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Anyone in the South Wales/West area looking to get into/expand their brewing/wine making hobby, I have decided to call a halt to my fermenting activities, as I keep drinking it all!! I have… 1x king keg top tap 2 x 25 litre fermenting buckets with snap on lids 1 x 25 litre plastic fermenter 1 x...

The title says it all, really. is there some physical restriction that determines maximum hydrometer size? Surely it’s just a weight calibrated to float at known level. For those of us with less than bionic eyesight, it would be so much easier to read the SG off a nice, bright, large...

After several successful batches, my last kombucha batch was very, very cloudy. Despite advice out on the web, it didn’t clear much during second fermentation. the current batch is also very cloudy anyone else experienced this Or have any ideas/suggestions?

Quick question.... I’m about to start off a blackberry wine next week having a amassed quite a few in the freezer now (And we have an Asda delivery next week so need some freezer space!) I’m not sure how many I have yet, but it’s going to make more than one gallon. So, when you add Camden...

I have just bought a load of winemaking kit stuff via gumtree, and it really brought back some memories! It all Boots branded stuff, some of it still in original boxes. notice the price stickers? Does anyone have any tips about getting glass fermentation locks out of bungs? I can...

I’ve been picking blackberries for a few weeks now, popping them in the freezer ready for a blackberry wine. I have seen a few recommendations for adding a few handfuls of elderberries to a blackberry wine as it adds a bit of depth, apparently. I'm out walking the dogs every day, so cover quite...

I was given about 1.5 kilos of damsons recently, so dug around and found a recipie. The SG of The original must was 1.104, and I was worried it might turn out a bit sweet. I strained it into the DJ yesterday (after 5 days on the pulp) and the sg was down to 0.994 already. That’s about 13.7%...

Hi all just wondering if anyone has bought a Festival German Weiss lately. the instructions don‘t seem to quite align with what’s in the box...I have emailed Ritchies, but they’ve not got back yet. I have to admit I thought I was missing one of the two malt pouches, until I realised the...

I have a wineworks merlot kit which didn’t clear following the addition of the kit finings. It was thoroughly de-gassed using a drill & degassing wand before the findings were added. So after a few weeks I used a Harris Vinclear as that’s always worked for me. A few weeks later it still wasn’t...

I have just kicked off an elderflower wine - see here https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/elderflower-wine-kicked-off.82171/ I have two full demijohns bubbling away with a brew that had an SG 1.136 or thereabouts, with (coincidently) a champagne yeast with a claimed tolerance of 18%...

It’s been years since I did an elderflower wine - probably about 30 years I’ve been reccy’ing elderflower trees over that last few weeks, and so went for it an picked a good few elderflower heads this sunny morning while out walking the dogs(no more than 4 heads from any one tree, though) then...

Has anyone used Brewers Droop in Bishopston, Bristol recently? I placed an order with them on 9th April, had no delivery or emails so rang them on 16th April and they said the delivery was due in on that day as they had their deliveries on Tuesdays,and my order should go out the same day...

I’m sure that I have had advice to keep wine at the fermenting temperature when findings have been added. I’m also sure that I have had advice to keep wine cool when findings have been added. I have just racked off 23 litres of merlot which has been sat for 6 days with the finings in, kept at...

hi all I have just spent a few hours degassing 23 litres of merlot, which included an hour or so tidying up after pressing the trigger on the drill a bit too soon and recreating a scene from psycho with red stuff dripping off the walls (and SWMBO’s new coat:() and work area. Not a good start I...

SWMBO bought me a king keg top tap for my birthday. Being a compulsive bodger, I just had to fit a schrader valve and a pressure gauge as seen on this forum and elsewhere on the web. I also swapped the standard tap for a sparkler. I got some tips here about the type of fitting to use for the...

how does everyone keep their equipment sterilised? I have a long plastic Xmas tree storage box ( long enough to fit the siphon tubes in), with about an inch of metabisulphate solution in it. I keep airlocks, plastic bungs, siphon tubing, taps, hydrometer &jar etc. in this, so I can take...

just bottled my 5 gallon Winexpert Vintners Reserve kit. 16 bottles and two demijohns now sat in the garage. It was a 10 litre juice kit, and as an experiment I brewed it with 13 litres of Asda 17p for 2 litres spring water rather than tap water, and it’s been sat in the carbouy for about 3...

Hi all I have recently started winemaking again after a break of about 20 years, and having made a few pretty drinkable attempts in the latter half of 2018, I thought I would also get back into brewing....again after a break of about 20 years. So with a King Keg for a birthday prezzie from...