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hi all could you give me some advice on dried fruit, it seems every packet you look at as oil added to stop them sticking together doe's this make them unusable for wine making.:)

hi, does anyone use them plastic stoppers when they bottle there wine, if so are the any good

Hi all. don't usually post in the wine section but here goes. don't know if im doing something wrong when bottling but some of my corks pop out of the bottle when corking. anyone know why, does it happen to anyone else and what's the answer.

Just made 23ltrs of dark cascade with what i had in. 1.5 dark LME 1kg larger malt 300g sugar 70g Cascade hops. mashed the larger malt in 3ltrs at 66c in a 2gallon igloo cooler for 1 hour, never lost a degree. batch sparged with 6ltrs at 76c. topped boiler up to 30ltrs and the dark malt and...

Hi. looking for some advice about cleaning my backer elements, is it ok to immerse them in lemon juice and then gently rub them with a pan scrubber or a soft cloth.

hi can anyone tell me if it matters if i use homebrew co2 or co2 for shooting or welding on my mini kegs, just thought how much cheaper the non beer co2 is. :D

Hi all can you help, bought 4 one gallon wine kits two weeks ago and brewed them all together and fermentaion as nearly stopped, now what i wanna know is do i use all 4 packets of potassium sorbate and potassium metabisulphide and 4 packets of isinglass. Tony

My clever wife just bought me a king keg bottom tap barrel in great condition £3 from the hospice shop, what a bargain. :cheers:

Hi hav'nt posted on the wine n cider section of the forum before so sorry to just barge in, i wonder if anyone can help me with a couple of Qs on my port wine. i have used a good quality kit and some vodka and followed some intructions i found on line, can i use the pott sorb that came with the...

Got up early today to brew a stout before my afternoon shift at work. 3k Pale malt 100g black malt 100g choc malt 130g roasted barley 200g crystal malt hops 40g target start of boil 150g lactose last 10 mins of boil 2 spoons drinking choc 2 spoons treacle 200g honey SG 1048- nottingham yeast...

hi, can someone help, i want to fi a dial thermometer to my mash tun, its 1/2 inc bsp, i have the knut and plastic washer but what size copper or brass washer do i order. i ordered some 1/2 washers but they were wrong, hope i dont sound thick. :drink:

Hi all can anyone help. how much water will 10lb of grain absorb in a 90min mash. :drink:

gonna use bottles with some cascade IPA ive made, Question is if i sterilise the bottles friday and put them on my bottle tree will it be ok to bottle sat morning. :drink:

Hi just got a couple cornie kegs, anyone know what size ring spanner i need to buy for the posts. :thumb:

Can anyone help before i do it, got two backer kettle elements and want to cut the holes in my stainles boiler with Qmax cutter, do i need a 40mm or a 38 mm hole

hi, has anyone got a couple of old backer kettle power cords that they dont want or use, i am willing to pay a fair price and postage, its the one with two round and one flat connection.

Hi, I want to batch carbonate 25 litres of AG mild with treacle, anyone done it before if so how much did you use and did it taste ok. :cheers:

Hi, can anyone help me im thinking of buying 25kg of malt extract in bulk to save money, what i need to know is how long will it last once opened and how to store it. :cheers:

:drink: Just got my 50ltr thermo box today only ordered it monday WoW! gonna need some help to fit a ball tap. gonna fit 1/2 inch tap on the side not the base, so i figure the inside hole will be 21 mm, but the outer hole will have to be larger but how much larger, can anyone help :cheers:

Although I’m an AG brewer I sometimes do a kit just to top my store up and save time, recently I was shopping in Morrison’s in Bolton and saw that all the homebrew kits were being reduced. They were all the bargain brew kits that cost £8 and had been reduced to £3.48, I thought at that...