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    The Wine Loft, St Helens.

    Not sure if people already know this, but The Wine Loft is still trading, I jumped on a bus to St Helens from Leigh today for emergency yeast- glad I didn’t read this thread first 😃 Opening times are limited and you have to buzz to be let in, the lovely helpful lady did say they’d been having...
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    No hydrometer

    Thank you all. I shall start getting my bottling gear ready.
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    No hydrometer

    Hi, I have a MYO stout that is almost ready for bottling. It's been fermenting for three weeks now, and the SG was down to 1.014 on Monday. Yesterday I started another brew in my second FV, and when I was washing my equipment afterwards I dropped my hydrometer - it's now in very many pieces in...
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    Sugar recommendation.

    Thank you.
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    Sugar recommendation.

    Afternoon, I’ve got a very near the BB date Simply Ginger Beer kit and I wanted to get it brewing this week, but it recommends brewing sugar in the instructions and I don’t have any, and nor does anywhere else it seems. Can anyone who’s brewed this (or similar) recommend the best alternative...
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    Quickest (2-3 weeks?) & Most Drinkable Brew With Limited Equipment

    Luckily read this just before I went for my essentials shop today so picked up some cartons. Do you top up after the yeast gets going, or is the recipe just for 3L of wine? Also, does it matter what yeast I use? I think I've only got some Gervins sparkling wine yeast in.
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    What did you brew today?

    Last night I started a MYO stout - my second go at a beer kit. It was my birthday this week so I've treated myself to a Brewferm Oranje Bock and a Cooper's Stout kit, and my daughter bought me the MYO. I made my first kit (the MYO American IPA) exactly as per the recommended ingredients, but...
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    How to add Golden Syrup

    Do you just add it like for like in place of the brewing sugar?
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    Priming with syrup

    Fantastic. How much syrup did you use? That sounds lovely. I'm just getting started with kits at the moment but when I get to the stage I feel ready to have a go at creating recipes I'll have to give something like that a go.
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    Priming with syrup

    Rhubarb Saison sounds lovely. I see you're in Bolton, let me know if you want any Rhubarb later in the year :) Thanks for the answer, that's what I thought. I might still try a couple of bottles with it - I do tend to have a lot all through the summer. But won't expect too much.
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    Priming with syrup

    I got started in brewing because last year I had a bumper crop of rhubarb, and needed something to do with it - Rhubarb wine went very well. One of the other things I do with it is make a rhubarb syrup, which I add to sparkling water for a rather lovely drink. I was thinking yesterday whether I...
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    Bottling... blimey,

    Thank you Terry, I think my siphon problem was just down to new brewer lack of preparedness. I've made rhubarb wine before, and had an auto-siphon. It wasn't long enough, so I ended up swapping to a different siphon and disturbed too much of the sediment. It was looking clear before my...
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    Bottling... blimey,

    So I did my first bottling of my first beer kit today. I think I'd better treat it as a learning exercise... Some things I learned - I need an FV with a tap - siphons suck. Prime first, not as you go along. That will get messy. Make sure you have a beer poured ready. Coffee is not good...
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    What did you brew today?

    Started my very first beer kit today - the IPA from The Range.
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    Wanted bottles

    . I'm in the same situation, so I asked at a local pub a week ago - they're saving me some empties and are asking the landlord if it's okay for me to take a few plastic crates to keep them in. So well worth a shot
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    * October Give Away * It's MASSIVE!

    Yes please, I'm in.
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    Hello from Lancashire

    Hello there, nice to be here. I'm completely new to the world of home brewing. I have a massive rhubarb plant in my back garden, and being the only person who likes rhubarb in my house I needed to find something to do with it. So I put a post on Freecycle and ended up with 5 demijohns and a...
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