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  1. Backtobrew

    Great British Beer Festival

    And you have to pay for someone to drink your booze. What a swiz that one is. Get paid and get p*****d
  2. Backtobrew

    Football Season 2022/23.

    Looking forward to the start of the season myself. Don`t go now but still keep a keen interest when it`s on TV. I have been watching some of the old games that used to be televised on ITV and Granada with Brian Moore and Gerald Sindstat, think the spellings wrong, 70`s and 80`s games. The state...
  3. Backtobrew

    Holiday

    I am all in favour of the security checks on passports and in the airports before you step on the plane and return home as it is in everyone`s interest to ensure safe travel. The stamps and dates in the passports are checked to ensure you have not exceeded the time spent in EU countries under...
  4. Backtobrew

    Holiday

    The people who voted leave and are still resident in Spain should have there heads checked.
  5. Backtobrew

    Holiday

    Brexit in the main to blame and GB insisting on the border being on this side of the channel and us being classed as a third country. Visas were requested from the airline companies for foreign workers with clearance who had returned home and this was dismissed by the Transport Secretary as...
  6. Backtobrew

    Supermarket Juice Wine How To guide and Recipes.

    I have used this a few times and get a pretty decent result; 1 Litre Cranberry 1 Litre Red Grape 1 Litre Apple and Raspberry. You could just use Apple instead of the last mixed juice which I am going to do this week. It`s quite a nice summer drink when chilled or add a couple of ice cubes...
  7. Backtobrew

    Prune Juice Wine

    Klaus, I did this one 2 years ago and still got a couple of bottles left and it turned out quite nice, 1 litre Red grape-Asda 1 Litre prune-tesco 1/2 litre of Apple 443gm of Raisins Tsp pectolase 1/2 tsp tannin 1 tsp yeast nutrient Gervin universal yeast Sugar Started SG @ 1.120 Finished 1.006...
  8. Backtobrew

    Raid on illegal Bolton distillery

    Chippy they should do but the downside would be but the tax the bastards would put on it would make it cheaper for the dealers to keep going.
  9. Backtobrew

    Raid on illegal Bolton distillery

    The government will allow anything to be sold as long as they get the tax on it.
  10. Backtobrew

    So who's growing chillies 2021?

    The wife bought me a plant last year and had a good few off them. I dried a few on the radiator and put them away. Got one out earlier this year and took the seeds out, put them in an egg carton with a bit of compost, watered and left on the kitchen window cill. All the seeds grew and had...
  11. Backtobrew

    You couldn't make it up.

    There’s plenty of shi** under the M53 in Wirral
  12. Backtobrew

    Plum Wine - Help!

    Damsons are great for making wine and follow what you have done with the plums. Last time I made it was probably 30 years ago and left it for well over 12 months before I touched it, lovely taste.
  13. Backtobrew

    So who's growing chillies 2021?

    Hard to catch and harder to train.
  14. Backtobrew

    So who's growing chillies 2021?

    Shirley, I have grown 8 plants from a dried chili off last years plant. All grown at various sizes and early on I had the same problem. I used to spray them with soapy water but never got shut properly so now I wet my hands in soapy water and rub the leaves and squash the little s****. Seems to...
  15. Backtobrew

    Supermarket Juice Wine How To guide and Recipes.

    HI all, I have been using the Wilko yeast with a spoon of their yeast nutrient and have had decent results so far with no issues over the past months.
  16. Backtobrew

    Redundancies.

    I was made redundant in March from the construction industry just as the outbreak was in commencing. OAP in December so will leave any job applications for those that have families. Other people have suffered the same fate since. Wife in retail and worked through but the company(has a homebrew...
  17. Backtobrew

    Wine question re supermarket juice

    Will do Chippy. It hadn't moved in the airlock as far as I can tell but I was wondering after I bottled it whether I should have added stabiliser. They have had a good shake twice today and will do the same later on. Cheers
  18. Backtobrew

    Wine question re supermarket juice

    Bramley4600, I have just bottle my first Orange/Pineapple as below. 1 litre Orange, Lidl Naturis 1 litre Pineapple, Tesco Added the sugar content of both and it gave 215 grammes so added 485 g sugar as syrup to take to 600g. SG read 1.070 Pectolase, wilko yeast and nutrient, tsp each in Fv...
  19. Backtobrew

    Coopers larger is flat

    Obscure, Thanks for the reply. It's about 30 years since I last brewed any beer and need to catch up on a lot of things. Cheers
  20. Backtobrew

    Coopers larger is flat

    Glad I read this thread as I have wilko cervesa ready to brew. Excuse my ignorance gents but what is the benefit of priming with brewing sugar over granulated.
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