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I was wandering around Tesco the other day and saw they had bags of 1.5kg mixed "imperfect" frozen summer fruits. (I've frozen rasps etc. That are all broken). Appeared to be a mix of rasps, brambles,red and black currants and possibly strawbs. Was only a couple of quid per bag. I wondering...

Apologies if this is such asked question. You may be aware of the huge difficulty I'm having getting anything to ferment out. I was looking on eBay for a different wine yeast. I saw one description for the Young's dried active yeast that I've been using and it said that's it's only really...

Hi guys. Today is three weeks bottled for my Cooper's real ale. After zero carbonation after 7 days, I've left it alone, still in the living room for a further two weeks. Today is three weeks bottled so stuck a bottle in the fridge this morning and have just opened it. Same again, zero...

Given the time of year, you get quite a lot of reduced soft fruit at the superb, strawberries and raspberries mostly. You never seem to get more than a punnet or two at a time though. What are the general thoughts on freezing them and using them defrosted? I know raspberries don't change...

As per title, has anyone ever tried or seen recipes for fuscia berry wine? I always have a huge abundance and quite like snacking on them. Would be interested in experimenting

Okay, I'll apologise for the poor pun in the title from the get go haha. I've just transferred my ginger wine into a demijohn and tested the SG which was 1.600. I thought this seemed a little high after around ten days in primary and a vastly slowed down bubble rate. The 5 gallon batches I...

Hello all. Yesterday I bottled my first batch of what used to be my standard house wine since I restarted home brewing. An elderflower wine. It's a very simple "recipe". 1x 23l white wine kit (usually a 7 day Chardonnay) and dried elderflowers. The dried elderflowers get thrown in during...

Hi guys, I bottled a batch of Cooper's real ale made with brew enhancer and primed with carbonation drops. It is my first homebrew beer that I've ever bottled. Previously I've always brewed straight into the pressure barrel. Due to a non-delivered bottle capper and the delays that caused, the...

I've had a busy few days of home brewing. One of the jobs that were needing doing was racking the nettle wine and the gorse wine. The nettle wine had a pretty furious fermentation in the bucket and went steady when moved to the demijohn and had started to clear and threw a decent sediment...

Hi guys. I'm going to be putting on another few batches of country wines which will need stirring in the bucket every day for a week or so. My last few batches I've had a spare bucket with water and steriliser powder in (troclosene sodium disodium metasilicate according to the label, Young's...

Apologies all if this is a regularly asked question. After the disaster with the cider leaking out of the keg, I have decided to bottle the batch of beer that's on just now. It's just a kit beer, Cooper's real ale made with brew enhancer. To make things even easier as a first time bottler I'm...

Gave the pear cider its first taste last night after a month or so maturing. Rather nice if I don't say so myself. Not quite carbonated enough but a nice deep flavour, almost scrumpy-like. Very nice. I got the new caps to use the capsules with so I let the pressure out of the barrel and...

There used to be a homebrew shop fairly local to me in Forfar. It was still 25 miles away but had everything you could need and you always got good conversation with the owner and always spent a fortune. This was my only source of CO2 and when the shop closed down I basically stopped...

As an easy reintroduction into wine making, I made a 23litre blueberry wine kit. The box wasn't branded as such but had garffen.co.uk under the barcode. I actually thought I stopped it a little early as it was a little too sweet tasting. I can't remember offhand the hydrometer reading but it...

Hi guys. One of the main reasons I stopped making beer was the closure of my local homebrew shop quite some years ago. I mainly made kit beers and brewed straight into the pressure barrel. I never bottled for two reasons, I'm not a fan of cloudy beer and I could never get enough bottles to...

Hi everyone. New member from Perthshire here, although not new to home-brewing. For quite a few years I had a conveyor belt of elderflower "house white" brewing... 5 gallons fermenting for a week, while 5 gallons "aged" for the week and another 5 gallons was drunk in the week. This was using...