Search results

Welcome. I'm in Harpenden. Presume you get your supplies from the grumpy chemist at the top of the high st. :)

If you only made a gallon I'd be tempted to keep it in bulk storage and see how it tastes after a few months.

Use a sweetener such as Splenda or any of the supermarket own brands. I just add it a tablespoon at a time mix and taste until you reach your desired level of sweetness.

Made this morning: 20L of Aldi Cloudy Apple juice (not from Concentrate) 10 Bramley Apples juiced then pulp and juice added 500ml of strong Earl Grey tea (brewed with 8 bags) 3* 1lb jars of Aldi honey 5 tsp Malic Acid 5 tsp Pectolase Youngs Cider Yeast. Bottled my last one after 2 months...

I've just bottled 2 gallons of White Grape juice and cranberry (Lidl) and it is a light rose colour.

a little bit of mine

It will be fine leaving it for a week extra whilst you are on holiday. Many years ago when I was a teenager my friend and I bought a cheap lager kit. We came into the garage after fermentation had finished to find a trail of ants leading up to and into our bucket with loads of dead ones...

I have 3 gallons bubbling away now (added 1L of red grape juice to each) Can anyone tell me whether this benefits from the addition of Glycerin?

It was ok. The sugar went to liquid after a couple of stirs and about 2 hours in the rhubarb

Interesting experiment. Will look forward to hearing about the results. As a 'sufferer' of Asparagus pee I can see this being lethal in that department.

I'm defrosting 6kg of rhubarb in the morning to get mine going. Now I've got loads of granulated sugar knocking around at the moment. Is that going to break down OK with the rhubarb?

My mother-in-law came round yesterday holding 4kg of rhubarb from her allotment and asked me if i wanted it. Guess what I'm making this weekend.

Personally I'd give it another go with the finings and use the medium/heavy dose. You've nothing to lose and if it doesn't work you know they are past their best. Let us know how it goes though as I use Youngs finings kits and hadn't noticed the use within 6 month thing.

My wood skills are pretty good but not sure they are up to making screw threads :)

I worked in Moscow until last year. My most jaw dropping round was "3 pints of Guinness please". "Certainly, that'll be £27 please"

Like the photos. I'm going to use great big bits of green oak so the frame shouldn't be a problem. If I go the jack route then just need to find a fairly substantial piece of metal to attach to the frame to act as a pressure plate. I wonder if you can get a screw thread more robust than the...

Cheers for that. I see what you mean about it not being able to sustain the pressure of a bottle jack.

Going to make my own cider press ready for this years crop. I was originally going to make one that would utilise a bottle jack but thought it would be better to use a proper screw. Does anyone know where I can buy just the screw mechanism?

Nice post, thanks.

I leave all of my kits a minimum of 2 weeks regardless of what the instructions say. I'd leave it at least another week and let it finish fermenting.