greengages and 1/2lb of blueberries. All for our favourite price!! Will be grabbing a whole bunch of elderberries during the week. :party: Looks like the move away...

I'm on my third kit. So far I've done a St. Peter's IPA (very nice), a Wherry (which I found dissapointing) and now a Docklands Porter (eagerly awaited). I have very little budget and space, so can't see me going down the AG route for some time. I have, however, read a bit about the 'Tea Bag'...

A week ago I started two kits. One strawberry and one elderflower. Went back yesterday to check on progress. Strawberry is doing very nicely, but the elderflower was already clear!! Thing is, there was no sediment :wha: On checking I realised that I had added the stabaliser instead of the...

I've now done about half a dozen or so kit wines. My idea was to get a general feeling af the process and get somethings that mature a little quicker on the go before progressing. Now, I'm looking to do that progression. I want to continue with a few kits (to keep drinking stocks up) but move...

Made up a lovely batch of TC. I added about 1/2 KG of sugar to 5 gallons to push it to about 5.5 - 6%. Thought that would be great. Tasted lovely. I decided to back-sweeten and flavour about 2 gallons of it for friends who like fruit ciders. So... I added about 100ml of fruit syrup to each of...

Being new to this whole thing, and being low on space, I was wondering if anyone has any space saving ideas they've found useful? I've managed to make space for 2 5 gal FVs and 4 DJs. Trouble is, with lead times, I'm finding that demand is far outstripping supply.