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Those are very interesting. Thanks for typing all that out. How much wine are those recipies yielding? Can I brew them in a 5l glass demijon?

I'm intreagued. What is this dry extraction method? I might be able to get a large quantity of fresh strawberries and would like to brew something with them. I have standard brewing equipment (30l plastic FVs and 5l glass demijons). Can I used dry extraction in these? So I put the fruit...

Well the airlock has been bubbling quite furiously, but has started to slow down so I thought it was worth lifting the lid to check things out. The brew started at 1.060 SG on Tuesday night and has reached 1.020 by Saturday morining. So according to the Homebrew Forum calculator that's 5.3 %...

Well I've started the brew now with a few modifications. I really didn't want a very hoppy beer, so steeped the hops tea bag included in the kit for a reduced time. The directions were a bit vague but the reccomended 40 minutes of boiling seemed very long. I've added 500g of dark spraymalt...

Hello All I've successfully brewed a a few batches of beer this year and am feeling confident to try and make a few modifications to the ingredients to get a beer more to my taste. I've bought a kit from Brupack called Almondbury Old. Here is a weblink with the description...

Thanks for that I've heard a few people mention adding artificial sweetner to sweeten their wine. I would prefer to use more conventional means of sweetening my wine. I would worry it would give it a funny tast. So what is the benefit of using an artificial sweetener? Is it just so you...

I too am brewing this same wine as my first ever wine kit. Mine is not quite ready to bottle so I'll comment on the wine once it ages a little. I agree that the directions were certainly very clear, although mine looks set to complete the process quicker than indicated. It just fermented...

Thanks for that. There is a "pick your own" strawberry farm on the way to work, but judging the way that the fruit is ripening in my tiny garden I cant imagine any farmed strawberrys will be ready any time soon. I would sort of prefer raspberrys because they just seem a bit more tart and a bit...

Thanks all Those are good suggestions. I'm considering the idea of a fruit wine. Raspberrys and strawberrys will both be in season this summer to enable me to make the brew. The problem is that I have never actually drank any fruit wine, so I have no idea what to expect. I'm also not so...

Hello All While drinking some of my most recent homebrew (St Peter's Golden Ale) with some friends this weekend we decided to set ourselves a brewing challenge. I was wondering if anyone here had any suggestions. We plan to drink the fruits of our labour and "judge" our efforts some time in...

Thanks. That sounds reasuring. I'm really looking forward to drinking my first wine. Just enjoying some St Peter's homebrew Ale while planning what to ferment next!

Hello All I'm in the process of making my first ever wine using a California Connoisseur Savagnion Blanc kit. The fermentation completed in 10 days which is quicker than what the directions offered as a guideline. It started at 1.080 and stopped fermenting at .090 . I've racked the wine for...

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Please excuse these very basic questions. I understand that IPA stands for India Pale Ale, and APA means American Pale Ale, but what's the difference? Thanks Llamapup

Hello I'm fermenting my first ever batch of wine and am wondering what's best for bottling. I have a 19 brown swing top bottles which are .75 L in volume. These are what I have been using for beer. I'll need to find some more bottles, but is there any reason why these won't be good for wine...

Thanks for the replys. Llamapup

Thanks for the reply The kit comes with Potassium Metabisulphate which it suggests to add it at degassing stage and Potassium Sorbate which it says to add at clarifying stage. Are you saying that if I do want dry wine than I should leave out the potassium sorbate? Thanks Llamapup

Thanks that seems like good advice. The kit comes with a sachet of 4g of potassium metabisulpate which it says to add as part of the degassing stage. Does this do the same thin as campden tablets? There were no campden tablets in the kit. Thanks Llamapup

Hello All I'm fermenting my first ever wine (California Connoisseur Savignon Blan). Its bubling nicely in the FV at about 20.3 degrees. The wine started at SG: 1.080. What do I need to do to make sure the wine comes out dry and not sweet? Is it just a matter of making sure the SG gets to...

Right.... I get it now. Do everything short of bottling and just leave it in the secondary FV. That will mean it will be clarifying for about 2 weeks then. The kit comes with a sachet of 4g of potassium metabisulpate which it says to add as part of the degassing stage at day 20. Is this...