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Thanks Chippy_Tea. I have done other research and the general feeling is that cider from juice doesn’t need finings as it will fairly quickly clear naturally, so I will give that a go. Cheers mate, Billy

Hi Chippy_Tea, So my cider has now finished fermenting and my final gravity is 0.997 giving my approximately 7% ABV. As I usually do, I tasted the stuff I extracted for the hydrometer reading and I was pleasantly surprised, it tastes reasonable, slightly on the tart side but not overly so. I...

Tried my first bottle on 26 December - yes, I know that it is a short time since brew day on 11 December but it was my first brew and I was keen to find out what I had got. I have to say that I am well pleased with the result - if I asked for a best bitter in a British pub and got something...

Thanks for the information Chippy_Tea and for the article, at the moment this is fermenting mightily once it comes to a halt I will taste it and try to salvage it. Given that the apple juice cost me 10 Euros and the cranberry juice 2 euros, I think I can afford to lose 12 euros and then try...

Hi all, Really interesting thread and I have just read all 12 pages of it. So, strong tea... what is it for and what effect does it have on the finished product? Yesterday I put on a batch 10 litres of apple juice and one litre of cranberry, half a pack of MJ cider yeast. OG from hydrometer...

Hi Stuart, So did you add both priming sugar and gelatine both dissolved in the same water to the bottles or did you add them separately. If separately, did you add the gelatine after filling the bottles? I have my first brew in the fermenter now and it is clearing but slowly. Fermentation...

I don’t have the facilities to cold crash my beer - no special fridge for the fermenter and nowhere to put it if I did have one. The nearest I could come to cold crashing is putting the bottles in a fridge. If I dissolve the gelatine in the one 50 g of water, add the priming sugar and dissolve...

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No sooner do I finish posting but my fermentation picture decides to put in an appearance, this was taken 17 hours after the transfer to the fermenter

Thank you Boondoggle

I had my first brew day on Friday. I am using the Grainfather G30, a Grainfather sparge water heater and a Fermzilla fermenter without the pressurisation kit. The photos show my kit and my first brew day. I am brewing an all grain British style best bitter to my own recipe: 4 kg Maris Otter...

Many thanks for the reply chesters-mild

Hi all, I am getting ready to brew my first all grain batch, using a Grainfather 30 and fermenting in a Fermzilla 27 litre without pressurisation. This is also my first batch of home brew since about 1980 when I made a few kit batches. Once I take the fermentation to the point where all the...

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